livelymorgue:Feb. 27, 1924: The French actress Cécile Sorel, dwarfed by the “massive, woman-headed, lion-bodied mystery of the ages,” the Sphinx in Egypt. Ms. Sorel, like the enigmatic sphinx, was a source of fascination, if headlines in The Times

livelymorgue:Feb. 27, 1924: The French actress Cécile Sorel, dwarfed by the “massive, woman-headed, lion-bodied mystery of the ages,” the Sphinx in Egypt. Ms. Sorel, like the enigmatic sphinx, was a source of fascination, if headlines in The Times

livelymorgue:Feb. 27, 1924: The French actress Cécile Sorel, dwarfed by the “massive,