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Died. Jessica ("Jessie") Reed, 43, five-times-married Ziegfeld showgirl and once one of the highest-paid chorines in the world; of pneumonia and anemia; as a charity patient in Chicago's Osteopathic Hospital. Same day her daughter Ann Carroll de Brow won a Texas beauty contest...
Today's most prominent serious-minded U. S. dancer is a slim, dark-haired woman named Martha Graham, who 15 years ago left a job with the Greenwich Village Follies to try her foot at higher-browed steps. Ex-Showgirl Graham's first serious show was given in 1926 in Manhattan's 48th Street Theatre, backed by $11.25 which she had saved. A deficit of more than that would have sent her back to the Follies. The box office made a profit ($2) and Martha went...
...Showgirl Lois Andrew Jessel, 16, four-month wife of thrice-married Stagester George Jessel, 42, planned a family of five or six children: "We won't have our first for a year, not until we get to know each other really. We're in love, deeply in love, but we need to get acquainted...
Divorced. Colonel Gonzalo Gomez, 50, urbane slick-haired son of the late dic tator; by fledgling Cinemactress-Showgirl Joyce Mathews, 20; in Chicago; after a twelve-week marriage. Her complaint: Gomez slapped her "slightly" on two occasions...
Married. Auto Scion Horace E. Dodge Jr., 40; and Showgirl Martha ("Mickey") Devine, 27, who once socked Primo Carnera in a Paris night club; he for the third time, she for the first; in Baltimore...