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...Juliet cap of pearls; the groom wore a .45 automatic and a ponytail hairdo. Some 2,500 guests thronged the palm-thatched dance-hall restaurant of Santiago's suburban Rancho Club Motel. Thus one afternoon last week Raul Castro, 27, rebel commander in Oriente province, married Vilma Espin, 28, onetime chief of the rebels' Oriente underground in a civil ceremony performed by a Santiago rebel attorney...
...Vilma, a willowy brunette, studied chemical engineering at Oriente University, and topped that off with a year at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Under the nom de guerre Deborah, she bossed the rebels' underground, then moved to the hills and joined Raul's column. The two worked together but lived apart, with Vilma's quarters chastely protected by four guards and Raul's posted order: "Please do not pass through here." Together they shared some lively experiences, including the kidnaping of 47 U.S. servicemen and civilians (TIME, July...
Clara Bow, Billie Dove and Vilma Banky took bows in Hollywood when Body-Builder Terry Hunt complained in print: "It's not a pleasant word, but most . . . actresses . . . are too skinny." Clara and Billie and Vilma, recalled Hunt wistfully, "had well-filled faces with character. You could tell them apart...
...bizarre rigmarole about a desert scion who kidnaps a dancing girl (Vilma Banky), The Son of the Sheik delighted audiences of its day .chiefly because it permitted the most famed matinee idol in cinema history to play a dual role-the Sheik and the Sheik's son, who is finally rescued by the Sheik from a cutthroat gang. Immediate consequence of its successful revival was naturally a race between proprietors of other old Valentino pictures to get their products to the screen. Also on view was The Sheik (1921), which, as an example of an even cruder school...
Also imported from London with Veteran Buchanan are Evelyn Laye and Adele Dixon, the unreasonable lasses who refuse to share one man's love. Both of them pour forth their hearts like English skylarks, both are pretty as English hawthorn. Vilma Ebsen,* an all-American periwinkle, dances engagingly with Charles Walters...