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Gloria Swanson, 45, high-styled siren of the silents, complained to a Manhattan court that since her fifth husband had left her she had been living on borrowed money, and now she wanted $1,000-a-week support. William N. Davey, 52, who married her in January and left her in April, charged that she had misrepresented her debts and had failed to tell him before the marriage that she needed an expensive operation, and now he wanted an annulment. Gloria argued Wall Streeter Davey's ability to pay: he kept a $100,000-a-year yacht...
...Break. Last week Bertram Campbell, now a $50-a-week bookkeeper, was suddenly and dramatically cleared; proved, at last, was the fact that he had not been the forger. The culprit was none other than Alexander D. L. Thiel, the horseplaying, narcotic-spurred wizard of forgery who in some 40 years had left a $500,000 trail of bogus checks over the U.S. (TIME, April...
...Last week, the man with the key paid his first visit to Hollywood. To woo him, the gilded city turned out as it never had - clear down to its $500-a-week writers...
...demand as a $2,500-a-week screen writer, but is strictly undazzled; he walked out on a polishing job (Mil dred Pierce) at that pay as soon as he learned that Jack Warner requires his writers to show up at 9 : 30 and leave...
...Gerald David Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), 20, nephew of Britain's George VI, was praised by his regimental sergeant major as a democratic, model soldier. There was only one complaint against Private Lascelles: his superiors could not persuade him to make the usual $4-a-week allotment to his mother, the Princess Royal...