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...Lindbergh carnival. But the vaudeville and cinema contracts in her honor were not as fat as admirers expected. Her lawyer, Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, finally allowed her to accept a contract which required that she perform in a glass tub on vaudeville stages. "The idea of an endurance swimmer showing the public anything in a one-stroke tub suggests a whale doing a marathon in an eye cup," remarked a Chicago Tribune writer...
...Clemington Corson (distance swimmer, once Mille Gade of Denmark) talked about her profession in Copenhagen, Denmark, to a huge audience including royalty and Annette Kellerman, aging Australian "diving Venus." King Christian X of Denmark commanded Mrs. Corson's presence at his palace, listened to her description of swimming the English Channel, handed her a gold medal. Said she upon emerging from the audience chamber: "I cried from sheer...
Married. Helen Wainwright, 19, able swimmer, onetime (1922) national champion diver; to Leonard Holland, theatre organist; in Dallas...
Gertrude Ederle, channel swimmer: "Last week, after undressing in an ambulance, I swam to and fro in the Trinity River, seven miles from Dallas, Tex., peering and feeling unsuccessfully underwater for two corpses, the bodies of 18-year-old Dallas boys, Clifford Stockton and Lee Harris, whose boat had capsized. This information reached the public through the press agent of the vaudeville troupe with which I am barnstorming...
Died. Sybil Bauer, 23, famed swimmer, of an intestinal disorder, following 92 days' illness; at Chicago...