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...Europe last summer, begged her not to get engaged to anybody until he returned to the U.S. on Dec. 15. But suddenly Estelle, "too nervous to have a long engagement," crossed up everybody by announcing in Manhattan that some time before Christmas she would marry Dempsey, 54, "a real he-man." Jack allowed that Estelle ("a wonderful girl") would become his fourth wife. Then Estelle let Jack in on a little surprise: she planned to invite Douglas to visit them during their honeymoon in Palm Beach at Christmastime. It was "only a friendly gesture [to] a nice fellow...
...office draw, John (The Quiet Man) Wayne, 46, and his estranged, Mexican-born wife, Esperanza, 31, suddenly broke clean and began swinging wildly in court. John, Esperanza charged, drank too much. "All the trouble I've had came out of a bottle," said she. Then she recalled how He-Man Wayne had dragged her about by the hair and another time by a foot in hotels. Nonsense, retorted John. It was Esperanza's own "excessive drinking" that caused her to fall sometimes-and then she would blame her bruises on him. Esperanza said that John also cursed...
Seventeen-year-old Tom Lee is a quiet, sensitive "off horse" at a particularly muscular and conformist school; he lives, furthermore, under the roof of a particularly harsh and he-man housemaster. From a little acorn of gossip an ugly scandal soon spreads its entangling branches, with Tom defended only by his housemaster's beautiful, equally off-horse wife. Trying desperately to prove his normality by dating the town tramp, Tom only leaves it further in doubt; and it is the housemaster's wife herself, who at the florid final curtain, prepares to make a man...
Gable plays his he-man part with the bemused ease to be expected of a man who has done the same thing many times before; Grace Kelly's blonde beauty remains intact despite the remarkably silly lines she is made to say, and Ava romps delightfully with baby elephants and giraffes in the intervals between her pursuit of Gable...
Died. William Farnum, 76, oldtime idol of the silent screen; in Los Angeles. Making his cinema debut in The Spoilers (1914), He-Man Farnum outpunched Villain Tom Santschi in the-movies' first bloody balcony-to-street saloon brawl, spent three days in the hospital with a broken nose, cuts and bruises, bent ribs. In the early '20s Farnum made as much as $520,000 a year, lost $2,000,000 in the '29 crash, survived the transition to sound to play supporting roles (Samson and Delilah...