jan 1, 1978 - Robert's theater that he shared with Alice dies down

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"When Alice died, so did the highbrow social theater she and Robert had shared in Los Angeles. Robert would no longer keep open the private salons of the finest department stores to find some heavily beaded gown for Alice. The invitations to this or that black-tie function evaporated. The phone didn't ring as much. With Pearl gone back to Kentucky, he had the whole house to himself." (Wilkerson 447)

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