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...LAND AND THE WELL (243 pp.)-Hilda Wernher, with Huthi Singh-John...
Married. Baron Louis de Rothschild, 64, polo-playing former president of the Kreditanstalt, one-year Gestapo prisoner after Hitler's Anschluss; and Countess Hilda Auersperg, 44, onetime Austrian who became an American citizen; he for the first time, she for the third; in Locust Valley...
...University of Mexico, where she studied sedulously, a professor asked: "But Señorita Kruger, you go to school day and night and you also act in the cine; when do you find time to do your spying?" Weekending in summery Cuernavaca, Hilda was called on by the town police. Hotel servants had dug out of her luggage suspicious accounts of troop movements: notes from her university course on Cortés' conquest of Mexico...
...artist and intellectual, Hilda now shuns Ciro's bar and others of the gayer spots. Except for a lingering lunch at the quiet Ambassadeurs, she sticks to her comfortable apartment in tree-graced Calle Londres. The deep blue walls assuage her spirit, set off her shining blonde hair...
Tragic Destiny was not likely to upset any literary reputations. The story of the demimondaine who sparked the Paraguayan Napoleon to dreams of empire and simultaneous war with Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil had been better and more fully told in English (William E. Barrett: Woman on Horseback). But Hildas thin volume was good reading and it might sell to Mexican movies. If it did, Hilda the actress would undoubtedly want to go with...