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Tragedy Hounds Six Ziegfeld Follies Chorus Girls
On June 2 1936 Kathryn Lambert sole survivor recalls a pact made 20 years earlier with Olive Thomas Lilyan Tashman Martha Mansfeld Bessie Poole and Fifi Alsop. Five died under tragic circumstances, one survives as Lambert recounts the fate of the Follies hopefuls and the nameless hag who foretold their end.
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New Amsterdam Theater
New York
Florenz Ziegfeld
Broadway
Churchill's
Churchill
Paradise
Kathryn Lambert
Olive Thomas
America
Lilyan Tashman
Hollywood
Martha Mansfeld
Bessie Poole
Texas Guinan
Lillian Lorraine
Fifi Alsop
Edward Brown Alsop
Pittsburgh
Miss Lambert
W. C. Fields
Ina Clare
Allyn King
Sam Hardy
Fannie Brice
Ann Pennington
Kathryn Perry
Ethel Delmar
Effie Pope Hill
Washington
Effie
Freel Millionaire
Fif
Alsop
Eithe
Alsops
Filo
Europe
Ziegfeld Follies Chorus
Fih
Alsup
Bellevue Hospital
Fifi
Bellevue
Charleroi
Olive Elaine Duffy
McKees Rocks
Bernard Krug Thomas
Harrison Fisher
Haskell Coffin
Jack Pickford
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