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Juicy Item. The faded springtime appetite of the newspaper-reading public was stimulated by a savory item on Fritz Mandl's latest marital difficulties. Mandl's third wife, Herta Schneider, sued for legal separation (divorce is outlawed in Argentina), charged Fritz dragged her around their swanky apartment by the hair. Scandal-loving Crítica plastered the story all over the paper, complete with cheesecake pictures of Hedy Lamarr, Mandl's second wife, recounted Mandl's efforts to suppress the film Ecstasy...
Divorced. By Hedy Lamarr, 32, conspicuously decorative Viennese-born cinemactress: John Loder, 49, tall, tweedy British cinemactor, her third husband (others: Fritz Mandl, Gene Markey); after four years, two children; in Los Angeles...
...Fritz Mandl, sleek, shifty, Croesus-rich ex-Austrian arms manufacturer who has had his political troubles (he was blacklisted in 1944 by the State Department and is now rumored imprisoned in Argentina) ran into domestic trouble. He was sued for $80,000 in back alimony by his first wife, ex-Viennese Actress Hella Strauss. (Another Mandl exwife: Cinemactress Hedy Lamarr-see MILESTONES...
When the Colonels staged their June 1943 revolution, Fritz polished his military contacts, wangled a reputed $50,000,000 munitions order. But the ex-Austrian was hobbled first by a materials shortage, later by U.S. and British blacklisting. President Edelmiro Farrell and Vice President Juan Peron, tired of Mandl's steady drain on the Treasury, grew more & more dissatisfied with the trickle of cartridges, rifles, hand-grenades and gliders that came from the Mandl factory...
There was no official explanation for Fritz's arrest last week. Cynics surmised a double cross, suggested that the Colonels had determined to take over Mandl's factory by declaring him a "dangerous element." Furthermore, his arrest might make good publicity...