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...acting, she now recalls, made up for everything: bird-legs, teeth braces and no beaux. "The only boys who liked me were characters -you know, intelligent. I wanted one like Robert Taylor." At 16 she heard about an acting camp in Colorado run by Charlotte Perry and Portia Mansfield, and there was no holding her. For three summers in a row she ran off with almost all the best parts. "At night I dreamed about being a great star like Bernhardt," she says. Nor was Bernhardt enough in those days; she also intended to be Pavlova. Her family had taken...
...City editors began readying obituaries, but as suddenly as he had checked in, Rivera checked out of the hospital and headed for parts unknown. Searching for an explanation of his illness, Mexicans could not but be struck by the daily newspaper photos showing Maria whooping it up with younger beaux. A visitor to Rivera's deserted studio found it barren as December. On his easel stood an unfinished portrait of Maria, the second he has painted (the first: a startling full-length study in a diaphanous gown). Beside the easel reposed a photograph of mercurial Vlaria, her eyes daring...
...Game of Hearts: Harriette Wilson's Memoirs, edited by Leslie Blanch. A saucy, intimate peek at Regency London's beaux and belles from the boudoir of a celebrated courtesan (TIME, June...
...Game of Hearts: Harriette Wilson's Memoirs, edited by Lesley Blanch. A saucy, intimate peek at Regency London's beaux and belles from the boudoir of the most celebrated courtesan of the day (TIME, June...
Last week the finalists gathered in the plush auditorium of the Palais des Beaux Arts under the careful scrutiny of 13 solemn-faced judges and the motherly gaze of Belgium's Queen Elisabeth, 78, patron of the Concours. Only one of five Americans, Philadelphia-born Berl Senofsky, 30, had survived the preliminaries ; all the Russians had made it. Senofsky, whose parents were born in the Ukraine, had studied at Juilliard, spent a hitch in the Army before becoming assistant concertmaster of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra five years ago. Dissatisfied with his progress, he quit his job, flew to Europe...