Clare Boothe Luce wrote that Dorothy Hale told her she was going on
a very long trip to a secret destination and was giving herself a farewell
cocktail party on the evening of October 20, 1938. Clare, explained that
she had been annoyed at Dorothy’s financial debt and said ‘I’m sorry I
can’t make your party. The thing you look best in is your old Madame X
black velvet. Hope the trip lives up to your expectations.’
Dorothy was found dead the next morning. She had fallen sixteen stories
from her apartment window at the
Hampshire House on Central Park
South.
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| Portion of The Montreal Gazette Oct. 22, 1938 |
On the evening of October 20th, Dorothy was not giving herself a farewell
party. She was hosting a cocktail party in honor of
Laurence Steinhardt, who
would be appointed Ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1939 by President
Roosevelt. In 1938, Steinhardt served as the United State’s Ambassador
to Peru.
(See image of Montreal Gazette clipping, "Dorothy Hale Dies in 16-Storey Fall" right)
According to Clare’s appointment book, she had a lunch scheduled with
Dorothy on Friday, October 21st. If Dorothy was to leave the next day for her long, secret trip, it is peculiar she would have scheduled a lunch date.
Myra Bairstow
info@dorothyhale.com
Quotes and Passages from “Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo” by Hayden
Herrera.
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