According to the superintendent, E. J. Black, Miss Leigh, as he
knew her, lived there alone except for her maid, Lydia Carr, and
entertained few visitors.
Irving Wein, publicity director for Altamont Pictures, when
interviewed by a reporter in his rooms at the Cadillac Hotel late
today, said that Nita Leigh had been used for "bits" and as a
dancing "double" for stars in a number of recent pictures,
including "Night Life" and "Boy, Howdy!", both of which have
dancing sequences. Musical comedy programs for the last year carry
her name only once, in the list of "Ladies of the Ensemble" of the
revue, "What of it?"
Miss Eloise Pendleton, head-mistress of Forsyte-on-the-Hudson,
mentioned in the dispatches from Hamilton, confirms the report that
Mrs. Selim, as she was known there, twice directed the annual
Easter musical comedy presented by that fashionable school for
young ladies, but could add nothing of interest to the facts given
above, beyond asserting that Mrs. Selim had proved to be an
unusually competent and popular director of their amateur
theatricals.
"Yes, that's correct, as far as it goes," Lydia commented, resentment
strong in her harsh voice as she returned the paper to Dundee.
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