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He won the English Derby and the Grand Prix. His horse My Love is fabulous. This season he bought the forrner Maxine Elliott property “Chateau d’ I’Horizon” and immediately did it over in a luxuriously gracious style. He stocked his garage with handsome motor cars. He had bought motor boats. And his airplane brought his guests from London and Paris. I introduced him to Rita and it was evident from the beginning, that he was deeply interested. He insisted that she and her secretary join him and his other guests at the chateau. And, thereafter, every morning he and his house guests and his two sons by his English wife, from whom he is separated, drove in his station wagon to Eden Roc for the swimming hour. Rita, obviously, was entranced. Any woman would be. In fact she overstayed her holiday time and did not return to the United States until she was commandeered by her studio. Unquestionably this romance continues. I predict that when Ali Khan comes over to race his stable at Belmont Park and probably Santa Anita, he will go first to Hollywood to see Rita. However, even should ah be divorced from his English wife, I doubt that he and Rita will marry. They get on well enough. But it would not do considering the big position he will inherit from his father. Rita has grown wiser in the last year, I think. When I am with her I have the feeling that she. has matured. Undoubtedly she still loves Orson Welles, in a fashion. I think, too, that Ali Khan caught her on the rebound after she had learned of Orson’s devotion to the Italian actress. Lea Padovani. I had a note from Rita after she dined with me. It came with flowers, dozens of white gladioli. “Dear Elsa,” she wrote, “Your party was sensational. Would so like to come out to the farm and see you. Love, Rita.” She came. And we talked of Orson. He had called her from Rome the previous day. He was, he had said, coming to Cannes to see her and Darryl Zanuck. Darryl wanted to talk to him about playing in “Prince of Foxes,” the Tyrone Power-Wanda Hendrix film being produced in Rome. “You love Orson, don’t you, Elsa?” Rita asked. I agreed that I did. “He is a bad boy sometimes,” I admitted. “But I always seem to forgive him. Because he has more charm than most. Also I make excuses for him because I think his touch of genius separates him from his fellowmen and causes him to act differently.” Then, point blank, I asked, “You love him too, don’t you, Rita?” She nodded. “I always will,” she said gently, “even though our troubled married life will end in November when our divorce becomes final. I am glad I have a souvenir of that life in Rebecca. She has her father’s brains, Elsa.” “I hope,” I said, “that she looks like you.” Rita laughed. “She has Orson’s forehead. But we can cover that with her hair easily enough. She is such a wonderful little creature. She never stays angry with anyone for more than a minute. And she has an imagination and talent that I hope will equal her father’s.” I asked Rita how her telephone conversation with Orson had gone. “Wonderfully well,” she said. “When Orson talked of his chicken pox I told him about my anemia And when he complained of his kidney trouble, I described my blood transfusion. Whereupon we both laughed at ourselves and at each other!” During one of the nights that Orson was at Cannes, I dined with him and Rita. He had just completed “Cagliostro” in Rome and was planning to make “Pirandello.” He told Rita and me about the villa he had bought for a song in the Tuscan hills. “The first thing that met my eyes when 1 entered my beautiful new home,” he boomed, “were pictures of Rita as Gilda painted all over my walls. It was a terrible thing to do away with Rita,” he looked straight at her, “but I did it!” He went on. “My three people at the villa, my cook, gardener and maid, also smg the song Rita sang in ‘Gilda.’ They prefer that terrible music to their folk songs. It is to be deplored!” Later, m Venice, I saw Orson again and met his Lea Padovani. She dominates him as Linda Christians dominates Tyrone Power — and I doubt any woman ever dorninated Orson Welles before. This domination may be good for his soul. I like Lea Padovani. Her life has been hard. She was seventeen when the war broke out and after she was often penniless and sometimes she was hungry. “It is a most horrible thing,” she told us as we moved slowly dovm the Canal, “to have your country occupied by the enemy. Until I met Orson, I hated all men. But Orson — he is good!” I had thought when I left my farm that I would attend the Tyrone Power-Linda Christian marriage in Rome. Ty had asked me to be there. But the marriage, as you know, was postponed. I think this was occasioned when the Church thought Ty should wait until his divorce from Annabella was final. That will come in January when he also will have completed “Prince of Foxes” and he and Linda can have a real honeymoon. Linda, in Rome, leased one of the buildings on Countess Di Frasso’s estate, “Villa Madonna.” There, on the day her marriage to Tyrone was to have taken place, she gave a big luncheon. Which was unusual because she and Ty attend few parties, preferring to live quietly. Tyrone is extraordinarily proud of Linda. He told me, at a dinner Darryl Zanuck gave at Cannes in midseason, that when he and Linda were in Spain, she had spoken the language with scarcely any accent. She speaks several other languages too, fluently. All of which is due to her Geneva convent education. Pius the fact that she is very smart. She knew Europe, of course, far better than the other Hollywood citizens, including Tyrone. You would not expect her to have the whip hand over Tyrone, as she has, because she is quiet in manner. In fact, when meeting people, she seems rather indifferent. She reminds me always of a mountain lioness. Strong, quiet, sure and fascinatingly attractive. I found myself watching her. And there never was a time when I didn’t think her the most chic woman in the room. No wonder Lana Turner did not look happy the night she and Bob Topping found themselves at the cafe where Darryl Zanuck was dining Ty and Linda. She did not, I am sure, enjoy her splendid view of Ty’s straight black back. But then Topping did not look happy either. I wonder about this marriage now that the word is out that a baby will arrive next spring. Lana and Bob look bored when they are alone together and the rumor that their marriage is on the rocks followed them everywhere. Lana was not a success on the Riviera. Neither was Sonja Henie. Although Sonja did astonish everyone by her skill at water-skiing, a new sport for her. Generally, however, our motion picture stars and producers enjoyed the same enthusiasm with which they were welcomed. Next year they’ll return, I think, in greater numbers. I’m beginning to regret that no extra leaves can be added to the old stone mill wheel that serves as my dining table. The End