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When Count Ludwig Constantin Salm of Austria married Standard Oil Heiress Millicent Rogers in 1924, he was so broke that she had to buy the wedding ring. Last week, still broke and now divorced, he filed a petition in New York Supreme Court to have their 14-year-old son, Peter Salm, support him ($20,000 a year for himself, $10,000 a year for the expense of having his son visit, $35,000 for counsel fees). Reason: "It is the duty of a child possessing wealth to support a parent without funds...
Hollywood has never been notable for its success in reflecting major social changes. This study of a minor one is no exception to the rule. The story of Cafe Society is the familiar one of a reporter (Fred MacMurray) who marries an heiress (Madeleine Carroll). It achieves the almost incredible distinction of libeling its subject...
This is the first time in eight years that Jan Masaryk has been in the U. S., where he once worked and where he married an American heiress.* He found the U. S. changed-for the better-but the U. S. found no change in him. Still the urbane, witty image of Cinemactor Dudley Digges in appearance, expression and tone of voice, still a great teller of racy stories and amiable spiller of confidences, he wasted no bitterness last week on the men that so hastily and so clumsily deserted his country. His chief criticism of the Munich deal, said...
Marriage Revealed. Barbara Josephine Guggenheim Lawson-Johnston Wettach, 33, heiress to the Guggenheim copper millions; and Henry Obre, 33, Manhattan grinding-wheel salesman; she for the third time, he for the first; month ago, in Darien, Conn...
Married. Gloria Baker, 19, No. 1 café-society glamor girl of 1937*. half-sister of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, heiress to $10,000,000 (Bromo-Seltzer); and Henry J. ("Bob") Topping Jr., 24, Manhattan socialite and heir to $9,000,000 (tin-plate); in Palm Beach. A few days previously Topping was divorced by his first wife, Glamor Girl Jayne Dunham Shadduck Kirkland Topping, who got a settlement reputed...