found: De Mille, R. My secret mother, 1998:CIP t.p. (Lorna Moon) CIP galley 5, etc. (the lost mother of Richard de Mille; newspaperwoman, screenwriter, and best-selling novelist; born in a small fishing village in Scotland, but who had changed her name and built her career to become an exotic figure in the Hollywood of the silent film era; b. June 16, 1886; christened Helen Nora Wilson Low; everyone called her Nora; when Nora was 26, she became Lorna Moon)
found: Dict. of North Amer. authors deceased before 1950, 1951(Moon, Lorna, 1899-1930; novelist & short-story writer; b. Scotland 1899; d. Albuquerque NM, May 1, 1930)
found: Phone call to R. de Mille, Nov. 24, 1997(his mother, Lorna Moon, was born 1886, not 1899)