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Divorced. By Gypsy Rose Lee, 29, ecdysiast and author, whose baby is expected in February (TIME, Aug. 28) : Actor Alexander Kirkland, 40, her second husband, after over two years of marriage; on grounds of mental cruelty; in Reno...
Heart-faced, carrot-topped Edna Margaret Cox (Stripteaser Margie Hart, "The Poor Man's Garbo") disclosed that since last July 4 she had been married to Army Lieut. Seaman Jacobs, her express agent. Now trouping in the play Cry Havoc, Ecdysiast Edna explained why she had stopped stripping: "It just isn't right for a married woman to do that kind of work...
...nonsense concerns Grant's rather natural interest in the little ecdysiast gone good via marriage to one of Der Fuehrer's greasier agents. Fifth-columnist Slezak and bride tour Europe on a sort of official honeymoon, with newshawk Cary watchfully in tow. In no time at all countries begin to fall, and with them the plausibility of the film. What had been witty dialogue now falls flat, what started out to be a whirlwind plot is slowed by refugees and the agonies of captive peoples. Director McCarey makes no attempt to eliminate the more sordid elements from the story...
Against Gypsy Rose (The G-String Murders) Lee a suit for $5,000 and half the G-Siring royalties was filed by Harper's Bazaar Associate Editor Dorothy Wheelock, who charged she collaborated with the ecdysiast on "a literary work with a burlesque-theater background," found a publisher for it, and was then ditched. Gypsy says the editor wrote "a sample book," but not G-String...
...Ecdysiast Gypsy Rose Lee last week almost achieved a literary ambition. She all but bought the Police Gazette. ("Everything about it appeals to me. I liked the name, I liked the pink cover, I liked the meat & potatoes Americana it prints...