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...meet German competition. British broadcasters had started airing the song themselves-an English version was sweeping England. Neutral Swedes and Swiss were crooning it. The song's original name was The Song of the Young Sentry. But millions, all over Europe, knew the catchy little ditty better as Lili Marleen...
...money. He managed all right by selling his schoolmates his mail from home. First as midshipman, later as Lieut. Windsor, he served eight years in the Royal Navy. When one of his ships, H.M.S. Durban, put into San Diego, Calif. and Lieut. Windsor frolicked for two unauthorized days with Lili Damita and her film friends, he atoned for the next 30 days, confined to his cabin. His health, never so vigorous as his spirit, waned in the Navy and in 1929, when he was 26, he left the service...
...Lili Damita divorced Errol Flynn, charged him with "paying more attention to his yachts than me." She got custody of their infant son, half interest in some $150,000 worth of property, $1,500 a month as long as the actor stays in the $180,000-a-year class, a minimum of $9,000 a year if he drops below...
...right on home. . . . And wipe off your mouth!" ∙ ∙ Errol Flynn whacked Columnist Jimmie Fidler in a nightclub, claimed Mrs. Fidler wounded him in the ear with her fork. The row was over Fidler's cracks about the movie industry, it Meanwhile attorneys for Flynn and Wife Lili Damita are arranging a property settlement, with a separation in the offing. ∙ ∙Bing Crosby practiced a week for a try at Rigoletto with the San Francisco Opera, decided it wasn't his field. ∙ ∙ Sonja Henie was finally sworn in as a U.S. citizen...
...attachment suit brought by an actors' agent, said it cost him $14,595 a month to live. His monthly items: $5,000 for taxes; $4,000 for publicity; $1,000 for the support of a boat; $1,200 household expenses; $2,000 personal upkeep for himself and wife Lili Damita; $1,395 for miscellaneous this and that. The judge decided $12,000 was plenty. ∙ ∙ Joe Louis filed a plea in Chicago to have wife Marva's $200-a-week temporary alimony halved. He said his fighting does not bring him $250,000 a year-only...