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...White Tie and Tails (Universal-International) takes place in the never-never land of romantic farce. It is an agile, simpleminded frolic about a butler, an heiress and a gambler. Dan Duryea, whose pinched, deep-frozen face has heretofore made him particularly suited to playing down-at-heel mugs, is oddly cast as a typically uppity butler...
Author White's colony of Lilliputians is located on a tiny lake-island in a vast English estate-among the now-ruined "Vistas, Obelisks, Pyramids . . . Rotundas, and Palladian Bridges" through which Pope, Dr. Johnson, Boswell and Garrick once roamed. The present-day heiress to the tumbledown estate is ten-year-old Maria, "one of those tough and friendly people who do things first and think about them afterward." The plot of Mistress Mas ham's Repose revolves around the efforts of Maria's fiendish guardians to abduct the Lilliputians and sell them to Hollywood...
Cashel Byron's Profession (1882) is best known as the novel which glorified Gene Tunney ahead of his time.* Byron was a professional prizefighter but, like Tunney, he was contaminated by literature, music and the arts. He happened to fall in love with an heiress who combined an income of ?40,000 a year with an interest in Spinoza. In the ring Cashel was superb; Lydia once heard him raging like a lion: "'Rules be d-d, he bit me, and I'll throw...
Jack Doyle, lady-killing Irish ex-heavyweight whose U.S. career included few ring victories but two marriages to cinema starlets, one engagement to Auto Heiress Delphine Dodge, was arrested for trying his left hook on a lady in Dublin. She went down for a short count, whereupon Jack helped her up, then let her have another one. Next day in court he agreed to a ten-bob fine, but announced with injured dignity: "There is no law in the world to prevent me getting drunk every night if I behave myself...
Barbara Hutton's dashing friend, Freddie McEvoy of the Errol Flynn set, faced a flying visit from his second wife and their 15-month-old daughter, just as Dime-Store Heiress Hutton's divorce from Gary Grant finally became final. Said Mrs. Irene Wrightsman McEvoy, between hops from California to Paris (where Freddie and Miss Hutton coincided): rumors that Freddie and the heiress would marry had "nothing to do with it"-she just wanted to know if she herself was still Mrs. McEvoy. Once he had said he had divorced her, but now he said...