Word: elinore
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...refuge from reality she took to books. Her heterodox hair and her heterogeneous reading made her "a rather embittered little philosopher" at 16. But Romance soon reared its tousled head again, in the person of an Eton boy on vacation, with whom Elinor ate candy and discussed the classics. On a visit to Paris, a little later, she was beset by a passionate Frenchman, who took her to the zoo, thrilled her to the marrow by whispering "Belle Tigresse!" (beautiful tigress) in her ear. From that adventure Elinor dates her hunger for tiger skins, of which she afterwards had seven...
...Elinor was pleased to discover that there was something about her that men liked. It might have been her figure, with its 18-in. waist. "Whatever it was," says she, "I became a sort of storm centre wherever I went." After one countryhouse ball, four of her suitors after quarreling over her jumped in the lake in full evening dress, then returned to the house and took baths in their host's best champagne. When news of this episode reached one Clayton Glyn, an eligible socialite old bachelor, he made up his mind that Elinor was the girl...
...rented the public swimming baths for two days for their private use, so that he and his bride might swim there naked. The honeymoon over, they settled down to the life of travel, houseparties, "seasons" in London, the routine existence of their English set. After two years of marriage, Elinor found that Romance had flown. When she indignantly reported to Clayton that one of his friends had kissed her, he simply smiled. Elinor says she had plenty of opportunity to make him laugh on the wrong side of his face. Divorce in those days was social suicide, but discreet affairs...
...lucky for Elinor Glyn that she had found a way of making money, for her husband's involved affairs crashed six years before the War, and she had to sup port him and two daughters until his death in 1915. After the War, like many another English author, she went to Hollywood. There she found the pickings good, stayed nearly seven years. To her own labors there she credits such reforms in cinema sets as spittoonless ducal drawing rooms. She says she taught such stars as Valentino and Gloria Swanson how to make convincing love before a camera...
...back in England, her nearly native land, Elinor Glyn is an old lady, with two grandsons at Eton, but her hair has not yet turned grey. Her London drawing room has tiger skins galore, not one spittoon. Ending her romantic memories on a mystic note of hope, she says she confidently expects the Millennium, has made a wonderful discovery, which she uncorks in her final sentence: "God's in His Heaven-all's right with the World...