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...socially hard-to-get Aldous Huxley and Somerset Maugham. Describing the occasion, Fanny remarked, "Like jerks, we played parlor games." Most unusual of her guests is one Roger Davis, who dropped in on her in 1916, has been around ever since. She dotes on her two children (by Nicky Arnstein), is rated a good painter by the Chouinard Art Institute, which she attends. She never discusses past matrimonial ventures if she can help it. When she does, she is a little bitter about her last spouse, whom she refers to scornfully as "That Rose...
...hoping cinema, running into an injunction is as painful and prohibitive as tripping over a bat on the way to first. Fortnight ago Jules W. Arndt Stein (Nicky Arnstein), the husband who filled Fannie Brice's heart when she first sang the torch song My Man in 1920, sued for an injunction (and $250,000 damages) against the Twentieth Century-Fox cinema Rose of Washington Square, a take-off on Nicky's & Fannie's lives (TIME, June 5). This week, beating out the injunction by a nose, the studio attorneys got together with Nicky, settled his claim...
...Washington Square, in which Alice Faye redeems her swindler husband, Tyrone Power, by singing My Man from a Ziegfeld stage, wondered whether his foot had not slipped again (TIME, May 15). For My Man was introduced in 1920 by Ziegfeld Star Fannie Brice, when her second husband, Nicky Arnstein, was a fugitive on a swindling charge. After seeing Rose of Washington Square, Fannie Brice saw her lawyer. Last week from the owner of a sorer toe came a loud squeal...
Climax of Rose of Washington Square shows Actor Power, melted by My Man, turning himself in to plead guilty to a somewhat foggy charge, take a five-year prison sentence. Nicky Arnstein (real name: Jules W. Arndt Stein) turned himself in after his wife sang the song, was convicted of conspiracy to carry stolen securities into the District of Columbia, sentenced to two years in Leavenworth. After leaving prison the second time (he had been sent to Sing Sing for a securities deal in 1912), dapper Jules W. Arndt Stein tried the advertising business in Manhattan, was divorced, remarried, ended...
...Nicky Arnstein (real name: Jules W. Arndt Stein) also turned himself in, but did not plead guilty. After two trials he was convicted, sentenced to two years in Leavenworth...