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Berle, Betty Mutton, Edward G. Robinson, Jane Froman, Joe E. Lewis, got up to reminisce about buxom Sophie Abuza of Hartford, Conn., who became Sophie Tucker and made the long haul from singing in the ginmills to the Ziegfeld Follies and the big time. Now pushing 70 and white-thatched, "The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas" will soon open a four-week stint at Manhattan's Latin Quarter. Said she, dabbing her eyes: "Some of the showmen who were around when I began, they're still around, dearie, but very few of the women are around." Sophie...
White Witch Doctor (20th Century-Fox), based on the 1950 novel, pits Missionary Nurse Susan Hayward against African tarantulas, black-magic practitioners and warlike natives. Without any noticeable change from her recent performances as Jane Froman and Mrs. Andrew Jackson, Susan manages to remain gracious, composed and well-groomed as she triumphs over all obstacles to bring hygiene to the jungle. Robert Mitchum plays an intrepid hunter who gives her a helping hand, but the best acting in the film is done by an actor named Charles Gemora, who plays a gorilla...
...Jane Froman's $2,500,000 damage suit against Pan American World Airways for injuries in a 1943 Lisbon crash (TIME, March 23) ended last week. For her crippled leg, Miss Froman got $8,300; for her lost luggage, $750. Accordionist Gypsy Markoff, who had sought $1,000,000 for her own injuries and lost luggage, received $9,580. Jane's ex-husband, Donald Ross, who had asked $100,000, got nothing. The directed verdict gave Plaintiffs Froman and Markoff the maximum allowable under the Warsaw Convention, which sets a ceiling for international air-accident damages, except...
...Jane Froman's subsequent struggles were amply retold in last year's Hollywood extravaganza, With a Song in My Heart. Her right leg was nearly severed, and for weeks she was near death. Then began a slow, painful recovery which included 25 operations, years in wheelchairs and on crutches. Finally she walked onstage again, but she still needs a heavy, ugly brace (she is now a $4,000-a-week TV star). In 1948 Jane divorced her husband, Singer Donald Ross, a month later married Pilot John C. Burn, a fellow survivor of the Lisbon crash...
...Jane Froman's supporting cast last week were Accordionist Gypsy Markoff, another Clipper victim, who asked $1,000,000 for her own injuries and loss of income, and Jane's ex-husband Ross, who sued for $100,000, to cover her hospital bills and his own loss of her company. The three had lost an early round, in 1949, when Pan Am's lawyers invoked the Warsaw Convention, a 1929 international agreement which sets a ceiling of $8,291.67 damages in an international flight accident. Now the suits charge that Pan American Pilot R. O. D. Sullivan...