Word: divorce
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this display of misery at the country club, Irene Dunne is a smug painter married to a bovine playboy (Ralph Bellamy). When she makes a picture of three trees standing on a hillside to symbolize themselves and their small son, he resumes an old romance with a handsome young divorcée (Constance Cummings). This leads to adjustments in which 1) Ralph Bellamy punches Constance Cummings; 2) Irene Dunne smashes a picture frame on Ralph Bellamy...
Married. Stanley Marshall Rinehart, Manhattan publisher (Farrar & Rinehart), son of Novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart; and Frances Yeatman Goossens, London-born divorcée; in Greenwich, Conn...
...inheritances. Last week's law had one of its roots in the famed Erlanger-Fixel case (TIME. Dec. 28. 1931). Early in 1930 Abraham Lincoln Erlanger, wealthy theatre man, died, bequeathing to his brother and sisters an estate estimated at $75,000,000.* In 1912 he had been divorced, forbidden to remarry in New York State. At his death appeared a buxom ex-chorus girl named Charlotte Pixel who. as "Mrs. Erlanger," contested the will. The trial lasted for twelve weeks before Surrogate John Patrick O'Brien, now Mayor of New York. Charlotte Pixel called 125 witnesses...
...Bruce Blakeley (Harvey Stephens) to support and abet his trying tribe. When his business blessedly fails, he evokes not their sympathy but their ungrateful scorn. Whereupon he does what he has been trying to do all the time, marries his divorcée sweetheart (Katherine Alexander, no kin to Ross), rids himself of his family responsibilities. The party, he tells them in a forceful farewell address, is over...
Sinaia. in the mountains north of Bucharest, is the snug retreat of Rumania's King Carol. Hostess there during the Jugoslav royal visit was Divorcé Carol's sister, ex-Queen Elisabeth of Greece. Italian newsorgans were furious. Rumania lately turned down a proposal by Benito Mussolini that she sign a treaty pledging assistance to Italy in case of a war with Jugoslavia. From Italy's standpoint the Rumanian Government, by consenting to a Jugoslavian state visit, was offering a rebuff to Italy, putting Il Duce's political nose out of joint...