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Divorced. Actor Laurence Olivier (Wuthering Heights, No Time for Comedy) ; by Actress Jill Esmond, who named Vivien Leigh (Gone With the Wind) as co-respondent (three weeks earlier Herbert Leigh Holman's divorce petition named Olivier); in London...
Olivier's wife, British Actress Jill Esmond, recently filed a divorce suit in England, named no corespondent. In London Cinemactress Leigh's husband, Barrister Herbert Leigh Holman, after vain efforts to bring her back to himself and their six-year-old daughter, last week started divorce proceedings. Grounds: misconduct. Corespondent: Laurence Olivier...
...somebody would brush the dust off this old scarehead. A small new company brought the title up to date as Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, tacked it to a film about the horrors of concentration camps. The picture might have been spurlos versenkt itself had not worried Director Irwin Esmond-of N. Y. State's Education Department (Motion Picture Division) called it "inhuman, sacrilegious and tending to incite to crime." New York censors promptly banned it, almost as quickly reversed their ban after the title was changed to Beasts of Berlin, some 67 feet were...
...According to Dr. Esmond Ray Long of Philadelphia, the type of T. B. which strikes Negroes, most susceptible group in the U. S. population to respiratory diseases, is the same as that which strikes whites. T. B. develops and spreads more quickly among Negroes, and they die more quickly...
Romilly, Winston Churchill's 18-year-old nephew, scandalized his Tory family by packing off to Spain to fight for the Loyalists. The Hon. Jessica Lucy ("Decca") Freeman-Mitford, 19, second-youngest of the six beauteous daughters* of Baron Redesdale, scandalized her equally Tory family by joining Esmond. Fuming, Baron Redesdale made Decca a ward in chancery, thus making it illegal for any Englishman to marry her without the High Court's consent. Decca and Esmond cocked a long-distance snook, cried: "We both regard marriage mainly as a convenience. . . ." (Few months later they compromised with convention...