AFebruary 07 1959
Obscure Victim of Fire Once Was Top Model 07 Feb 1959, Sat Arizona Republic (Phoenix, Arizona) Newspapers.com
Obscure Victim Of Fire Once Was Top Model
Venice, Calif. (AP)—A woman who died in obscurity in the flaming ruins of her modest beach-front apartment was an internationally known model and a Hollywood actress 25 years ago, it was disclosed yesterday.
Flames which claimed the life of 45-year-old Gwili Andre Cross Thursday missed her prized possession, her scrapbook.
From it, friends and neighbors yesterday put together the story of her heyday as one of the top fashion models of Europe and New York in the 1930s.
During the depression she was earning $25,000 a year. Her picture appeared frequently on the cover of the nation's top magazines. RKO brought her to Hollywood as a contract player, and she appeared in the films opposite Richard Dix and other stars.
She was born in Copenhagen and came to this country in 1934. Newspaper clippings indicated she obtained a Reno, Nev., divorce in 1935 from Stanislaw Mlotkowski of Philadelphia, and was married here later to an engineer, William Dallas Cross Jr.
Fading Magazine Covers Which Featured Gwili Andre Cross 07 Feb 1959, Sat The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) Newspapers.com
Fading Magazine Covers Which Featured Gwili Andre Cross.
…yesterday she died in the flaming ruins of her modest beach front apartment. —United Press International Telephoto
November 17 1959
Chess 17 Nov 1959, Tue The Birmingham Mail (Birmingham, West Midlands, England) Newspapers.com
Chess
By Leonard Barden
To sacrifice the queen and checkmate with a pawn—that is every chessplayer's dream. Here is one game (Mlotkowski vs. Deacon) in which it was done.
Stasch Mlotkowski (white) vs. Robert Deacon (black)
Philidor Defense: Philidor Countergambit
