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Declared to be suffering from schizophrenia, Maurice Fox, brother of onetime Cinemagnate William Fox, had his marriage annulled by his wife, a Jersey City school teacher, who pronounced him an "eccentric and a playboy," testified that on their honeymoon he had ordered 28 blankets brought to their bedroom...
...wonderful to be courted by a young and handsome Emperor. Sisi was enchanted. At 16 she was married, and the fairytale ended. There was no honeymoon trip. The morning after her horribly disillusioning wedding night (she had been well brought up), when she tried to hide in her room, Mother-in-law Sophie insisted on her facing the crowded breakfast table. From then on Sisi was on parade nearly every hour of the day. She hated it. More than anything else, she hated Sophie. And to Sophie, Sisi was never anything more than a bad bargain. When Sisi quickly became...
Seven years ago Cinemactor Errol Flynn (Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade) whose private life last made news when he and his wife, Cinemactress Lili Damita, announced last December that they would go on a second honeymoon instead of getting a divorce, was known to the barroom clientele of Sydney, Australia, as a happy-go-lucky, well-set-up young Irishman from the New Guinea gold fields who had lately celebrated himself into a sanatorium, had not been on his uppers long before his abandoned claim was bought for $5,000. One morning he woke up to find...
...trampled by police horses were rubbed with liniment, the Duke & Duchess slipped off from their wedding feast, popped into a buzzing two-seater sport car. They zipped to a suburban station and Britain's most famed train, The Flying Scotsman, halted to take them aboard, sped them to honeymoon on the estate of his mother, a Maxwell. Short is their Scottish holiday, for conducting the Coronation of George VI is an hereditary duty which the Duke of Norfolk must discharge, and Westminster Abbey has already been closed for preparations and rehearsals...
Part of their honeymoon was spent at Brighton, where, with a "princely gesture," Bridegroom Clayton rented the public swimming baths for two days for their private use, so that he and his bride might swim there naked. The honeymoon over, they settled down to the life of travel, houseparties, "seasons" in London, the routine existence of their English set. After two years of marriage, Elinor found that Romance had flown. When she indignantly reported to Clayton that one of his friends had kissed her, he simply smiled. Elinor says she had plenty of opportunity to make him laugh...