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During the preparations for the Valentino funeral in 1926, Stanley blew into the Hotel Ambassador carrying a little bag. He knocked at the suite of Valentino's bereaved lover, Pola Negri, told the maid he was a physician and introduced himself to Miss Negri as a close friend of Valentino's. "Rudy would have wanted me to take care of you, my dear," Miss Negri later reported his saying. "You are very thoughtful," she replied...
...killings shocked even homicide-squad detectives. Said one: "It looked like a battlefield up there." Police said that every room in the house showed signs of a struggle. The victims appeared to have been dead for about twelve hours when they were discovered in the morning by a maid, Winifred Chapman, who ran screaming to neighbors for help. "This is a tough one," a detective said at first. "We don't have anything but bodies." But the police soon had more than that. They arrested William Garretson, 19, a caretaker who lived in a guesthouse on the property...
...brought to portraiture. He used his brush like a surgeon's scalpel, exposing old wounds, concealed ambitions, ill manners. The commissions he did receive often ended unpleasantly; his studio was littered with rejected portraits. One fashionable lady, dismayed at what was taking shape on canvas, asked if her maid might finish the sittings...
...lady was vacationing at Cap-Martin on the Riviera and doing her usual best to frustrate a curious world. Early each morning before Greta Garbo, 63, came down for a swim, a maid would appear to case the beach for prowling photographers. If the place was deserted, the maid would deliver an "all-clear" signal and Garbo would appear in a white terry-cloth wrap and plunge in for a brief, ever-watchful dip. Security broke only long enough for some quick shots by a long-lens camera that recorded the famous face, still beautiful despite advancing...
...silver for the maid-Copper for the craftsman