Perhaps, they suggested, she stole her extraordinary invention from the engineers employed by her first husband, Fritz Mandl, who manufactured torpedoes for Hitler and Mussolini.
This would come in handy later in her life, when she had fled her husband and headed for Hollywood, movies, more husbands and lovers — and the invention, in collaboration with the avant-garde composer George Antheil, of a Secret Communications System, which they patented in 1942.
Several historians and scientists simply refused to accept that Lamarr might have been responsible for the frequency-hopping idea.
Today, anyway, I seem to be well enough to head back to Mercia Lichfield, to be precise.
An image without veils rather chaste and modest by current standards we're used to something else! The film in question is Ecstasy, director Gustav Machatý, whose entrance halls aroused such a scandal as to cause the immediate intervention of the censorship, that banished for decades around the world.
These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene.