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Manhattan's tabloids called it "The War of the Roses." It started last July when Broadway Showman Billy Rose tried to suppress the news that blonde Joyce Mathews, divorced wife of Milton Berle, had attempted suicide in his Ziegfeld Theater apartment (TIME, July 23). Last week he was in trouble again. The scene was the same. His wife, former Olympic Swimmer Eleanor Holm, equipped with camera and a private detective at her side, raided the stronghold, found her husband "not alone." With this evidence, she retired to their Beekman Place town house and bolted the doors. When Rose appeared...
...imbecility, he played most often the part of a tottering drunk. In Australia, where he was born, he left a Shakespearian stock company to travel with a circus as clown, acrobat and animal trainer. He came to the U.S. in 1908, rose from burlesque to become one of Ziegfeld's top comedians (Sally in 1920), later went to Hollywood, where he made scores of strenuous two-reelers...
...later years, right up until his death last March, Novello produced box after box of fluffy entertainment for the British public-and there in the middle of almost every show was Ivor. He was not only Britain's Ziegfeld but also Britain's Valentino, and for a while her Jack Barrymore too; added to which he was one of the most successful song writers of his day, and a maker of light comedies second only to Noel Coward...
...also acquired (from the Ziegfeld Follies) Miss Marion Davies, née Douras. Blonde and bubbly daughter of a Brooklyn judge, she was a chorus girl when W.R. met her during World War I. Hearst presently took over her career. Soon Marion Davies was a star of Hearst's Cosmopolitan pictures (Little Old New York), and its $104,000-a-year president. She was to be the aging press lord's companion until his death...
...impromptu extravaganza featuring a part-time pal, blonde Actress Joyce Mathews, twice married to No. 1 Television Comedian Milton Berle and twice divorced. The show opened when Manhattan cops answered a frantic call from Rose. Joyce had locked herself in a bathroom of his luxurious private apartment over the Ziegfeld Theater. When the police arrived, Rose shrilled a few stage directions ("Don't tell any reporters about this! I want no publicity. It could ruin me! Please, no publicity."), then led the way to the barricaded bathroom, where police broke through the metal door and found Joyce...