Word: sueur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 19, cinemactor; to Joan Crawford (real name Lucille Fay La Sueur), 21, cinemactress; in Manhattan. Cinemactor Fairbanks is Senior Fairbanks' son by his first wife (Beth Sully), who was only family member present at ceremony. Returned to the Hotel Algonquin Mrs. Crawford-Fairbanks wrote: "Dear Mother: It is but an hour since. . . ." Said Cinemactor Fairbanks; "Our affair was a sweet and romantic one." Too busy, they said, to honeymoon, they returned soon after the wedding to Hollywood to resume work, he with First National Pictures, she with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Neither has been married before...
...them in return, when requested, an autographed bosom and a printed slip stating that she was born in San Antonio, Tex., and educated at a girl's finishing school in Kansas City; that she ran away to Chicago to be an actress, changed her name from Lucille Le Sueur to Joan Crawford after a magazine contest organized to pick a name for her; that she danced for a while at Harry Richman's Club, Manhattan, has won 26 loving cups in dancing competitions; is a good swimmer; has dark hair and brown eyes...
...Suite pour Quinton L. Tomasini M. Marius Casadesus 3. a. Variations L. Mozart b. Sonata A. Scarlatti c. Fileuse H. Desmarest Pour clavecin Mme. Regina Patorni-Casadesus 4. Concert pour Viole d'amour B. Asioli M. Henri Casadesus 5. Un Fete a la Cour des Miracles J. F. Le Sueur...
...Triall by Armes, winding the suave coils of its prose around the mind of a millionaire's daughter who has married a multimillionaire's somewhat fragile son; Good Morning, Major, in which J. P. Marquand accentuates a melodramatic moment in the old army game; Meridel Le Sueur's Persephone; Sherwood Anderson's Another Wife; these stories would finish ahead of the field in any literary sweepstakes. All the other stories are good ones...
...Charles Horace Mayo was born in Rochester in 1865-three years after his father had come there from Le Sueur. He graduated from the Chicago Medical College,* began at once to practice with his father and his elder brother, William J. (born in 1861). The citizens of Rochester generally agreed that young Charles was the least "impressive" of the three Mayos. Perhaps his appearance prejudiced, for he was not genial. No ruddy jester was he, with a nervous eyelid and a midwifian ribaldry to cheer the anxious parent in her distress. Far from it. William J. was a spot that...