I am currently reading Mark Perrys The Most Dangerous Man in America, The Making of Douglas MacArthur, and I found a fascinating account of the MacArthur-Cooper affair. Following is an excerpt: The Girl in the Chastleton Apartments, whom Ross Collins had referred to, was Isabella Rosario Cooper, and she was beautiful. A former Shanghai showgirl and Philippine film star, Cooper had met MacArthur in Manila, then followed him to America when Hoover named him army chief of staff. But while she was thirty four years younger than MacArthur, Cooper wasnt naive. A 1926 Christmas card shows her smiling coyly at her Manila film fans, who flocked to watch her in Ang Tatlong Hambog (1926), in which she received the first Philippine on-screen kiss. The card is signed Dimples.. The two were often seen together in Manila, but that wasnt the case in Washington, where MacArthur rented Cooper a spacious suite at the Chastleton Apartments, bought her an expensive wardrobe, and provided her with a poodle to keep her company when he wasnt around. He visited her nearly every day at the Chastleton, taking several hours at lunch to do so. Knowledge of this dalliance was kept from his mother, who remained a looming figure in his life and a resident at his official quarters at Fort Myer.
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 13:15:58 +0000