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Married. Russel McKinley Crouse, 52, waggish teammate of Howard Lindsay in playwriting and producing (Life with Father, Arsenic and Old Lace); and Anna Erskine, 29, theatrical production assistant (Lindsay & Crouse), only daughter of Author John Erskine; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
...Communist campaign progressed nicely until last week, when the B.O.M. Club suddenly gave the New York World-Telegram the club's-eye view of the gang-up. The club revealed, for instance, that its waggish editorial member, Christopher Morley, had sent a telegram to Jane Benedict, president of the protesting Book and Magazine Union. Said Mr. Morley: "Assume principal objection is to chapter where Commissar Dlugash, Georgian renegade, makes his burlesque of Stalin." Miss Benedict wired back: "Other passages equally objectionable as one you mention." The curious thing was that The Fifth Seal contained no such episode...
...crime-story writers has been scripting his thrillers for Hollywood. For a long, long time he has had his sixth book-now titled There Was a Young Man-under way. He swears it is almost finished. Queried about his whereabouts (now Manhattan), one of the author's waggish friends quipped: "He's sitting at the Beverly-Wilshire contemplating his novel...
...high point of the proceedings came, when a couple of shapely misses arose and demanded that women be allowed their "constitutional right" to enter the Law School. The riot which ensued broke up the snooting before it was discovered that the "lawyerettes" were nothing more than a pair of waggish second-year students in disguise...
Leaving the set where he was at work with luscious Hedy Lamarr, he journeyed to San Diego with the woman he loves. Barbara Stanwyck, born Ruby Stevens in Brooklyn 31 years ago, divorced three years ago from waggish Frank Fay, is a man's woman who is best in roles like the saucy Irish engineer's daughter she plays in Union Pacific. Filed three days in advance, as California law requires, the names of S. Arlington Brugh and Ruby Stevens attracted no notice. The nervous bridegroom about to break millions of feminine hearts kept a nervous justice...