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...CINEMA EDITOR, IN THE AUG. 31 ISSUE, ANNOUNCED THAT RITA HAYWORTH HAS JUST COMPLETED "THE STORY OF MARY MAGDALENE." HE IS SEVERAL MONTHS AHEAD OF OUR SCHEDULE. SHE IS NOW COMPLETING TITLE ROLE IN "MISS SADIE THOMPSON," SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S CLASSIC . . . "MARY MAGDALENE" AND "THE KING'S MISTRESS," THE STORY OF LOLA MONTEZ, ARE BOTH ON HER FUTURE SLATE...
...Hostess, mistress, mother of Nohant was the famed George Sand, the beautiful woman who walked like a handsome man. It was far more than her literary eminence that drew the brilliant men of a generation to Nohant-though she fascinated a wide public with what she wrote, and left collected works that ran to 96 volumes. Her personality and the world she built around it were of such fascination and complexity that scores of guidebooks have served only to complicate the intricacy. France's André Maurois has now written a biography that is both the finest study ever...
...Audrey opened at Manhattan's Fulton Theater in the title role of Gilbert Miller's production of Gigi, a sophisticated Gallic story of a 16-year-old French tomboy who dreams of bourgeois marriage while her female relatives train her to become a rich man's mistress. Next day the New York Times's Critic Brooks Atkinson wrote: "Miss Hepburn is the one fresh element in the performance. She is an actress; and, as Gigi, she develops a full-length character from artless gaucheries in the first act to a stirring emotional climax in the last...
...closer, Hitler's audience dwindled to his female secretaries, his hard-drinking adjutant, his quack doctor and his vegetarian cook. They had heard his theories many times before and were bored, but they sat helplessly drowsing into the morning, a captive audience. Only Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress, ever did anything about it. She would pointedly ask the Führer the time. Hitler usually took the hint and closed the window on the refuse-laden backyard of his mind...
...sullen face of a neglected wife, or else I'd have skimped my duties. That's why it's better not to get married. The bad side of marriage is that it creates rights. In that case, it's far better to have a mistress. The burden is lightened, and everything is placed on the level of a gift." As a listener looked unhappy, Hitler added: "What I've said applies only to men of a higher type, of course...