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...hostess of the suburban dinner party last September, Miss Barrows, is a curly-headed blonde with a wide drooping mouth, a Vassar graduate and a divorcée. From 1914 to 1917 she was Dr. Wirt's assistant when he was reorganizing New York City's schools. Now she is a school building expert in the Office of Education. The other two women conform, like Miss Barrows, to a familiar Washington type: bright, obscure incumbents of small Government jobs, unmarried, unbeauteous as a rule, and with fairly elemental ideas about politics. Mary Taylor is editor...
...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...