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Married. Faye Emerson, 33, bosomy actress of cinema (Guilty Bystander) and TV (The Faye Emerson Show) ; and Lyle Cedric ("Skitch") Henderson, 32, British-born pianist, bandmaster, disc jockey; she for the third time (No. 2: Elliott Roosevelt), he for the first; in Cuernavaca, Mexico...
Obligation. The letters deal largely with the period of Wagner's tempestuous first marriage (to Actress Minna Planer), when he composed The Flying Dutchman, Tannähuser, Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde, and they hardly reveal a new Richard Wagner. Rather, they amplify the old one-the "Archegotist" who called on his friends to pick up the checks and often gave them his scorn in return, the German genius who believed the world owed him both a living and its unbounded love, and offered it great operas in return...
Divorced. Robert Montgomery, 46, cinemactor (Night Must Fall), radio commentator, TV director (Robert Montgomery Presents); by Elizabeth Allen Montgomery, 43, onetime actress; after 22 years of marriage; two children; in Las Vegas, Nev. Six days later, Montgomery married Mrs. Elisabeth Grant Harkness, 41, Manhattan socialite, in Sag Harbor...
Divorced. By Hattie McDaniel, 53, character actress who currently plays radio's "Beulah," the first Negro to win Hollywood's Academy Award (for 1939's best supporting performance, in Gone With the Wind); fourth husband Larry Williams, fiftyish, interior decorator; in Los Angeles, after she testified that their five months together had been marred by "arguing and fussing." Died. Oliver Frederick George Stanley, 54, witty Tory member of the House of Commons since 1924, onetime War Secretary (1940) and Colonial Secretary (1942-45); after long illness; in Reading, England...
Director John Farrow works in some photogenic backgrounds of the couple's flight through Southern California. But his script and star deprive the movie of credibility. Actress Domergue smolders and storms like an overheated Theda Bara, gets some ludicrous lines to read (and gives them the delivery they warrant), builds up fast to an overpowering impression that she has done her best work in publicity stills...