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Five decades had brought to it almost every great theater figure from Ellen Terry to Helen Hayes. On its stage Sarah Bernhardt played in Camille, Olga Nethersole in Carmen, Mrs. Fiske in A Doll's House, Julia Marlowe in When Knighthood Was in Flower, William Gillette in Sherlock Holmes, Katharine Cornell in The Barretts of Wimpole Street...
Says Georgia O'Keeffe of her flower paintings: "I am attempting to express what I saw in a flower which apparently others failed to see." For years people have been seeing all kinds pf things in O'Keeffe's flowers. Critic Lewis Mumford has seen a celebration of "almost every phase of the erotic experience." Said he: "Socrates learned about love from the priestess Diotima; but if he were alive today, he would probably go to O'Keeffe." Painter Oscar Bluemner has written: ". . . O'Keeffe steps forth as [an] . . . imaginative biologist of all creation . . . extending...
...aspiring actresses, she snaps: "It should be." Asked to compare her acting with Cornell's and Anderson's, she counters: "Do you say that Renoir is two inches behind Manet, or Degas a foot ahead?" She snarls at Nature: "I don't care if a flower grows upside down or inside out, I don't even care if it grows." She smacks down California: "It reminds me of a Shubert production." Unlike Actress Cornell, who has never made a movie, Actress Gordon has made several (The Edge of Darkness, Abe Lincoln in Illinois). Hollywood says...
Sued for Divorce. Army Glider Pilot Jackie Coogan, 28; by Flower Parry Coogan, 20, his second wife (first was Betty Grable); after 16 months; in Los Angeles...
Errol Flynn's wild oat (TIME, Oct. 26) may flower into a greater popularity than he has ever known. While Los Angeles justice pondered the case of Cinemactor Flynn (charged with statutory rape), the verdict of the cinemasses was warm, spontaneous and ribald. An audience that crowded San Francisco's Fox Theater to see Flynn's Desperate Journey had the time of its life...