Word: yohe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, May Yohe Hope Strong Smuts, 69, Victorian actress who knew most of the rich dandies of two continents; of arterial sclerotic heart disease and chronic vascular nephritis; in Boston, Mass. In 1894, tempestuous May Yohe, then London star of Little Christopher Columbus, married Lord Francis Hope, who gave her the famed diamond now owned by Evalyn Walsh MacLean. She wore it only twice in eight years before she went off with "the handsomest man in the U. S. Army," Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong. Though he pawned most of her jewelry, she married him year later, only to be deserted...
...claimed that Frankie Bailey had the most beautiful form of the oldtime beauties. Someone told him King Edward VII preferred May Yohe. "So?" said Ziegfeld. "Well, King Edward was no judge...