actress

Lillian Braithwaite www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q546467 Noël Coward www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298388

The Washington Times. August 27, 1925, Page 10 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1925-08-27/ed-... indicated that Noël Coward would star in his play "The Vortex" at the National Theater, opening on September 7, and that Lilian Braithwaite would also be in the cast. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_Braithwaite "Dame Florence Lilian Braithwaite DBE (9 March 1873 – 17 September 1948) was an English actress, primarily of the stage, although she appeared in both silent and talkie films. ... Her greatest triumph was as the alcoholic mother in Noël Coward's ground-breaking drama The Vortex in 1924." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noël_Coward "Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise""

Not Marilyn Monroe. Her name is Barbara Lang.

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“Canadian dancer, Allan trained as a musician before developing a unique expressive style of dance, performing barefoot and in loose garments. She made her debut in Vienna in 1903 and achieved fame (and notoriety) with her sensational Vision of Salome, which she first performed at the Palace Theatre, London, 1908. She toured widely during the First World War but her career came to an end when, after losing a libel trial in 1918, she was exposed as the sister of a murderer and shunned by theatres. She died in obscurity in a Los Angeles convalescence home”

www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp72278

A different account:

“Maud had had a very successful career and was famous for her exotic “Dance of the Seven Veils”. But in 1818, MP Noel Pemberton Billings published an article which accused her of being a “lesbian ally of German wartime conspirators”. Maud Allan sued for libel – and lost – which led to the end of her career in Europe, and the beginning of her financial struggles to maintain the house. With the help of Lloyd George, she was granted a new 16-year lease on the West Wing in 1934, and relinquished the remainder of the building. Crown Estate”

“During WWII the rest of the building was commandeered for military use. Miss Allan stayed on in the West wing, but the house became uninhabitable when it was bombed in 1942. She was then 69 years old, but drove an ambulance in London for a year before returning to America, where she spent 13 years working as a draughtswoman at MacDonald Aircraft in Santa Monica. She died in a nursing home in LA, aged 83”

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National Library of Ireland on The Commons what did Henry Ford say re History?

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