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...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's daughter Byrniece sued musi-comedy veteran Georges Metaxa for an annulment, charging his Mexican divorce from his first wife was not legal. // Cinemactress Maureen O'Hara sued R.A.F. Pilot George Brown for an annulment, blamed "want of understanding." // Mining Heir Dana Dodge, 25, who was charged with bigamy and sued for seduction...
...world of mice and moola (women and money). Perhaps the most laudable thing about this character is that he might not betray the mice for the moola-but one can't be sure. Joey has now become the combination hero-and-heel of a bang-up George Abbott musi-comedy, a profane hymn to the gaudy goddess of metropolitan night life...
Donald Ferguson, 57, has been at Minnesota 27 years, is program annotator for the Minneapolis Symphony, author of a widely used textbook, A History of Musi cal Thought. On the podium he conducts with fury, grunting and grimacing while his hair seems to stand on end. Once in a gymnastic passage his baton flew out of his grasp. Once in a difficult passage, Professor Ferguson grew so pleased that he entirely forgot to lead. Neither time did the chorus get out of the groove...
There was the less familiar Second Rhapsody in Blue, written as a Rhapsody in Rivets, and there was An American in Paris. The rest of the evening was Gershwin at his best; not the Gershwin of symphonic gropings and inexpert orchestrations, but the Gershwin of effortless, ingratiating song, in musi-comedy and cinema...
...Living (RKO Radio) whisks off in lyric pursuit of that frolicking wisp, The Awful Truth (TIME, Nov. 1), winds up chasing its own tail. Sprightly Comedienne Irene Dunne is a gifted musi-comedy star upon whose purse strings depends a chiseling family. Unbidden to the rescue leaps Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., a well-intentioned masher with a way of laughing the law's locksmiths out of doing their sworn duty. The result for the first few reels is bright, well-ordered mirth from the gag-laden pens of Scenarists Gene Towne, Graham Baker and Allan Scott. But when...