Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Youth," says Cobina Wright Sr., in one of the more thoughtful moments in her autobiography, "is, in truth, wasted on the young...
...premise* and from the title of her book, I Never Grew Up, it might be assumed that the whole life of the celebrated belle (and managing mother of an equally celebrated one) has been wasted. The assumption would be both hasty and unkind. In its own gossipy fashion, Author Wright's autobiography is something of a personal history of the 20th century. It is also a record of one of the most buoyant egos ever hatched...
Europe survived the Oregon cyclone, though the young men were laid flat in windrows. "Artists," Author Wright recalls demurely, "have told me that I had a perfect figure." She also discovered that she had "the divine gift" of an artistic temperament, and found a more artistic name to go with it-Cobina. And then one night, when she took stage fright at the prospect of singing the Queen of the Night in a third-string production of The Magic Flute, 16-year-old Cobina had her revelation...
...Front Page. Cobina fought clear of foreign entanglements in 1919, and went home to Manhattan. Soon after her return she met Millionaire Bill Wright, "the best man on the floor" of the New York Stock Exchange. "The first moment we danced together . . . I knew that at last I was honestly, deeply in love." They were married, and fortified by the Wright millions, Cobina threw a succession of parties that made her the busiest hostess on the Sands Point-Palm Beach-Café Society circuit. At the same time, she dazzled Manhattan concert audiences with a recital mixture of popular soprano...
Then came the 1929 crash. Cobina blames herself now for being so heedless of business affairs; while the bottom was falling out of the stock market she was busy with cross-country concerts and social life. She had also lost touch with her husband. A few years after the Wright millions went down the drain, the marriage broke up. Bill went off with another woman. They were divorced, not without a scandal "spicy enough," she notes, "to share front-page space with the trial of the Lindbergh kidnaper...