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...Dearest Mommie." But she was recklessly in love again-this time with lean, British-born Actor Rex Harrison, a man Hollywood had nicknamed "Sexy Rexy." One night last week, after Harrison had dined with her at her big Pacific Palisades house, Frances Ridste gulped a few fast highballs and wrote a note to her "Dearest Mommie." She scribbled: "Goodbye, my angel. Pray for me." She signed it, "Your Baby." Then she took a lethal handful of sleeping pills, sank to the bathroom floor, and died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Casually in Hollywood | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...Revenge." One morning last week, while Roy was off visiting friends in Scotland, the Farran family began its placid daily routine. Keith and Rex, who had refused to get up for breakfast, stayed in the house, while the others walked down the lane, amid spring blossoms and green shrubs, on their way to work. They met the postwoman, who said: "Nothing much for you this morning. Just a parcel." Said Mrs. Farran: "One of the boys will take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Death & the Captain | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Rex took the parcel and carried it into the living room. It was addressed to Roy, but he opened it. It contained a volume of Shakespeare. Rex probably never saw it, for it exploded as he undid it, tearing open his stomach and maiming his hands. As Rex lay dying in the hospital later, he asked: "Am I dying like a Farran?" His last words were: "No revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Death & the Captain | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Habimah's other Broadway offerings: David's Crown, The Golem, Oedipus Rex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Visitors from Palestine | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Chiefly an attempt to turn base metals into gold by chemical means. **The other two: Oedipus Rex, Tom Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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