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...stage, it was Lily Pons wearing diamonds and emeralds, and singing in Valentina-designed costumes, one of which showed her navel. A detective stood in the wings, guarding the jewels. In the audience, a gem-barnacled first-nighter, Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, was watched over by a gun-toting bodyguard, but managed to lose a bracelet...
Mickey Devine, ex-showgirl who won a million-dollar divorce settlement from auto heir Horace E. Dodge Jr., lost a court fight with an old bodyguard named Mae Andrews, who complained that she had ten months' back wages coming to her. Mickey told the jury Miss Andrews was just a house guest who "stayed on & on." Not so, said Miss Andrews; she had been hired to protect beautiful Mickey during her million-dollar fight-hired to protect her from violence, frame-ups, and from her own strong bias towards the opposite sex. Among Miss Andrews' body-minding duties...
...story: the husband (Dan Duryea) of a murdered blackmailer (Constance Dowling) and the wife (June Vincent) of the man condemned as the killer, try to find out who really did it. In the process they mix with Homicide Squad Captain Broderick Crawford, Night club Owner Peter Lorre, and Bodyguard Freddie Steele. They also whisk through a lot of the nicely observed detail which more pretentious movies usually miss. Samples: Duryea 's mannerisms as a dipsomaniac jazz pianist; Michael Brandon showing how a grade-A Hollywood columnist acts, and is treated, on a visit to a grade-B hot spot...
Three on a Train. A Daily News truck delivered the morning papers each day to Eagle Bay. Publisher Patterson and his regal, grey-haired second wife, the former Mary King,* read them while breakfasting in bed. Daily, they caught a commuters' train to Manhattan, with a bodyguard riding the seat behind them. At the office, where Mrs. Patterson was women's editor and fiction buyer, her husband paid morning calls on the Sunday room, city room, picture department...
...Broadway these heavenly days, angels are everybody in general. Said Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas (producer of Broadway's newest smash hit, Call Me Mister) to Columnist Lucius Beebe: "You can't keep the investors off you with Flit or a bodyguard. They secrete themselves around your hotel apartment. . . . Total strangers . . . stuff wads of currency in the pocket of your jacket...