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Died. Mark Hellinger, 44, pioneer Broadway columnist, Hollywood producer (The Killers); of coronary thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Convivial, flashy Hellinger lived exactly as gossip-column fans imagine a "Broadwayite" should, married Gladys Glad, a Ziegfeld showgirl, moved to filmland to become one of Hollywood's most enthusiastic practical jokers and its prototype of a "swell...
...Burt McGuire Jr., Manhattan playboy, for becoming the fifth husband of Lillian Roth, former Ziegfeld star and subject of articles on how she conquered alcohol...
...last week, wrote Columnist Billy Rose, "a daffy story popped up on my desk" (the kidney-shaped one in the office Flo Ziegfeld used to use). It seemed, wrote Rose, that somebody's spinster Aunt Helen had died, and when the minister drew back the casket lid at the funeral, what should be inside but the uniformed corpse of a two-star general? The embarrassed undertaker said they might as well go ahead with the service. Aunt Helen had apparently been buried in Arlington Cemetery that morning, and only an act of Congress could...
Married. Herbert Marshall, 57, of the cinema and radio; and Patricia ("Boots") Mallory, 35, onetime Ziegfeld beauty; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...found vegetables growing up my legs." In 1943 he produced Carmen Jones-Oscar Hammerstein's all Negro version of the Bizet opera. It was a smash hit, and the first of Billy's Broadway theatrical ventures to bring him a profit. Billy then bought up the Ziegfeld Theater, which he owns and operates at a six-figure annual profit...