Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Jesse Louis Lasky, 77. pioneer moviemaker who cranked out (in 1914) Hollywood's first feature-length film (The Squaw Man) in a barn studio; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills. After his first movie venture (with a brother-in-law, Glove Salesman Samuel Goldfish, now Goldwyn. and...
Into Lady Blessington's London salon one evening in 1846 marched "a little man, four and a half feet high . . . with huge moustaches and pigs' eyes." He was Prince Louis Napoleon, nephew of the great Bonaparte, pretender to the French throne and newly escaped from the French fortress...
The destined pair exchanged confidences. Blushing Miss Howard confessed that her life was not free from stain: an evil man had taken advantage of her sweet nature-with the result that, though only 23, she had one illegitimate son in the fashionable London district of St. John's Wood...
Simone Andre Maurois, wife of the famed French biographer, tells the full, fabulous story of Miss Howard and Louis Napoleon for the first time. It has not been told accurately before because Actress Howard, with understandable shyness, told lots of little fibs and falsified lots of little registers.
Louis Napoleon, himself an inveterate liar, was not told about all these girlish pranks, nor was he interested in them. For two idyllic years Miss Howard sheltered Louis in her London house, financed his exile's finaglings and plottings. When Louis Philippe was deposed and France became a republic...