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was impressed by her extensive knowledge of
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in a comic imitation of hieroglyphic wall paintings. This rapidly propelled them to the top of their profession and the trio moved to the UK in 1932, making their
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with her mother Lizzie and her daughter Patsy. She died in a hospital in Düsseldorf on 25 January 1963, aged 56, from emphysema, carcinoma and pulmonary trouble.
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