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...Died. Ona Munson, 46, onetime musical comedy ingenue (No, No, Nanette) and cinemactress (Belle Watling of Gone With the Wind); by her own hand (sleeping pills); in Manhattan...
...Married. Ona Munson, 43, cinemactress (Belle Watling of Gone With the Wind); and Eugene Berman, 50, Russian-born painter and stage designer; she for the second time, he for the first; in Composer Igor Stravinsky's home in Los Angeles...
Down with Tyranny. One of the Ona sports was killing off members of strange tribes, but now & then they settled for huge intra-tribal wrestling matches. When Author Bridges heard that an Ona was going to challenge him, he trained for weeks, then bested his opponent when the match came off. But his most important asset was courage in the face of Ona threats. He once flabbergasted some savages, who had bought rifles for the purpose of killing him, by walking into their camp and reproaching them for their unfriendly attitude. Bridges frankly adds: "I have never felt more frightened...
...With Ona help, he laid a trail across Fuego's biggest island and established a large sheep ranch in the heart of Ona territory. In his years of camping out with the Indians, he learned more about them than any other white man. The Ona way of life, says Bridges, was "communistic"; there were no chiefs. A man owned his wives (usually two, one much older than himself and one much younger), his weapons and his clothing; he spent his time hunting or feuding with other tribes while his women fished, cooked, reared the children. The Ona believed...
...long while Author Bridges thought his savage friends believed in the spirits they imitated in their crude rituals; but the Ona opened his eyes by initiating him into the tribe's all-male lodge. There he heard that once upon a time the women had ruled the tribe with witchcraft, until the men, in desperation, had banded together and killed all the women. To forestall any attempt by growing girls to reestablish female tyranny, the men had "invented a new branch of Ona demonology: a collection of strange beings . . . who would take visible shape" and scare the women into...