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...Faced Woman, Garbo exits a cocktail party and says brightly, "I look forward to my return." She never did return; this amiable 1941 comedy was her last film. For years she was reported to be mulling beguiling projects (on the lives of St. Teresa of Avila, Eleanora Duse, Dorian Gray) from eminent auteurs (Max Ophuls, Salvador Dali, Orson Welles). Eventually, the vacation became permanent, and Garbo's only pictures were those snapped on the fly by avid paparazzi. Now the camera was not a lover but a predator. Still, her withdrawal was a good and gracious career move. By refusing...
...hospitals since arriving in Israel a fortnight ago-first for a breathing problem, then following a minor car accident-the actress, surrounded by her courtiers, braved her way through early rounds of meetings with a professional élan that would have warmed the heart of Eleonora Duse or, for that matter, Philip Habib. Swathed in a neck brace and with bandaged leg and finger, Taylor, looking a bit like someone who had been wounded in the Lebanon fighting, persevered to keep her appointment with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, 69. Although Liz tried to keep her chins up, her woeful...
...TIME'S editors, the Lehnus study provided provocative reading and, as Managing Editor Ray Cave observed, a lifetime of winning bar bets (The first Man of the Year? Charles A. Lindbergh. Only basketball player? Oscar Robertson. First woman? Eleanora Duse...
...theater unique in all of North America. The Asolo (pronounced Ahs-olo) is an 18th century Italian wooden court theater, transported board by board in 1951 from the Old World to the New. Elegant, intimate, enchanting, with a triple tier of embossed balconies, the Asolo was the great Duse's home theater, and playgoers of a bygone day included Chopin, George Sand and Robert Browning...
Dark, slinky, with a faintly Oriental mien and a marvelously adaptable mouth, Cornell was dubbed the American Duse. After indelibly establishing her star status as the sultry Iris March in Michael Arlen's The Green Hat, she later chose rich dramatic roles in the "Katharine Cornell Presents" company she founded with McClintic in 1931. Its first production, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, featured Cornell as the consumptive Elizabeth Barrett. In 1933 Cornell took the company on a landmark 21,000-mile road trip through the U.S., bringing The Barretts, Shaw's Candida and Romeo and Juliet to such...