[6][7][8] Her act, "Kaleidoscope of Dance", featured brightly-colored costumes designed by Lady Duff Gordon,[9] and music by songwriter Dave Stamper.

There are songs too, which Miss Cavanagh delivers in a delightfully distracted out-of-breath manner, mingled with apologetic ripples of laughter.

[16] She flew with aviator Jacqueline Cochran on assignments for the Times, and in 1946 wrote a series of columns from Hawaii, while recovering from a fall off an elephant's back.

[17] Lucille Cavanagh married California real estate developer Walter H. Leimert in 1919, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.

In 1923, the Leimert family were among the first to live at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, while their home in Hancock Park was under construction.