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Married? Winifred Lenihan, Theatre Guild actress ("Joan" in George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan); and Frank Walker Wheeler, assistant to the president of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.; in Manhattan. Marriage Revealed. Natacha Rambova, onetime wife of Cinemactor Rudolph Valentino; and Don Alvaro de Urzaiz, Spanish nobleman; 18 months ago; in Palma, Mallorca...
...which 100 ritual lights burned before a Tibetan shrine. The audience included turbanned Indians, grave Chinese, eager U. S. intellectuals, a brown woman with gems fastened in her nose, a plump white woman wearing a jingling Colombian Indian costume. Kermit Roosevelt dropped his eyes against curious stares. Natacha Rambova, white turbanned and weighted with gold invited the avid to her studio. Esoteric prattlers shook the Professor's hands and looked for cheese wafers to nibble. There were no refreshments...
...return to the exotic in art," remarked Miss Rambova, whose Georgian South Russian type of beauty is most exotic, "it was my first love. I followed it in my dancing and in my designing...
When asked her opinion of mystery plays Miss Rambova replied that they were most strenuous for the actress. "We are continually studying the audience," she said, "in order to get the right effect. So much depends on the little things. You must close a door with the most mysterious manner, there must be an added significance in the way you walk across the room. It is fun though to try and thrill the audience. Once the cast has them in its power we enter into the spirit of the thing and almost frighten ourselves. Again we have to rehearse...
...Miss Rambova mentioned her forthcoming biography of Valentino. "I have been everything but an authoress," she concluded...