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had to be pulled on to the
accompanying boat. By 1914
she was topping the bill,
along with her sisters, at
theatrical aquatics displays.
Six years later a Pathé clip
shows her swimming with
two others in the sea; she’s
then seen sitting on the steps
of a beach house or bathing
machine, laughing, before
striding down the steps and
across a pebbled shore to the
water. What happened to her

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