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...chiton. The bicycle was his stepfather's influence-Solomon Sturges, stockbroker and socialite, was a champion cyclist and a good amateur baseball player. The Attic haberdashery was his mother's idea. Mary Dempsey, who changed her name to Beatricci D'Este and finally settled for Mary Desti, was the bosom friend of Isadora Duncan...
Young Mr. Edison. After the war, Sturges returned to the Maison Desti. He knew a good deal about cosmetics, invented a kissproof lipstick. His mother, in England with a fourth husband, was on the rocks again. She claimed the business; he handed it over and went to work as a free-lance inventor. By the time he was 30 he was about as flat a failure as a man of his age and background could be. Then his appendix ruptured, and saved his life...
...Desti Rides Again. Sturges' brilliant, successful yet always deeply self-sabotaging films suggest a warring blend of the things he picked up through respect for his solid stepfather, contact with his strange mother, and the intense need to enjoy himself and to succeed which came from 30 years of misery and failure. From his life with his mother he would seem to have gotten not only an abiding detestation for the beautiful per se, the noble emotion nobly expressed, but also his almost corybantic intelligence. From Solomon Sturges, on the other hand, Preston may have derived his exaggerated respect...
Died. Mary Desti, 59, friend and biographer of the late great Dancer Isadora Duncan, mother of Playwright Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) who is the son of her first husband, Solomon Sturges of Chicago (she divorced him, married Capt. Howard Perch, from whom she later separated); of superabundance of white corpuscles in the blood, a rare disease which she contracted soon after the death of Dancer Duncan in Nice in 1927; in Manhattan...
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