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Back in the roaring pre-depression years, Arthur Schwartz produced "Dancing in the Dark" and later memorable scores for "Revenge With Music" and "At Home Abroad." Kaufman has hit pay-dirt consistently through two decades of the American tunitee;" and Leonora Corbett, the other-worldly bank on the smartness, sophistication, or schmaltz of another day, differently tempered--or perhaps the Messrs. Kaufman and Schwartz are, plainly and bluntly, "written out." Whatever the explanation, "Park Avenue" has tunes and situations that smack far too conspicuously of past playgoing...
Arbiters of culture now are Mrs. Leonora Wood Armsby, who runs Pierre Monteux's San Francisco Symphony, Mrs. Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, who campaigns for sanity in art. Faces come & go around the Palace Hotel bar, John's Rendezvous, Golden Gate Park: "Jake" Ehrlich, attorney for the underworld; Bill Hurley, Third Street saloonkeeper who ran for mayor with the slogan: "Get up early and vote for Hurley; stay in bed and be misled." Henry Kaiser rides importantly back & forth over crowded Bay Bridge to Oakland...
Divorced. By Leonora Corbett, 38, glittering star of the British stage & screen constellation (Blithe Spirit, The Constant Nymph, Lady in Waiting): her first husband, John Francis Royal, 60, burly NBC vice president; after four years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
...Leonora Margaret, 35-year-old dowager Countess of Inchcape (newspaper nickname: "Princess Gold") and eldest of the abdicating Raja of Sarawak's three marrying daughters,* prepared to marry a 49-year-old divorced Vermonter in London (and incidentally forfeit a $12,000 widow's annuity). The groom-to-be: plump Colonel Francis P. Tompkins, lifetime Army man, pre-D-day Counter-intelligence planning chief...
...Elizabeth ("Princess Pearl") married a jazz bandsman; Nancy Valerie ("Princess Baba") married and was divorced by a wrestler. Elizabeth, awaiting a divorce, may next marry New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Richards Vidmer, friend of Leonora's Tompkins...