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Diamond Gardenia Caper Recalled by Beebe Death
Lucius Beebe's obituary highlights his public flamboyance and private industry as a prolific writer. The Diamond Gardenia incident at Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30 opening is recounted, where a gardenia was filched from his boutonniere and recovered from an Englishwoman in the crowd.
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Beebe
Inez Robb
New York
Lucius Beebe
Lucius
Jim Brady
Louis XIV
World of
New Grub Street
Yale
Harvard
Noel Coward
Coward
Gertrude Lawrence
Metropoliten Opera
Aman
W. Averell Harriman
Gardenia
Mark Hellinger
London
le Pavillon
Henri Soule