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When the Old Vic repertory company toured Down Under early this year, New Zealand Beer Baron Sir Ernest Davis, 90, turned up at the Auckland theater for a gander at Actress Vivien Leigh, 48, playing Marguerite Gautier in Dumas' The Lady of the Camellias. So smitten was Sir Ernest with vibrant Vivien that he hurried backstage after the performance, wined and dined the cast, kept in touch by occasional long-distance phone calls when she returned to London, and on one occasion promised to remember her in his will. Last month Sir Ernest died-and his will...
...York's Mayor Robert Wagner (who played the fiddle as a boy). And, since the party was in honor of Governor Luis Muňoz Marin and his wife, there was a sprinkling of Puerto Ricans, including Mayoress Doňa Felisa Rincón de Gautier of San Juan...
...letters must not only confess but must also promise, as a condition of absolution, not to support Muñoz' party in the future unless it changed its "anti-Catholic, antiChristian" philosophy, e.g., its opposition to religious instruction in public schools. When Doña Felisa Rincon de Gautier, the mayoress of San Juan, announced that she would defy his edict Father Maisonet told her she must do public penance before she could receive Communion. Realizing that the situation had got clearly out of hand, Archbishop Davis cabled moderation from Chicago. Said Davis: "No sanctions or penalties were ordered...
Legal Right. Reaction to Maisonet's statement and to similar edicts laid down by priests throughout Puerto Rico was violent. Doña Felisa Rincón de Gautier, the P.D.P. mayoress of San Juan, said: "At that moment, I felt that Father Maisonet was more a sinner than myself, for he was denying Communion to many good people who did not in their hearts believe that they had committed a sin." Doña Felisa defiantly announced that she intended to receive Communion without confessing or repenting her vote...
When a book sold less than 10,000 copies a year, Haldeman-Julius often revived it by giving it a more provocative title. After Fleece of Gold, the Gautier story, was retitled The Quest for a Blonde Mistress, the market rose from 6,000 copies to 50,000 a year. Haldeman-Julius hired a stable of writers to grind out popular themes; by far the most prolific was an apostate priest in London, Joseph McCabe, who wrote on anything, and eventually produced more than 7,500,000 words at the rate of 10,000 a week...