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When her ex-husband, Actor Burgess Meredith, sued in Manhattan for a $200,000 slice of what was once "community property," Cinemactress Paulette Goddard asked the Supreme Court in Manhattan for some advice. A Mexican divorce had been good enough when she divorced Charlie Chaplin, but didn't the court think that her Mexican divorce from Meredith was illegal? Couldn't she sue all over again in New York and claim that Meredith has been living in sin with his fourth wife, Dancer Kaja Sundsten...
Opening night at the new Parisian-revue Voila glittered with bright stars of the international carriage trade. Trailing white satin, diamonds and lanky Hollywood Cowboy Gary Cooper, French Cinemactress Gisele Pascal showed up without her steady escort, Monaco's Prince Ranier III. Tubby ex-King Farouk shied at photographers ("Please, no pictures. I'm here incognito!"). Oldtime Singer Maurice Chevalier ogled the crowd, happily concluded, "Everybody, but everybody is here tonight...
...Angeles court, Cinemactor John (The Quiet Man) Wayne cried the financial blues as his estranged wife, onetime Mexican Cinemactress Esperanza Baur, demanded $9,000 a month (he is offering $900) while her separate maintenance suit is being decided. Besides all the expenses of stardom, said Wayne, he had to cope with taxes and an extravagant wife. "I know it sounds ridiculous." sighed the cinema heman, whose 1952 income was estimated at $500,000 by his wife, but he and Mrs. Wayne "just couldn't make ends meet...
...riot squad was called out in Naples to quiet down a mutinous theater audience and remind Crooner Frank Sinatra that the show must go on. Billed to appear with his cinemactress wife Ava Gardner, Frankie had already left a matinee crowd grumbling by showing up without Ava (supposedly ailing in Milan). The excitable evening customers, who had paid $5 to $7.50 for their seats, hooted and hollered when Sinatra - still solo - walked off after singing one song. Police restored or der, persuaded him to finish...
...Cinemactress Gene Tierney and Aly Khan (who was divorced last January by Rita Hay worth) were winding up a three-week holiday at his Irish "hiding place"-a 700-acre stud farm outside the tiny village of Kilcullen. Newsmen, dutifully noting the first morning that a maid was pulling the curtains in Gene's room while an electric razor buzzed four windows away, kept close watch but could report nothing more than a circumspect round of sightseeing through the countryside, hand-holding beside a lake, a visit to Dublin's Royal Theater and the prince's victory...