Word: bandsman
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...Bandsman Tommy Dorsey let it be known, through his business representative, that he had separated from his second wife, Actress Pat Dane. Barrel-chested Cinemactor Brian Donlevy got a divorce after complaining that his wife 1) had been complaining for ten years, and 2) had been so busy for the past three years that he could never get a date with her. Greer Garson, 38, officially announced her separation from her second husband, Actor Richard Ney, 28 (who played her son in Mrs. Miniver). "Like many other married couples," Miss Garson observed, "we have had difficulties...
Artie Shaw, whose previous two wives were Lana Turner and Jerome Kern's daughter, Elizabeth, said that he was now separating from Mickey Rooney's exwife, Ava Gardner, after eight months of it. The bandsman explained: "We simply got on each other's nerves...
Artie Shaw, bandsman divorced in 1944 by Composer Jerome Kern's daughter, Elizabeth (Shaw's fourth), was ordered by a Los Angeles court to get up $4,000 back alimony-two months' payments...
...Elizabeth ("Princess Pearl") married a jazz bandsman; Nancy Valerie ("Princess Baba") married and was divorced by a wrestler. Elizabeth, awaiting a divorce, may next marry New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Richards Vidmer, friend of Leonora's Tompkins...
Reported Missing. Major Glenn Miller, 39, begoggled, popular trombonist and bandsman, leader of the Army Air Forces Band currently entertaining in Paris; while a passenger on a flight from England to Paris. Born in Clarinda, Iowa. Miller played with Ben Pollack, the Dorsey Bros., Ray Noble; in 1939 he became king of the juke boxes...