Word: ua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...private setting appropriate to one of the theatre's swankiest headliners. At various times she had lavish apartments or penthouses on or just off Fifth Avenue, and a London home with hundreds of mirrors and curtains of solid silver sequins. One of her London dressing rooms was described as ua corner of a dream." Through her salons moved such guests as Edward of Wales (who gave her his picture inscribed "To Gertrude?Edward P."); Manhattan Socialite Bertrand L. Taylor; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (who gave her a 30-foot cabin cruiser); Peruvian Artist Reynaldo Luza; Adventure Writer Edgar Wallace...