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Bigger moment in Joan's life was her marriage last year to Brian Aherne. The Ahernes are one of Hollywood's happiest married couples. Eschewing Hollywood hotspots, they prefer at homes with the quieter younger set. With Jane Bryan, Margaret Lindsay, Beverly Roberts, Lew Ayres, John Arledge and others, they play games, eat cheese and crackers, listen to Joan's puns, which come every few minutes. Typical pun was struck off while Katharine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic were discussing what fun Critic George Jean Nathan has tearing them apart. Quipped Joan: "South of the Nathan and Dixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Apr. 15, 1940 | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Divorced. Cinemactor Lew Ayres; by Cinemactress Ginger Rogers, previously married to Vaudeville Actor Edward Culpepper; after five years; in Los Angeles. Grounds: desertion. Said she: "We really never were very happy." Ginger's mother testified: "He told me he didn't want her any more and that I could have her for keeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 25, 1940 | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...sing the club song. From the Pore's clubrooms, non-Porcellians are religiously excluded. In the last 20 years only five men have been excepted from this rule: the Prince of Wales, Al Smith, Herbert Hoover, under Secretary of the Treasury Roswell Magill and onetime Budget Director Lew Douglas, who were wined & dined in the club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Pore | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...than his part to make it so. True, he has plenty of help. The script clicks with every quip, carries the audience on through one fine comedy sequence after another and ends up with one of the funniest last-lines in film history. Mrs. Chips, alias Greer Garson, and Lew Ayres form the other two corners of the triangle with unexpected gusto. In fact the whole picture is a thoroughly delightful surprise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...passion to herself. She had money, read romances ravenously, set desperate stock in a gypsy's prophecy of a house among trees in sunlight, a great love to come. In middle age she got the house, in the mountains of West Wales. Soon after came the great love, Lew Gower, too sea-bottom low a cad even to recognize his own evil. Lew flattered her and slept with her until he got all her money. But when his wife died he married not Esther, as he had promised, but Lettice, a kind and comely young woman. From then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Welsh Rarebit | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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