Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adventure came to him in the person of Anna Laura Lowe, a white widow woman. A court decision described what followed: "Barnett was kidnapped by an adventuress." All through one night they rode in a taxi to Coffeyville, Kans. where they were married. Then they crossed the State line to Missouri and were married again...
...curb before the house, pretending to be a traffic cop and holding up his hand at automobiles. The only disruption of his last days occurred in March when the Government finally got a court to annul his marriage. That meant little to him, however, for the Lowe woman stayed on as his housekeeper...
...slender, grey-haired conductor, a pious wealthy woman and a Dayton, Ohio church which had earnest hard-working choristers gave Westminster Choir its start. The conductor was Dr. John Finley Williamson, quiet son of a British clergyman, whose aim in life was to improve church music, make it more devotional, restore some of the artistic prestige it had in the days of Palestrina, Haydn, Bach. The first Westminster Choir (1920) was composed of factory workers and named for Dayton's Westminster Presbyterian Church where it sang Sundays. But John Williamson was not content with one group's singing...
Kykunkor (Witch Woman) closed for a few days but last week it reopened uptown in the smart little Chanin Auditorium. Best seats at the Unity Theatre had cost 35?. At the Chanin they were $2.75 and the list of enthusiasts had grown to include Leopold Stokowski, Lawrence Tibbett, George Gershwin, Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Van Doren. "One of the most exciting shows in town," critics were saying. But the songs and dances make it so. Kykunkor's plot is slender. It tells of an African villager who chooses a bride, succumbs to the evil magic of another less...
...Take a look. See eef you can find one black and blue on me." Clad only in a pink "tightie." Cinemactress Lupe Velez pirouetted before a woman reporter in her dressing room in a Brooklyn theatre to scotch a rumor that Husband Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller beat her. Miss Velez: "I sue you, darlin', if you say he ponch...