Word: benda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is a good season, thanks largely to the leader of the "Red" faction of the Femina jury (named for its sanguine literary tastes and bloody infighting), a novelist, playwright and onetime actress known only as Simone (real name: Pauline Benda). "Several years ago," according to an acquaintance, "she stationed her age at a permanent 75." She reads a novel a day, still manages to take a personal interest in handsome young writers. Madame Simone is haughtily and heartily despised by the "Blue" faction (named for the hue of its blood), led by a scientist, mathematician and relative youngster...
Died. Marion Benda, 45, Ziegfeld Follies girl of the '20s, long rumored to be the mysterious Woman in Black who made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Screen Lover Rudolph Valentino each year on the anniversary of his death; by her own hand (sleeping pills, on her seventh attempt); in Hollywood. She claimed to have gone dancing with Valentino the night he was fatally stricken with an attack of peritonitis and gastric ulcers, afterwards made the headlines by announcing that they had been married and were the parents of a baby girl. Later she did marry 1) a Hollywood...