Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Porfirio Rubirosa, aging (47) Dominican playboy; and bosomy, 20-year-old French Actress Odile Rodin; he for the fifth time (wives one to four: Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of the Dominican dictator, French Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux, Moneybags Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton), she for the first; in Sonchamp, France...
...Dominican Playboy Porfirio ("I just try to make women happy") Rubirosa, 47, seemed afflicted by true love. In his legal partnerships so far, Rubirosa has always poorly concealed the practical methods that leavened his romantic madness...
...previous altar junkets he got: the boss's daughter (No. i was Flor de Oro Trujillo, golden flower of the Dominican dictator), glamour and oodles of connections (No. 2 was French Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux), and the good life (No. 3 and No. 4: Heiresses Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton). No. s-to-be can give him none of these things, but moonstruck Rubirosa, aching to marry her "probably within one month," husked that his fiancee, fast-rising Paris Actress Odile (Fabien) Rodin, 19,* is "pretty, intelligent, gracious and good...
...shotgun charge caught Harrison not in his natural habitat of Broadway fleshpots, but in the Dominican Republic. But the shotgun, sure enough, belonged to a man written up in Confidential's latest bimonthly issue: a 35-year-old professional hunter named Richard Weldy, who, according to Confidential, had lost his wife to Actor John Wayne in Peru...
...production style less intimate than very small theater-in-the-round. In addition, it has virtually no plot. Playwrights Gregorio and Maria Martinez Sierra have merely chronicled two days eighteen years apart. In the first act, an unwanted infant girl is left on the doorstep of a convent of Dominican nuns, and the sisters decide to raise the child. In the second, the girl, now eighteen years old, is leaving the convent to get married. In terms of standard theatrical material, that's all there...