Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that this trio doesn't keep up its batting average; it's simply that this time they're playing in the bush leagues. The LaCava touch is still evident, and in places it's beautiful to watch. Montgomery plays to perfection the role of a neurotic playboy, which lie should be pretty familiar with by this time. Miss Dunne is as convincing a small-town girl as if she's just fought her way out of a load of hayseed. But when these three are tossed together in a story that's as depressing as it is dull, the result...
...manages to support her children through a pie-bakery. But little else in her life is quite as easy as pie. The first of her lovers, her husband's ex-partner, is only too ready to betray her when it means money to him. Her second, an insolvent playboy, blandly accepts her money, calls himself her gigolo, sneers over her with her daughter Veda as a working woman, a moneygrubber, a "varlet...
...broke in Hollywood. . .The Safe Deposit and Trust Co. of Baltimore, guardians of eight-year-old Christopher Smith Reynolds, son of Torchsinger Libby Holman and the late, tobacco-wealthy Zachary Smith Reynolds, declared it cost them $6,944.44 a month to maintain the boy. . . Harry K. Thaw, 70, wealthy playboy slayer of Architect Stanford White in 1906, turned up in Saratoga at the races. . . Divorced at last were Lois De Fee (6 ft. 2 in.) and Billy Curtis (4 ft.), married as a publicity stunt...
Died. Claira Valerie Coleman Manville, 74, onetime wife of asbestos-wealthy Thomas Franklyn Manville, mother of Playboy "Tommy"'; in Manhattan. She divorced Manville in 1909. When he died in 1925 his will left most of his fortune to his son and daughter, made no mention of his exwife...
...Manhattan wealthy Private Joseph Paterno Jr.'s mother asked a court to knock $50 off the $400-a-month separate maintenance her son pays estranged wife Beverly. Mother Paterno said her son's allowance was only $10,000 a year, and besides Beverly was accepting gifts from Playboy Tommy Manville, 47. ∙ ∙ In a trial involving a man who said he sold mud packs, Dick Powell and wife Joan Blondell will testify this week that they absolutely did not offer to buy $41,000 worth...