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Last July one Floyd McFall and his wife Sylvia used their savings to open a little restaurant and soda fountain between the post office and the bank. They were ignored; almost everyone who wanted a snack away from their own kitchens went, as always, to the lunch counter in the J. F. Hathaway Market & Grocery across the street. Morose, 58-year-old McFall, an ex-house painter who had lived his whole life in the town of Adrian, only twelve miles away, was considered a stranger...
...Fifth Season (by Sylvia Regan) has to do with Manhattan's garment industry. So does the title: on Seventh Avenue there are five seasons-spring, summer, fall, winter and slack. In Miss Regan's farce, things are slack to start with and touch & go all the way. Heading the cast and gamely shouldering the burden are Yiddish Theater Comedian Menasha Skulnik and Broadway Veteran Richard Whorf. Skulnik, a mournful-looking, richly accented, frequently funny comic, handles the humor; Whorf, the drama. A married man who guiltily sins with a model, Whorf makes this part of his role...
Last week Mickey's social career suffered a slight interruption. Detectives burst into his East Side apartment, found him with a pretty, blonde model named Sylvia Eder, hauled both of them off to jail, and charged Mickey with being a "common pimp...
Ufford, who had rung up a remarkable performance against Davidson Monday to upset the visitors, was way off his game yesterday. It took spectacular play by his teammate, Bill Goodman, to extend the deciding first doubles match to even three sets, but the North Carolina duo of Del Sylvia and Sam Handel made fewer mistakes in the end and won going away...
Divorced. Clark Gable, cinemactor, 50; by his fourth wife, British-born Sylvia Gable, 41, blonde onetime chorus girl, onetime Lady Ashley; after two years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif. She testified that Gable told her: "I don't wish to be married to you or anyone else...