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...Latin fancy was fired. Swiftly he put aside his other mistresses,* enthroned Claretta ina resident villa linked by private phone to the Palazzo Venezia. The new favorite flaunted her power. She managed the Duce's fan mail, dragged him on shopping tours, hired & fired officeholders in what Corriere della Sera called the manner of a "second-rate Maintenon," responsible for the "intellectual degradation of her passionate friend...
Claudia, the child wife, is Dorothy McGuire, who perfected the part on Broadway. She is flanked by a dominant mother (Ina Claire) and by a Job-like husband (Robert Young...
...Shows of Yesteryear. Between 1907 and 1927 the Follies had just about everybody: Mae Murray, Ina Claire, Nora Bayes, Ed Wynn, Ann Pennington, Marion Davies, Marilyn Miller, George White, Leon Errol, Raymond Hitchcock, the Dolly Sisters, Van & Schenck, Moran & Mack. Among the Follies song writers were Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml, Irving Berlin. In one edition or another, Fanny Brice choked throats with My Man, Gilda Gray upped blood pressures with her shimmy, Bill Fields played his ludicrous game of pool, Gallagher & Shean hurled countrywide their most famous song...
...Oklahoma the signs are encouraging. When the Oklahoma Criminal Court of Appeals reversed a lower court decision convicting Alan Shaw, Eli Jaffe and Ina Wood for membership in the Communist Party and possession of literature, most of which can be found in Widener's stacks, the Red Herring was thrust back into its barrel. But the people who prosecute Communists because they are Communists, and the law which they used for their drive against local Reds, are still extant, and their disregard of the Bill of Rights can continue to damage civil liberties...
Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la Coudraye ignored ex-wives Gloria Swanson, Constance Bennett when he answered an inquiring reporter's query: With what five women would he like to retire from business? His five: Ina Claire, Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Clare Boothe, Elsa Maxwell, Greta Garbo...