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...Paul Reynaud was grateful, served as best man when, only eight weeks ago, the dying financier surprised everyone by marrying a tall, dark, 21-year-old Brazilian girl named Marie Antoinette Reiss. The marriage was as doomed as Fritz Mannheimer's bank. The groom had a heart attack during the ceremony, was revived with two injections to get through it. Recently he fainted in the French Finance Ministry. Twenty-four hours after his death the bank announced it was suspending payments. Immediately Paul Reynaud announced that the French Government was in no way affected, that all Mendelssohn contracts...
...Sothern, dyed her brown hair to varying blonde shades, got nowhere in particular. RKO took her over, let her hair drift back to its natural shade, called her a "brownette," let her endorse Luckies, put her in fancy comedy (Smartest Girl in Town, Walking on Air, There Goes the Groom). This winter Cinemactress Sothern made up her pert mind to try something different. In Trade Winds (TIME, Dec. 26), she started her traipse back to earth...
...Actress Davis plucks every heartstring she can lay a finger on, under Edmund Goulding's delicate, direction she makes Dark Victory moving but not morbid. The picture allows pretty, able newcomer Geraldine Fitzgerald (Wuthering Heights) to put a shapely foot forward, gives Humphrey Bogart, as an Irish groom who loves Judith for her breeding, a chance to act without a gun up his sleeve. Memorable sequence: Judith trying to put her horse over a jump on a morning when her hangover is worse than usual...
Last week a wedding took place in Abdin Palace, Cairo, at which not a single woman, not even a bride, was present. The ceremony consisted of two signatures on a contract-that of the groom, 19-year-old Crown Prince Shahpur Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran; and that of 19-year-old King Farouk of Egypt, acting on behalf of the bride, his 17-year-old sister, Fawziya...
...ceremony they quarrel; Jennie says she won't marry a man who has sworn at her; mother, father and the doctor's friend act as peacemakers; the Confederate veterans assemble to take part in the ceremony; the minister refuses to have Confederate flags in the church; the groom begins to drink; when the time comes Jennie goes to the altar, just as everyone knew she would...