The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-17

of Navaree (later, King Henry " Of Ffance) only two reached the
 romance status Gahrille d,Es-
 trees was the first, and she kept
 playing repeat performances for
 nearly 20 years As youngsters
 she and her six sisters and broth-
 CTS were such Hellcats they were
 known as the Seven Deadly Sins"
 Gabrielle was finally de- posed by Henrietta d.Entragues
 The King was 50 enamoured of her that he gave her a suite
 of rooms in the Palace adjoining the Queens There was general
 rejoining when both the Queen and Henrietta presented the King with q child within few months.
 Elizabeth Herriott tor Howard) was Lambeth bar maid with Q Rita Hayworth chassis and a face to match It wasn't long before
 0ike Rita in "Gilda") she was helping her boy friend roll the chumps over Q roulette wheel in swanky club . The club folded, but Elizabeth went on to bigger and better boy friends She be- came the sintimate of scores of noblemen and accumulated pounds (Sterling) faster than the Bank of England Through one of her friends she met Napoleon III and lent him the coin that paved his way back to the throne And Napoleon showed his gratitude by giving her everything he could lay his hands on-except q wedding ring When he married Eugenie of Spain, the ex-ber maid (pocr kiO was left with nothing but a buiglng bAnkroll and a dented heart.
 Jane Digby, daughter of a distin- guished Admiral, first hit the head lines when she ran off with a Gypsy band at the age of 16 Less than two years later she was off again, this time with a low-born but l1igh- powered stable groom The couple were intercepted before they could make the mistake" legal .. To prevent further sallies, Jane's parents married her off to stuffy, stumpy, serutanic Lord Ellenbor- ough, and this mistake" lasted no longer than it took Jane to find a man better gaited to her teinpera- ment, German Prince :. The Prince and Jane shacked up to- gether in Italy for four years :. But when her divorce came through he kissed her tenderly and disap- peared In the next six or seven years, Jane went to the altar four times and drove two men to suicide Chats lvingD Her marry y-go-round finally broke down when she fell in love with an Arab who removed the competition by galloping out to the middle of the desert, where they allegedly lived htpply thereafter.
 The night Cora Pearl met the Prince of Wales he couldn't help but notice her charms Practi- cally nothing was hiding them. .. For some time thereafter she en- joyed the Princes company, and he enjoyed her But Cora was . restless gal and moved to Paris where she went long way toward proving the old adage-"Fifty mile lion Frenchmen can go wrong!". :. One day while dining with her then current checkbook (and wear ing 6 $100,000 string of pearls among other thingS) she was approached by Daniloff, noted columnist. Would you trade these" he asked while fondling the string, flor the flattering words of your friend?"
 ,"Of course not" she answered. Why should IF"
 Because they're both equally false," he snapped.
 Cora pulled away. Snapping the string and scattering the pearls across the restaurant. When they were retrieved seven were missing. I See," Cora sneered atthe writer, Shat some of your friends are dIn- ing here tonight"
 Leave 1t to the Naxis to spawn the most unspeakable woman of all She was frau Qrese, one of the Belsen butchers, who went through concentration camp hospi- tals kicking pregnant women until they tainted or died Her hobby consisted of using human skin for Frau Grese was re- gently convicted and hanged.
 She Is now frying in Hell.