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BROADWAY ’’PEACOCKNnunmvi unncru/ircmvii ivnn liVUOfalDl UVfluMuriel Hanford, In Follies’!- Days, (Joined “Butter and j a-Etfg’' PhraseIn i■ ... I li*Arnold,s Park, la., Feb. 12—Shades: J* of Flo Zlegfe!d and Tex Guinan—j Muriel Window Hanford ha* set-; blt; tied down! 1 *Her whirlwind start and night.club • career wh!ch jarred and; m pleased Parts, New York, Hollywood , —even Sioux City, Ia.~lm gone; Cl definitely domestic in the more or; lt;Jess rustic scenes of this Iowa lake. 5 region. j JIf you don't believe it, come up * and see her at her modest residence 3 here, where .she Is now selling down * with her third husband. You will bci | sure of a cordial welcome. ! c•’Confidentially.’1 she confided,; 7'I'm fixiny the house. It isn't all; 71 - ^ a Lb i b a . • • a. a t. 1 a « * a t *done yei bn* . . . com*? on down a:sy-; 8way. I sMuriel, the “Peacock'* of The, 'c Broadway stage, the girl who once; tc drove an ambulance during. Uie tcworld war and won the hcans of! American soldiers with her singing.and dancing, the girl who pulled; one of the greatest publicity hoaxes? of all time and got a movie con-.BWVttract om of it. the young matron; *•who set a new pace in gaiety with; *Eher expensive panics at Sioux City! * — well, she is now doing most of her! □ own refurnishing work. ’ £Anri in this community where! ^ eyebrows arc rawed at a background; u which includes, besides glamor. h night clubs, the Mage, wild parties; * and multiple marriage, those who! n have met her admit that they like • Jj her. ’‘Admit ia the word here,To the community, she may be-; come ju.se Mrs. Howard G. Turn-Icy. housewife and heme maker !That is her new husband’s name, i anti he lives at Mankato, Minn.To her old friends, it Is certain j •she wiU remain Muriel Hanford, ~ the Rirl. now 40 or f0. who or)g-:p lnated the big butter and egg;uman” phrase which the late Tex; Ouinan popularized, and whose! Sioux City night club bore the Islogan. You Can't Beat Pan.'’Next summer, when the tourists'*1, ktrenm back to the Okobojl and y Spirit Lake region, Muriel will be 11 back in her old role as proprietor. c of a beer garden and enfo on the.w wbUt front wnuwrnenl park here.For though .she has handled a l* Jot of money and given some gor-'t1 grous parties since that day. marc;than ftftccn years ago. when the!clgivat Zlefeld chose her n* the'st “Peacock Glr!.'* Muriel's finances; u have not always gone too well. i ; lt;1
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Cumberland Evening Times

Cumberland, Maryland, US

Wed, Feb 12, 1936

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