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...Hours by Air (Paramount). Rocketing from Newark to San Francisco in a bullet-nosed Boeing are an heiress (Joan Bennett) rushing to intercept her sister's marriage to a cad; the cad's brother (Fred Keating); a bad little boy, his water pistol and his caretaker (Zasu Pitts); the customary gangster, the sleuth trailing him; a transport pilot (Fred MacMurray) returning to duty from a canceled vacation...
...most trusted advisers on foreign affairs. Captains of these two distinct groups are the Brothers-in-Law Dr. Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff & Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop. The former is a career diplomat of masterly attainments. The latter is a one-time German champagne salesman and husband of a German champagne heiress...
...eldest of the three "Marrying Mdivanis"; onetime husband of Cinemactress Pola Negri, Opera Singer Mary McCormic; near Palm Beach, when his polo pony fell, kicked in his head. On the sidelines was his bride of a month, Louise Astor Van Alen Mdivani, onetime wife of Brother Alexis Mdivani, Heiress Barbara Hutton's first husband, who was killed seven months ago in an automobile crack-up near Gerona, Spain (TIME...
Born. To Barbara Button Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, 23, Woolworth heiress ($20,000,000); and Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, 38; their first child, a boy; in London. Weight: 7½ Ib. Name: none, until the Count & Countess "have discussed the matter more thoroughly...
...idealizing prostitution. A more impressive figure, Tilly was a minor Casanova in the period after the Revolution, left a volume of memoirs that have only recently been translated. Tilly fled to Philadelphia, where he ingratiated himself with the wealthy Bingham and Baring families, married a 15-year-old Bingham heiress, received ?5,000 cash and ?500 yearly to divorce her. With more modern figures, Ellis is less successful. Obviously disliking Proust, obviously repelled by Proust's mysterious masterpiece, he makes a stubborn attempt to evaluate the work and analyze its author, does not seem to grasp their significance...