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...between the Actors and the Producers for the benefit of the Motion Picture Relief Fund, Midwick and Hollywood met socially with a slight hiss of conversation. For a week before the game local society and sporting pages had been ballyhooing the event. The Producers team would consist of Walter Wanger, a hard-working non-scorer; Frank Borzage of long low-goal experience; Mike Curtiz, who took "ill" at the last moment, had Oil Man Steen Fletcher sub for him; and eight-goaler Aidan Roark, Zanuck's assistant at polo and pictures. The Actors would be spirited novice Paul Kelly...
...rolled a few feet and stopped. Tim Holt, normally a two-goal player, hit nothing all afternoon. Charles Farrell raced around on Mazeppa-maned ponies. Nobody scored until the fifth period. The most frequent sounds from the grandstand were groans. Then Big Boy Williams got mad because Walter Wanger kept hooking his mallet. Aidan Roark, who hadn't played all winter, got tired of the monotony. The two dueled for the ball. In the melee, Charles Farrell romped by, whanged the ball between the posts for a goal. Next the producers scored, scored a second time when Roark with...
...victors, their sponsor, Joan Bennett, presented the trophy in a ten-minute ceremony mostly monopolized by fan magazine photographers who wanted shots of Joan and Husband Walter Wanger...
...Husband Wanger, one of Midwick's few movie members, strove manfully to bring the social irreconcilables together. He had little luck. The only real fraternization went on in the party of tall, dark Mrs. Edwin Earl and her husband, whose father owned Los Angeles' defunct Express. Her group contained Lawyer Thomas Joyce, Comedian Robert Benchley, Cinemactress Rosalind Russell, Poloist Eric Pedley...
...Hollywood hospital lay John Marion Fox, Joan Bennett's thrice-married first husband. After she had the name of their daughter Diana changed from Fox to Markey, Playboy Fox became despondent. Lately he had been running an Oriental art bazaar. When he heard that Joan had married Walter Wanger, John Fox gulped a handful of sleeping tablets, called an ambulance, babbled to attendants: "I can't bear the thought of Diana's being brought up by another man. I want to sleep." Told that physicians had pulled him through at Actress Bennett's expense...