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...gives her age as 45, chief attraction of the short-lived Broadway play, A Goose for the Gander (TIME, Feb. 5); and William Mellon Davey, 52, Wall Street yachtsman; she for the fifth time, he for the third; in Union City, N.J. Previous Swanson husbands: Wallace Beery, Herbert Somborn, the Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, Michael Farmer...
Hamburger and Capon. Founder of the Brown Derby was the late Herbert K. Somborn, movie producer, second of Gloria Swanson's four husbands. A coffee-bibber, Somborn wanted 20 cups a day. And he often sighed for his mother's home cooking. A restaurant seemed the only answer. He outlined the idea to his friend, legendary Wit Wilson Mizner. Cracked Mizner: "A restaurant like that would succeed-even if you called it the Brown Derby...
...dapper Robert Howard Cobb, 43, who is often mistaken for Actor William Powell ("I don't think Powell's quite as good an actor as I am"). Bob Cobb has managed the Brown Derby since its opening, is now president and biggest stockholder (cofounders Somborn and Mizner died ten years...
Relative your article TIME, June 7 on the word "jalopy" and Webster R. Kent's comments (TIME, June 21), I think you are both in error. Approximately ten years ago while in a Los Angeles café with the late Herbert Somborn, ex-husband of Gloria Swanson, approximately eight mulatto dancing girls appeared. Mr. Somborn exclaimed: "What beautiful jalopies!" Pressing him for information, he stated that a jalopy was anything half black and that the word originated in a certain part of Africa, where plurals are unknown, and a jalopy is a African half black geese...
Married. Gloria Swanson. 27, cinema actress, to the Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la Coudray; in Paris. He is her third husband. Wallace Beery, cinema villain, was first; Herbert K. Somborn of California, second. Both obtained divorces on grounds of desertion. Seriously wounded in the war, the Marquis de Falaise received two citations for bravery...