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Showman Billy (Aquacade) Rose, whose estranged wife Eleanor Holm Rose locked him out of their Manhattan town house more than a year ago, showed up at the place recently, was admitted by Eleanor and sat down with her in the kitchen for a cozy chat over some coffee. In the shared cups they found grounds for a divorce settlement, which the courts and their lawyers had been unable to work out in a two-year tug of war. Provided one of them divorces the other by April 10, Eleanor will go on swimming in the kind of money to which...
Star Playhouse (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Celeste Holm in Cluny Brown...
...troubles, Manhattan's bantam Showman Billy Rose, 52, confided to a London reporter that he would like to adopt two homeless European children. He explained: "When I married Miss Fanny Brice, she was one of America's great comediennes and very busy. When I married Miss Eleanor Holm, I was very busy." Why did he want children now? Was he lonely? Not exactly, said Rose. "At my age, most people are lucky if they have enough friends to go round one card table. Me, I've got enough to go round...
While wife Eleanor Holm was vacationing in Florida, Showman Billy Rose called the Manhattan police to his expensive Beekman Place house, flashed his property deed, then ordered private detectives to break the locks with a heavy screwdriver. When the doors were open, Billy, police and reporters made a brief inspection of the five-story building. About 90% of his "treasures," Billy announced after a solemn survey, had been "looted." Billy had been trying to get in ever since Eleanor locked him out last year. How could he keep up the insurance on his treasures, he wanted to know, until...
...celebrated tabloid case of Billy Rose v. Eleanor Holm (TIME, Jan. 14) finally reached the comparative dignity of a jampacked little Manhattan courtroom. As a show it was Rose's biggest flop. He had countered Eleanor's suit for separation by charging her with adultery with five men about town & country, and the billing for the opening show promised the most sensational divorce trial in years. But the presiding judge quickly disappointed the expectant crowd of reporters. He called the principals and their lawyers into his chambers for a 2½-hour talk. When it was over...