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• 340th in a series on early Miami. opening place it at 61st Street and Collins; concert with gangsters and gamblers, she I regret r
• HOWARD KLEINBERG others at the same time place it at 67th leased it in 1933 to health faddist Bernarr presidential c
Editor of The Miarn.Mews Street. Perhaps it is because that area of Macfadden. current pros
Miami Beach was so remote in those daysIt promptly was renamed the Macfadden- agreement is
"Largest Swimming Pool In Florida Opens that street locations were approximated. Deauville. Macfadden introduced health I give Al
Today," proclaimed the advertisement in the Anyhow, 6701 Collins Ave. is the long-estab- foods to the hotel, and it played to moderate avoided the n
Feb. 6; 1926 Miami News. It was, being 165 lished address of the old Deauville, just as it success until taken over by the Army during triumph treatymar
feet long and 100 feet wide. is the new Deauville. World War II. The condition of the hotel had flwed. of
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Built by former Carl Fisher land salesman Despite the ambiance, the pool and the deteriorated and the Armymoved out.
cannot supe
Joseph Elsener, the Deauville Casino at 81st When Lucy — now Princess Lucy Cotton • agreement, h
gaming tables, the Deauville was just too far Thomas Magraw Eristavi-Tchitcherine — may be the
Street and the ocean was planned as an
north of civilization. Business was poor, and sold the hotel in 1944 for $750,000, it set off thing to do."
entertainment capital. Dining rooms, ball-
room dancing, entertainers, exhibitions by Elsener sold it to a former Broadway showgirl a series of legal battles in which she regained • Fatally fl:
champion swimmers and divers and state- who inherited a $27 million trust fund when control of the hotel in 1948; the battles Reagan's cha
of-the-art bathing facilities were the features her first husband was killed in an auto negotiated lc
accident. followed her in death in 1948. said it would
offered. There also were lockers, bath Macfadden used his 33 year lease of the Soviet land-b.
houses and some rooms with private show- Born Lucy Cotton, she would marry five hotel to launch unsuccessful campaigns for for him. In 19
ers. times and wind up with a title of princess — the 1936 Republican presidential nomination, put forward
The pool was on the second story behind her last husband being an exiled White the 1940 Democratic nomination for senator Sanchez in G
the hotel rooms, and there are constant Russian prince. As Lucy Cotton Thomas from Florida and the 1948 Democratic York Times, i
references in old clippings to the gaming Magraw, she bought the hotel and renamed nomination for governor of Florida. la plan, whe
tables at the old Deauville. it the Beautiful Deauville, according to Helen The Macfadden-Deauville was torn down flawed." The
Somewhat mysterious about the location Muir's "Miami, U.S.A." in 1956 and replaced with a new Deauville treaty flaws,
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of the original Deauville is that some When she found herself caught up in Hotel. could live wit
newspaper ads and articles at the time of its allegations that the hotel was being run in •NEXT SATURDAY: Princess Lucy. • "This is one 1
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Deauville casino Saturday night The swimming pool of the casino ,_ spokesman fc
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drew one of the most brilliant and is the only one in the south where r, 54,,1 a a kt4 called Reagan
• colorful crowds of the season. official recognition will be given : of � `
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champions who establish new re- F z "fatally flawe
Situated at the ocean terminus of ,3 � a First use?
Sixty-first st., the casino contains a cords, he said. It is 165 feet long and 2„ f4 . � ax
number of entertainment features. 100 feet wide with a depth of 3 1/2111411:1:.:•i1•::::::*: ` 7� ' '; ' t from Sir Art
feet on both ends and 14 feet in the r Writing," in N
Night life at the casino is enhanced center. It holds nearly 1,000,000 <. : �` .' : • s •
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• by the California Ramblers and the gallons of water. theme which
Varsity Six which play continuous Among features are actinic rays �t Fa The lexicogra,
music from 10 p.m. on. A feature of for the use of bathers who desire the bE : £ ;,'.. , � s f y .,, i back much fur
the opening program was Kay "sun cure," physical culture and }"�`'� ,.> • ��`
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Durban and Basil Durant in a series p y s±` "''
of and lounge laundries, a day restaurant • Yom=¢3 ,3 ould come o
late ballroomo "Gay steps.PaSalt appeared Pepper,in and the supper club. • fatal flaw is r
Gertrude Ederle, whose recent . Irregulars wh
intimate entertainment with banjos. attempt to swim the English channel
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During the day the Seventh Regi- attracted worldwide attention, will dating to I do
ment band of New York, directed by give exhibitions for the next two r:£. "7° ;� Y „>� m # I ,x :3 It could be
Lieut. Francis W.Sutherland, played. seasons at the Deauville. With here #�§ NI ...::.,_ According to
This band entertained the Prince of are Aileen Riggin, breast stroke y ;ft y Handlist to En
Wales during his last visit to New champion; Alma Wycoff, underwater :. hamartia, is '
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York and has been engaged for the swimming champion of the Women's character. In
season. Swimming Association of New York, ,..,:,if: hero's downf
Throughout the season main at- and Pete and Jim Holland, life l . . ambition is on
tractions are expected to be water guards. '= • Which brin,
sports, which will be carried on by Besides Mr. Elsener, officers of the "- - who search fi
Olympic champions. Attempts to casino company are Arthur Hand and Swimming pool area of Macfadden Deauville featured eschew hubri
shatter records will be made,accord- Wallace T. Kirkeby. turret-style high dive platform (left) • another of the
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Bernarr Macfadden and third wife, Johnie Lee, after 1948 Macfadden Deauville demolished in 1956 to make way for new
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