The payoff to all this work was evident in the reactions of the public. Recalled Ofelia, “I’ll never forget when Joan Crawford came with her husband, Alfred Steele. She grabbed my hand and held it, telling me over and over how the show had been the best thing that she’d ever seen and how the architecture and setting were magnificent. She asked to be taken backstage, and all the cast went crazy. The models were still in their gingham costumes with ribbons. [Crawford] was a legend, and she had her picture taken with the cast and told them that she had never seen anything as exciting or
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