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Radio's Henry Morgan, who last month accused his straw-blonde wife Isobel of not only being a bad cook and a Communist but of lacking a sense of humor, publicly gasped with horror at himself after they reached an "understanding" in Manhattan. (She dropped her suit for $750-a-week support.) "I am ashamed," said he. "I guess I just don't have much sense. If I did, I'd probably be in another line of work. I'd quit radio and go straight, or something...
...Manhattan: Radio Funnyman Henry Morgan and his statuesque blonde wife Isobel agreed that they were more congenial apart.* After 20 months of marriage, she sued for separation, asked $750 a week temporary alimony. She complained that he had once faked a foreign accent, pounded on the door and yelled: "Poor lady, your husband has been killed in an automobile accident !" He had also ripped off her pearl choker in a restaurant, she said; complained about her cooking and thrown food in her face; suggested that she commit suicide ("It would be very dramatic. It would end all your troubles...
Miss Addison was distinctly the star of the evening. She sang her part well technically; but more than that she sang with perfect feeling for the sincere, restrained emotion characteristic of the Handel-Milton combination. Instead of the colorless clarity used for Handel by British sopranos like Isobel Baillie she brought a superb temperate richness to her part...
Bobo's Beau. Last October, she got a Reno divorce. She returned to New York, and with her sister Isobel moved back into the Third Avenue apartment where she had lived with Sears. Winthrop, who had gone to Yale, had worked as a roughneck in Texas oilfields, and been wounded off Okinawa, began...
Mendelssohn: Elijah (Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Huddersfield Choral Society, Sir Malcolm Sargent conducting; with Isobel Baillie, soprano, Gladys Ripley, contralto, James Johnston, tenor, Harold Williams, bass-baritone; Columbia, 32 sides). It was Mendelssohn who revived Bach's great St. Matthew Passion 100 years after it was written. Now, 100 years after Mendelssohn's death, his own choral masterpiece, a work of simplicity and directness, gets an excellent performance on records. Recording: good...