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...Vegas' raucously elegant Sands Hotel last week more than two dozen Hollywood newspaper, magazine, TV and radio reporters gathered for an event: the wedding of Cinemactress Rita Hayworth and Crooner Dick Haymes, each headed altarward for the fourth time. Only Columnists Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper were missing. Louella, who traveled half way around the world four years ago to be at Rita's side when she married Aly Khan at Cannes, this time telephoned her blessings but was "too busy" to attend; Hollywood assumed that she had the word that Rita's studio, Columbia Pictures...
...Silly." Everything, including Nevada's courts, ran close to schedule. First, Crooner Haymes led a caravan of newsmen to the Las Vegas court, where in seven minutes flat he got a divorce from his third wife. ex-Cigarette Girl Nora Eddington, who had once been married to Errol Flynn. On the courthouse steps he responded to the command of a dozen photographers to "wave your decree," then set out to pick up his fiancee, trailed by newsmen and Pressagent Freeman, who kept booming out: "Is everybody happy?" At the license bureau, while Rita and Dick tried to sign papers...
Married. Rita Hayworth, 33, cinemactress (Salome); and Dick Haymes, 35, Argentine-born Hollywood crooner (One Touch of Venus); both for the fourth time; in Las Vegas, Nev. (see PRESS...
Little Boy Lost (Paramount). Bing Crosby, a seasoned performer who learned his footwork as second baseman for the Spokane Ideal Laundry's semi-pro team, has a startling way of turning up in unexpected places. Moviegoers who are used to Bing as a crooner and a light comedian may be startled to find him in this poignant tale about frustrated fatherhood...
After seven days of going their separate, well-publicized ways and living in different hotels, Crooner Frank Sinatra and his cinemactress wife Ava Gardner patched up their lovers' spat in his mother's New Jersey home. Later, when Ava caught Frankie's act at a Jersey nightclub, the New York Journal-American was pleased to report: "As their glances locked, thunder boomed and lightning flashed . . . The Voice unleashed a torrent of sound at the sultry Ava. Emotion poured from him like molten lava...