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...Navy since 1942, had a reunion with his energetic mother, Margaret Emerson, in Hawaii. The much-married (four times) Bromo-Seltzer heiress turned up as a Red Cross field worker, found that her 32-year-old millionaire-sportsman son looked less like a playboy...
Married. Gloria Baker Topping, 24, café-society glamor girl of 1937, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10.000.000); and Brigadier General Edward Harrison Alexander, 42, commander of the Caribbean wing of the Air Transport Command; she for the second time, he for the first; at Mor rison Field, West Palm Beach. Her marriage to Henry J. Topping Jr., tin-plate heir ($9,000,000), who is now a naval lieutenant overseas, ended in divorce last year...
Earlier they had only made him writhe. After a few guest spots on the air, in 1935 Hope landed a monologue for Bromo-Seltzer that was less fizz than fizzle. Tossed into a pallid Lucky Strike program early in 1938, he attracted attention but was hailed by Luckies' George Washing ton Hill as Bob Hopeless...
Divorced. Henry Junkins ("Bob") Topping Jr., 28, lion-shooting tin-plate heir ($9,000,000) ; and Latin-eyed Gloria ("Mimi") Baker Topping, 23, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10,000,000); after four years of marriage (his second); in Palm Beach. She got custody of Sandra Emerson Topping, 3, and Henry Junkins Topping...
...maelstrom of slapstick, song, blackout. episodes, old gags, new gags, confusion. That much of it is truly comic is testimony to the fact that Comedian Fields is one of the funniest men on earth. Whether he is offering a cure for insomnia ("Get plenty of sleep"), refusing a bromo ("couldn't stand the noise"), nasally vocalizing ("chickens have pretty legs in Kansas"), meticulously blowing the head off an ice cream soda, Fields is a beautifully timed exhibit of mock pomposity, puzzled ineffectualness, subtle understatement and true-blue nonchalance...