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...situation with which Design For Living concerns itself is somewhat unusual for light comedy-polyandry. Act I, laid in Paris, finds Actress Fontanne as Gilda (pronounced Jilda), an interior decorator vaguely troubled by the uncertainties of life. There are times when she wishes she could believe in "God and the Daily Mail and Mother India." Physiological studies do not wholly satisfy her. ("If you knew what was going on inside you, you would probably be bitterly offended.") In her quandary she is about to switch her allegiance from Otto (Mr. Lunt), a painter, to his good friend, playwriting...
...discovers Leo and Gilda comfortably sinning in an attractive London flat. Both, however, pine for their absent crony Otto. Gilda, it appears, is not so happy as she might be with Leo's theatrical success. While he is away at a houseparty, up bobs Otto, fresh from a voyage on a tramp steamer. "The circle has turned," says he, "and it's my turn now." But next morning Gilda leaves notes for both her lovers, goes off to Manhattan to marry an art broker and find, she hopes, peace. When Leo and Otto meet and read their letters...
...years later Gilda is inhabiting a gaudy penthouse full of Grand Rapids moderne furniture which she is selling to people with more money than taste. Suddenly in the midst of a party Leo and Otto appear, identically and immaculately clad in faultless evening dress. They have, it seems, been traveling. "You must forgive our clothes," says urbane Leo. "We just got off a freight boat." Soon the safely married Gilda succumbs to their witty charms, and when the art broker-husband returns from Chicago he is told that the three will resume their private offensive against the social code. While...
...Died. Gilda Ruta Cagnazzi, 79, one of history's few able female composers; in total obscurity, of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. A mother of two & widowed at 27, she turned to composing, wrote more than 125 compositions for piano & orchestra, played before Italy's Queen Margherita at Rome's Costanzi, won a gold medal at the International Exposition in Florence, ended her career giving piano lessons in Manhattan's Greenwich Village...
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: In Evanston, Ill., dancer Mariana Michalska (Gilda Gray) was enlisted to boost ticket sales for Northwestern Uni- versity's senior ball. A band played. Dancer Gray pranced. Northwesterners bought three tickets, suggested she take off her coat. She fled...