Word: heiress
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...Paramount). Prize fighters are not numerous, but the recurrent movies about the marital problems of prize fighters who marry above them have attained national significance. Most piquant of the recent lot, Invitation to Happiness bridges the social gap in a one-reel leap, thenceforth takes up where most palooka-heiress movies leave off, to see what may happen to such an alliance in, say, ten years...
...This heiress, Irene Dunne, is an escapist from that "small circle that lives and dies within the circle." The prize fighter, Fred MacMurray, is different from most cine-maulers. What keeps him punching is a firm notion that falling short of the championship in any endeavor is the equivalent of a complete and final washout. For ten years of marriage he is a father who comes home now & then in the infrequent intervals of his long, confident barnstorming career in pursuit of the champion. By the time his hard-boiled-ego philosophy takes the count in a riproaring, ten-round...
...Lindsay prepared the press for the goodwill visit of the King and Queen by commenting on the bad manners of the U. S. press as she told them how Americans would have to behave. The newshens answered her back, unimpressed by the fact that she was Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, heiress of the late Colgate Hoyt (banker) of Oyster Bay, N. Y., and used to be a landscape gardener before Ronald Lindsay, called her to England to be his second wife...
Engaged. Aerielle Frazer, 21, pretty Toledo heiress (Willys-Overland) and post-debutante (she was brought out in swank-stuffed Newport); and Michael Strutt, 24, second son of British Lord Belper...
Died. Mrs. Maryon Andrews Cooper Hewitt McCarter, 55, much-married (five times) Virginia belle who reportedly turned down an invitation from the Shah of Persia to head his harem; of cerebral apoplexy; in Manhattan. In 1936 her daughter, Heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt, charged Mrs. McCarter with mayhem: laving her sterilized to retain control of a $10,000,000 trust fund. Daughter Hewitt, who failed to press the charges, later married a mechanic, then a onetime bartender (TIME, March 27). Mrs. McCarter, driven into bankruptcy by extravagance and litigation, had been living on a trustee's allowance...