OK. Princess Whitewing fans, pay attention.
Here’s the original story from the Jan. 29, 1947, edition of the Los Angeles Examiner. Not a transcript, but a copy of the actual paper.
We’ll cut through all this stuff about Ms. Salisbury and the Ziegfeld Follies because it’s irrelevant.
The only important thing she says is that she owned a restaurant (and that’s an unidentified restaurant) in Miami Beach in 1945. Not 1944. Not 1946.
And I quote: “In 1945 she employed Miss Short in her cafe as a waitress, she said.”
And according to “Movements of Elizabeth Short Prior to June 1, 1946,” Elizabeth Short lived at the El Mar Hotel in Miami Beach from late 1944 into early 1945 “but did not work.” From March to September 1945, she worked in Boston. Thereafter, she lived in Jacksonville, Fla., but there is no record of her working.
The bottom line is: Elizabeth Short did not work for Princess Whitewing or anyone while she was in Miami Beach in 1945, the year stated in the Examiner article. It is a distraction and a waste of time to chase this story any further.
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Just a side note, but this Sallsbury quote from the newspaper article seems odd to me.
“One of the women, a blond, was very tall and weighed about 160 pounds. … ”
That’s opposite to how people are usually described, isn’t it? We tend to make a specific guess on height and say something general about the weight, like “medium build”, “thin”, “heavy”, etc. Not that there’s any relevance to that, but I guess I don’t trust the reporters.
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