It was a time when many talented people were landing in Los Angeles where talented people weren’t supposed to go, and the Babitz home, at the foot of the Hollywood Hills, boiled over with magical intelligences. Regular parties and picnics were attended by the likes of Eve’s godfather, Igor Stravinsky (who was regularly “slipping” Eve “glasses of scotch under the table” after she turned 13), or Arnold Schoenberg, Bertrand Russell, Fats Waller, Charlie Chaplin, Kenneth Patchen, Marilyn Horne and even the Huxleys. For Eve, daily life was filled with all the same beauty and cultural splendor she enjoyed at the movies with her matinee idols, such as Marilyn Monroe and Valentino, or with the fiercely lovely girls of Hollywood High, whom she immortalized in one of her best and earliest stories, “The Sheik”:
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times