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...squash, Eleonora Sears is some punkins. Reputedly the first woman to play squash racquets in the U. S. (in 1918, she demanded that Boston's men's clubs let her play on their courts, house rules or no house rules), the rich Boston Brahmin, great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson and heiress to a big New England shipping fortune, has been going great guns ever since...
...until he turned to novels and the drama that his influence was felt outside Italy. His Italian was written in a flamboyant, often baroque, style, lush with passionate simile. He was in fact a Casanova, yearned to be a Napoleon. He carried on world famed affairs with Actresses Eleonora Duse and Sarah Bernhardt, Dancers Ida Rubinstein and Isadora Duncan, other Edwardian beauties. In 1909 his brutally frank description of his intimacies with Duse sent her into a twelve-year retirement. During this period he had also married an Italian, Donna Maria Hardouin, who soon after left him for Paris...
...good one. Film Tsar Luigi Freddi entertained him at his home, where no Hollywoodman has been before. Princess Jane San Faustino (née Jane Campbell of Manhattan) introduced him to Crown Prince Umberto at a smart midnight party. Admirers brought him gifts-art objects, rare books, an Eleonora Duse autograph. Naive-looking, bespectacled Mamoulian finally fled, dazzled, to restful Capri...
...Euripides and Aeschylus. It is the first produced play of Author Turney who. now nearing 40, is reported to have nursed its idea ever since he left Columbia University. In the part of Clytemnestra it presents, in her U. S. debut, a German actress of considerable reputation named Eleonora Mendelssohn...
That is a fine portrait of Sportswoman Eleonora Sears which appears in TIME, March 16. It will interest many readers. Long before the World War, Miss Sears was known as a pedestrian champion when visiting friends in California. You did not mention in your article that the aristocratic Miss Sears once hiked alone from the Burlingame Country Club to Hotel Del Monte-over 100 miles-escorted by a motorcade of sport-loving friends. It was a record-breaking hike. During the same season (about 1911) Miss Sears kept up a stable of polo ponies and rode on the polo fields...