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...over the estimated $500,000 estate of the late Bandleader Tommy ("The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing") Dorsey (TIME, Dec. 10). At the time of his death at 51, Trombonist Dorsey left his personal affairs in a double muddle: he was about to be divorced from his third wife, ex-Showgirl Jane New Dorsey, and-astonishingly for a man of his means-he left no will. Contestants in the upcoming fight: the third Mrs. Dorsey, who wishes to administer the estate v. two grown children of temperamental Tommy's first marriage, who ask that the estate be managed by more...
...girl (Leonora Ruffo). His father-in-law then forces him to take a job in a shop that sells religious objects. Fausto tries to relieve his misery by flirting with the boss's wife, gets fired for his pains. Not long after, he spends the night with a showgirl (Maja Nipora), comes home smeared with lipstick, wakes up to find wife and baby gone. After a desperate search, Fausto discovers them both at his father's house, but unfortunately he finds his father too, who gives him a good, old-fashioned spanking...
...Tallulah. Short-haired Billie Hayes makes a lively ditty of / Could Love Him, Virginia Martin a lively ditty of Talent. In La Ronde a foursome smoothly act out a liltish tune. Funniest spoof proves to be one more take-off on a big Ziegfeld-era staircase number, with a showgirl, rigged out like an entire orange grove, having a ghastly time on the stairs. There is fun in Steady, Edna, which rags a British jungle film, while an upper-class British domestic skit has a husband shouting, "To hell with cricket," and his wife replying coldly, "Any one who would...
...showgirl Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner Easton, onetime Virginia belle, has made a career of collecting diamonds and indulgent husbands. Caught sailing for Europe last week with a middle-aged chap, altar-prone Peggy, first married in 1912 and still on the sunny side of 70, confessed that her companion is No. 6 and that for the past three years she has been Mrs. Andrew C. Meyer. Manhattan Banker Meyer, a bachelor until Peggy landed him, smiled fearlessly while his wife did most of the talking...
...Bleached hair on a brunette (except a showgirl or model), or plucked-out eyebrows replaced by pencil...