Word: vina
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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KEPT WOMAN-Vina Delmar-Earcourt, Brace...
...Bronx, New York City's northernmost borough, famed for bourgeois baby carriages, walkups and dingy streets, was fairly immune to litterateurs until Mrs. Vina Delmar began to leer in its direction. The result of her first leer she sold for about $60 to Snappy Stories, brisk woodpulp fiction monthly. Thereafter her Bronx first-novel Bad Girl, was wreathed by the Literary Guild, and, like later Delmar books, was read by millions...
Readers of the U. S. best seller Bad Girl by Viña Delmar, were intrigued by announcements that the "Season" is now opening at Chile's famed watering place, Vina del Mar. Authoress Delmar's publishers, Harcourt Brace & Co., state that they are informed concerning her as follows...
...GIRL-Vina Delmar-Harcourt Brace ($2). On a Hudson River Sunday excursion boat-jazz under bright lights, petting in the shadows-Dot of the Bronx picks up Harlem Eddie (not colored), gets goin' with him steady, falls for him (i.e. is seduced) and thus becomes a bad girl. But she marries him next day, and soon enough has a child. Simply this and nothing more-but what more is there...