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Based on a novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr., Millard Kaufman's screen play relates the tribulations of a young Indiana school teacher. In the years just preceding the Civil War he deserts his college sweetheart to marry a designing Southern heiress. After war breaks out, she goes insane, crosses the lines with their young son, and ends up in a madhouse. Whereupon our hero hits upon the questionable scheme of enlisting in the Union Army so he can go south to find her. Of course he does, and after some further unlikely accidents it all ends happily enough...
Died. Augustus Goetz, 56, playwright, collaborator with his wife Ruth since their marriage (in 1930) on adaptations (Andre Gide's The Immoralist, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, and, most successfully, The Heiress from Henry James's Washington Square); of a heart ailment, after long illness; in Manhattan...
Four Winds (by Thomas W. Phipps) has to do with an immensely rich, exceedingly harassed, many-times-married heiress. All about her Palm Beach house are nest-featherers and heiress-fleecers: aunts and doctors and private secretaries, former and future husbands. The heiress herself is usually up and about by midafternoon, a sort of party-girl Ophelia given to the champagne shakes. Then a visiting poet takes her for a day in the sunshine and bids her go away and find herself...
...vacation villa in Switzerland, Princess Grace of Monaco observed that "marriage is improving me. I am growing up. We hope to have a son" so that Princess Caroline, seven months, "won't have the problem of being heiress to the throne," but can "grow up to be anything she likes-even an actress.'' Vowed Grace: "Sooner or later those rumors about my pregnancy are going to be true...
...nothing was too good to grab for him. Grandfather attempted to wed the boy at 13 to the four-year-old daughter of a Norman lord, but that was too much even for medieval sensitivities, and the Parliament of Caen blocked the marriage. So Grandfather kidnaped the young heiress to the barony of Tiffauges for him, insuring Gilles a dowry of chateaux and domains throughout western France...