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Owner of two swimming pools (one "last year's model"), star of He Kissed Her Twice and Bingo, Hope is cast as a craven, overpaid actor suffering from the approach of the draft. Marriage looks like his best out. but his selected victim, a colonel's daughter (Miss Lamour), suspects his intention. He stages a fake enlistment. It backfires him into the Army...
...said they would live obscurely. Dancers Tony and Renee de Marco seemed split for good when Renee left Manhattan last week, bound for "Florida ... or Reno." Maritally separated since 1938, they danced together until a few weeks ago. Now Veteran Tony, 41, has a new dancing partner, Sally Craven, whom he describes as "the kind of girl you want to . . . cuddle." Maria Farkas asked a California court to set aside the divorce she got from Director Alexander Korda twelve years ago. Korda married Merle Oberon nine years later, is still married to her. His ex-wife stated she really didn...
Roars. What burned up the broadcasting industry as much as anything was the manner in which FCC let fly. Dissenting Commissioner Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven, home sick in bed, had been assured nothing would happen till he got back. The report appeared on the day of the Kentucky Derby. Neville Miller, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, and NBC President Niles Trammell got the nasty news at Churchill Downs. CBS President William S. Paley was weekending on Long Island...
...Hicks the present choice is "between German fascism and British imperialism"; he prefers the latter, much as he admits and deplores its "Imperfections." To the editors, that is a craven doctrine; for "the issue is not aid to Britain against no aid to Britain, not British-American imperialism against German imperialism--it is imperialism against democracy...
Glamour Preferred (by Florence Ryerson & Colin Clements, produced by Brock Pemberton ) is a Hollywood story which for a few moments is highly engaging, thanks to the acting of Robert Craven as an ostensibly silly Englishman. He plays a warming love scene, and brings down the house with a line which should be immensely discouraging to women who dress-to-please-the-men. (To his wife about to put on evening clothes: "You'd better nip along and sling into your kit!") But like Beverly Hills and Quiet, Please!, which preceded it to Broadway by a fortnight, Glamour Preferred...