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Francise “Babe” Clow Thayer

Birth
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Death
25 Feb 1974 (aged 60)
Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Burial
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Cook County, Ill. Birth Index:
Name:Isabelle Clow
Birth Date: 1 Jan 1914
Birth Place: Lake Forest
Gender: Female
Father: William Ellsworth Clow
Mother: Isabelle Patchin Mann
FHL Film Number: 1288304

Who's who in the Midwest (1949), p. 259, and Who is Who in Music (1951), p.81, give her name as Mary Melville Clow, Mrs. Mario Braggiotti. They married Jan. 15, 1938, divorced 1948 (Portland OREGONIAN, July 25, 1948; American Weekly Magazine, July 25,1948, p.5). They had one son, Francis Mario Braggiotti, in 1942.

Mario Braggiotti (b. November 29, 1905 in Florence, Italy - d. May 18, 1996) was a famous composer. He first married in Chicago 1939 "to Francise (Baby) Clow," later divorced. (Duke, Vernon. Passport to Paris. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1955, p.302.)
The character of Tommy Barban in TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald was based in part on Mario Braggiotti (ref., Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction by M. C. Rintoul (1993), page 557).

"Husband and Wife Wear matching Clothes in Current New York Fad" by Gladwin Hill (Springfield, Mass. Mass UNION & REPUBLICAN p.14A, column 5) calls her Francis Clow: "Look again and you have Mario Braggiotti, socialite pianist, and his wife, the former Francis Clow, Chicago debutante, in twin suits of Brown Shetland."

"Husband and Wife Wear matching Clothes in Current New York Fad" by Gladwin Hill (Associated Press): "Look again and you have Mario Braggiotti, socialite pianist, and his wife, the former Francis Clow, Chicago debutante, in twin suits of Brown Shetland." (Springfield, Mass. Mass UNION & REPUBLICAN p.14A, column 5; Portland OREGONIAN, March 15, 1939, Section 4, p.3; New Orleans TIMES PICAYUNE, March 15, 1939, Part 2, p.8.)

Brother of Gloria Braggiotti Etting, author of PHILADELPHIA, THE INTIMATE CITY, a memoir which the Philadelphia Inquirer said "allowed readers to peek at the lives of Philadelphia's ruling families - the Annenbergs, Biddles, Cadwaladers, Scotts, and Atwater Kents - and their mansions, their parties, and their styles of living."

Dallas Morning News, Oct. 30, 1954, p.2: "Mrs. Frances (Babe) Braggiotti, Scottsdale writer and divorced wife of Mario Braggiotti, concernt pianist…."
She married in 1954 Edmond Jay Thayer (1908-1965). Francise Clow Thayer was the author of Summer Poems (Rome, 1969); and
The Best of Baby in Photographs and Memories (1974).
Cook County, Ill. Birth Index:
Name:Isabelle Clow
Birth Date: 1 Jan 1914
Birth Place: Lake Forest
Gender: Female
Father: William Ellsworth Clow
Mother: Isabelle Patchin Mann
FHL Film Number: 1288304

Who's who in the Midwest (1949), p. 259, and Who is Who in Music (1951), p.81, give her name as Mary Melville Clow, Mrs. Mario Braggiotti. They married Jan. 15, 1938, divorced 1948 (Portland OREGONIAN, July 25, 1948; American Weekly Magazine, July 25,1948, p.5). They had one son, Francis Mario Braggiotti, in 1942.

Mario Braggiotti (b. November 29, 1905 in Florence, Italy - d. May 18, 1996) was a famous composer. He first married in Chicago 1939 "to Francise (Baby) Clow," later divorced. (Duke, Vernon. Passport to Paris. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1955, p.302.)
The character of Tommy Barban in TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald was based in part on Mario Braggiotti (ref., Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction by M. C. Rintoul (1993), page 557).

"Husband and Wife Wear matching Clothes in Current New York Fad" by Gladwin Hill (Springfield, Mass. Mass UNION & REPUBLICAN p.14A, column 5) calls her Francis Clow: "Look again and you have Mario Braggiotti, socialite pianist, and his wife, the former Francis Clow, Chicago debutante, in twin suits of Brown Shetland."

"Husband and Wife Wear matching Clothes in Current New York Fad" by Gladwin Hill (Associated Press): "Look again and you have Mario Braggiotti, socialite pianist, and his wife, the former Francis Clow, Chicago debutante, in twin suits of Brown Shetland." (Springfield, Mass. Mass UNION & REPUBLICAN p.14A, column 5; Portland OREGONIAN, March 15, 1939, Section 4, p.3; New Orleans TIMES PICAYUNE, March 15, 1939, Part 2, p.8.)

Brother of Gloria Braggiotti Etting, author of PHILADELPHIA, THE INTIMATE CITY, a memoir which the Philadelphia Inquirer said "allowed readers to peek at the lives of Philadelphia's ruling families - the Annenbergs, Biddles, Cadwaladers, Scotts, and Atwater Kents - and their mansions, their parties, and their styles of living."

Dallas Morning News, Oct. 30, 1954, p.2: "Mrs. Frances (Babe) Braggiotti, Scottsdale writer and divorced wife of Mario Braggiotti, concernt pianist…."
She married in 1954 Edmond Jay Thayer (1908-1965). Francise Clow Thayer was the author of Summer Poems (Rome, 1969); and
The Best of Baby in Photographs and Memories (1974).


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