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...Larry Allen was wearing a Mae West life-jacket; he cannot swim a stroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDITERRANEAN: Galatea & Allen Go Down | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

Married. Gene Mako, 25, Davis Cup doubles champion in 1937; and Laura Mae Church, 24, actress; in Manhattan. Best man: Paul Lukas. Bride's attendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 8, 1941 | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...money matters. The Lord Mayor disagreed. On parole from the pen where he had been sent for hornswoggling Philippine Railway investors, once-affluent William Buckner said he was busted, that his wife Adelaide Moffett, blue-blooded songstress, is paying their $800-a-month household bills, A plea of Mae West's forgotten husband Frank Wallace for $1,000-a-month temporary support was thrown out of court after Mae said she had an overdrawn bank account, a purse with less than $50 in it, receipts for jewels she had sold. Later, when chorus girls offered to help, Mae said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 6, 1941 | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...Mae West's husband, ex-hoofer Frank Wallace, sued the rolling blonde for $1,000 a month separate maintenance, charging her with adultery with her business manager, friendliness with colored and Filipino prizefighters. He said she had kept employers from hiring him after the revelation of their 1911 marriage. // Cinemactress Ann Sothern announced a trial separation from Husband Roger Pryor, gave "our widely divergent activities" as the trouble, // Model Mary Bland Reynolds, Senator Robert R. Reynolds' 23-year-old daughter by his second wife, tried suicide by gas. Her mother blamed "a lovers' quarrel." // Bernarr Macfadden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hollywood Dollar-Dolors | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...country's screens for what Cuba declared was an insult to the dignity of its women, ∙ ∙ John Steinbeck's Mexican documentary film, The Forgotten Village, was banned as "indecent" by New York's State Board of Censors. It contains childbirth sequences. ∙ ∙ Mae Murray, suing Billy Ros& for $150,000 for invasion of privacy, lost a plea to prohibit Georges Fontana and Mitzi Haynes from doing the Merry Widow Waltz at Rose's Manhattan nightclub. Her version of it with John Gilbert re-popularized the dance 16 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 1, 1941 | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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