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Lillian was too young to suspect that kindly "Doc" Field, who was more repressed than most of the characters in Before the Sun Goes Down, had been secretly in love with her mother for nearly 20 years, and even kept a bridal bed made up in hopeful readiness. While waiting, "once a year in New York [Doc] found a woman whose body was slim and whose hair was fair and whose eyes were grey and he took her to bed, and for an instant out of all time he let himself believe that her flesh was the color of ripe...
They shared the space with a publicity man who sat between them on a jump seat. Next evening, air-shaken and weary, they stood through a publicity cocktail party before going to their bridal suite, where they were now & again called to the door by bellhops delivering champagne and other charivarious gifts. By week's end, the Curtsingers' haul included a five-diamond wedding ring, a bridal bouquet with orchids, a Hollywood-New York round-trip flight, a week in a hotel, a set of sterling silver, a vacuum cleaner and a whirl of nightclubs and shows...
Married. Captain Mildred Helen McAfee, 45, director of the WAVES, pres- ident of Wellesley College; and Congregationalist Rev. Dr. Douglas Horton, 54; she for the first time, he for the second; in Jaffrey, N.H. The bridal gown had a hint of Navy rank: tailored white crepe with gold buttons and gold belt...
Catering to San Francisco's upper middle class, paternalistic, 79-year-old O'Connor, Moffatt's has displayed its wares in a subdued, take-it-or-leave-it fashion, seldom allowed promotion to go beyond coy plugs for its bridal department, shied shudderingly from any stock line, ad, or antic smacking of the sensational. Example: last year O'C.M. turned down an Adrian-designed dress line as "too Hollywood"; the rival City of Paris across the street snapped it up, did handsomely...
Married. James ("Jimmy") Dunn, 43, now taking a second hitch at cinema stardom in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; and Edna Rush, 37, radio singer (Philadelphia's "Miss Television" of 1931); he for the third time, she for the second; in Philadelphia. Bridal attendant: A Tree's Author Betty Smith...