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By Hale Horton
num. Even it" her statements had been
true, I should not have been injured, tor 1 live in the present and look to the future, not to the past. 1 suppose I'll never discover her motive. Human beings do strange things at times.
How Elissa Resembles Elizabeth
BUT alter a moment of thought, Elissa added compassionately. '"Perhaps she needed the money, and in similar circumstances I might have done the same thing." So like Elissa! For while she detests crowds of all descriptions, she harbors great understanding and compassion for humanity. Which is only one of the many traits she has in common with her grandmother, the Empress Elizabeth of Austria.
Trulv remarkable is the resemblance between Elizabeth and Elissa, who, by the way, was christened Elizabeth and, when a child, shortened her name to Elissa. Photographs of Elissa and the Empress reveal a striking physical likeness. Elizabeth did, and Elissa does, fervently believe in aristocracy — Elizabeth in the aristocracy of blood, Elissa in the aristocracy of brains. They tally in everythi.ig. from their subtle arrogance and beauty to the reddish gold of their glorious hair. The Empress Elizabeth was profoundly intelligent, a world-renowned Greek scholar, a lover of the music of Wagner, and an expert horsewoman. At theage of six Elissa actually confounded priests by her theological questions, at the age of ten she was an accomplished Greek scholar, an expert horsewoman, and Wagner was one of her gods.
Improbable, you say, in a child so young? Perhaps, but only until you know the electric,
Elissa Landi discloses the truth about her ancestry in answer to an attack on her mother and herself
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Lett, Countess Zanardi-Landi, Elissa's mother— the daughter who was "(he secret of an Empress." and was born to Elizabeth of Austria at the Chateau de SassetcX (above) in 1882. Elissa here produces proof that her mother's story, often challenged, is undeniably true
vibrant quality of Elissa Landi's personality. It for only a moment you could talk with this amazing young
woman who has written four successful novels and risen to heights on both Stage and screen, you would not on J hail such improbable youthful accomplishments as hlghl) possible, but you would know her to be a woman who simply must have descended from the hai.ght lest house oi Europe. Furthermore, you would know that she is rai (Continued on pagr jo)