The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-21

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| of the kings. They aaid thai Q
course" could hardly cause such IN
aiIment a. that from which Lord
CarnarvOn 10 suffering.
& The other woman would. Not
only that, but she would let her
have some 81 her clothes to wear
land something 70 eat for breakfast
1.-THE next afternoon. The two liked
leach other from the start; and II
lall ended with an indefinite stay.
On ROad 20 Prosperity.
The other woman introduced DorO,
thy to lot Of nice. rich men, just
the right material for ''papas" and
"daddies.' The nice, rich men took
King was her mothers maiden
name and sounded nicer than
Keenan.l II wasn't long before
Dorothy was on the road 70 pros.
peE1ty, Swiftly she learned the
ways Of NInaking ''papao" and
"daddies'' feel that q. nice little Girl
IreaIly ought TO. have o. new gown,
or q new bracelet, or 9 new some
thing.
And when prosperity had come suit.
Efictently to DOe0khYf Dorothy left the
other woman. The first the latter
knew shout twas when 1he found q
mot 0ai the dressing table. saying
DcFothy would send hsf what she
owed Tor b0aFd.
There also was che matter Of o
fur piece and 81 necklace Of seed
pearls that Dorothy had worn once
to meet . very influential gentle
But the other woman, more pros.
porous than herself, didn't bother
about Il at the time,
But last December. when her funds
were running low, as funds win do
sometimes, the other woman hap
pened TO think Of the unpaid board
bill. She brought suit. and Dor
othy after considerable vocal fire.
works settled out Of court for $500.
Her Broadway Debut.
This was Dosothy's Broadway de-
but. More and more frequently was
she seen at the ringSIde table ct the
eayes cabarets with e fashionabIy
dressed admirer, sometimes old,
| sometimes young, a. her escort.
Sometimes she was the center OF
q gay party that grew Rayer as what
was left of the evening wore on and
what was left of their inhibitions
wore off,
She became known az a "good
| girl" which In Broadway parlance
has nothing to do with ethics, or
morals. She was good company, ex-
tremely good looking, always ex.
| Quisttely gowned, and Q witty con-
versaticnaligt. Her Irish ancestry
may have bequeathed her the last
| gift.
Only when she had been drinking
4 excessively did her good nature fail
her. At such times she became i'll.
tempered and quarrelsome, and the
| quick temper that had manifested
itself In her short married life came
TO the surface. But her associates
| did not seem to mind. She was
beautiful and alluring. and could
get away with murder"
The name most closely linked with
her during this period Of her life was
that OF Jack Lannigan, former pro-
prtetor OF Reisenweber's and "The
Tent" He had met her through her
| frequent visits to these cabarets, and
they began to be seen frequently In
each others company. Dorothy, or
Dot, az she preferred her intimates
to call her. took q room at the Great
Northern Hotel. although she sStill
went home often enough for her
mother to say that she still lived
4 there. ~ -.
/ She always seemed to have plenty
OF money and became noted for her
Il generosity to the employees about the
II hotel. On one occasion the girl at
Il the telephone switchboard happened
to admire an expensive new gown
II she was wearing,
II Gives Her Gown Away.
Like it?' she asked. You can
have it," And sent It down by a
bell boy az soon as she had reached
her room. Besides Lannigan she
was friendly during this time with q
private detective. the star operative
n Of one OF the country's largest aHen,
cies, whose speciality Is society
Jobs" Handsome, young, and fault.
iessIy dressed. this man gave out
that he was Wall Street broker
and only his closest friends knew his
real business. q.
The break with Lannigan came in
the fall Of 1921. The reason. Lanni
gan said yesterday in Chicago. was
that she was "illiterate, hot-tempered
and cursed too much. He said;
when / broke up with her she
met Albert Guimares. It seems she
was talking over the telephone and
the wires got crossed and she and
GuinareS found themselves on. the
same line. They made an appoint.
ment, which was the beginning al