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LAST week three persons whose names were tapped out often by thetypewriters of Broadway columnists died — Auriol Lee, Sam Harris, and Eleanor •Cookie Young. They were all items’’ to me at various time®, but two I knew and one I had never met.Cookie Young was a pretty dark-haired girl with a long bob who danced in F.I Morocco and looked a little older than her age and never looked very happy, even when she was dancing: I didn’tknow her.Sam Harris was a genial, friendly, fatherly old man with a greatsweetness of manner and a way of seeming to be always chuckling inwardly at some pleasant joke. Auriol Lee was one of the ten most interesting women I’ve ever known.She was quick salty, and full of wit, I was surprised to read that she was 61. because she never seemed within ten years of that age, and I'm sure Auriol would have been furious at the papers for mentioning.' * J - * * /,- '; ,, ’Lunch with Auriol always ran well into the middle of the afternoon chiefly because she was so entertainingly talkative you kept staying for one more story. She knew and had directed, here and in London, such celebrated ladies as Merle Oberon, Madeleine Carroll, and Ruth Chatterton. and she was full of lore about them. Not just gossipyreminiscence — Auriol’s were real funny stories wdth points.She wax friendly with the Duke of Windsor before and around the time of the abdication, and I used to love to hear her talk about the former Mr*. Wallis Simpson, whom she apparently also had known intimately. Auriol, with her tongue in her cheek, always pretended to be amazed (I am *ure she was never amazed in her lifel that Mrs. Simpson had “got so far.*’* Poor Wally,’ she said once. She was always such a mousylittle thing!”And there St. Peter. I give you Auriol Lee — the only woman in Christendom who was capable of regarding the Duchess of Windsoras mousy.”
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Pottstown Mercury
Pottstown, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Jul 11, 1941
Page 4
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Toni L.
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