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When Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson was in London for last July's economic conference, Herr Dr. Julius Curtius, Germany's Foreign Minister, whispered news into his ear: Frau Barbara von Haeften, Minister Curtius' daughter, had just borne a son in Berlin, Foreign Minister Curtius' first grandson. As a diplomat should. Statesman Stimson remembered this fact when, later, he reached Berlin. At a toy store he selected and sent to small Grandson Jan von Haeften a large sailboat. Last week a letter from Berlin reached Statesman Stimson in Washington...
With Wanda Mansfield (now under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and Barbara Stanwyck (who is now being sued for breach of contract by Columbia), Mae Clarke was once a dancer at the Manhattan Everglades Club. A table for three in Manhattan's Tavern restaurant was reserved for them daily. Cinemactress Clarke left the Everglades after a short appearance in The Noose to act in vaudeville. She married and divorced Vaudevillian Lew Brice, went to Hollywood two years ago. She lives with & supports her family which had financial difficulties when her father, a motion picture theatre organist, lost...
...reputation in the Davis Cup matches by beating Sidney Wood and later Jean Borotra. Onetime ping-pong player, Perry learned his tennis on London public courts, considers travel the best way to improve it. In last week's doubles, Vines was paired with Keith Gledhill of Santa Barbara, national intercollegiate champion. Perry with George Patrick Hughes, his doubles partner on the British Davis Cup team. Defending champions were U. S. Singles Champion John Doeg and George Lott of Chicago...
Husband-Father-Grandfather Curtius has six children: Barbara, 23, who married Hans Bernd von Maesten and whose son, Johan, was born July 19; Klaus, 25; Wolfgang, 20; Verena, 18; Dorothea, 16; Christel...
...three daughters of Actor Richard Bennett looked, a few years ago, as though they might later be something of a problem, but things turned out to make the Bennetts, like the Barrymores, a legendary family in the theatre. Barbara, second daughter, was the first to go into the movies, before she became a dancing partner of the late Maurice (Maurice Oscar Louis Mouvet). Now she is the wife of Radio Tenor Morton Downey, who last week became temporarily blind from exposing his eyes to a sunlamp. Joan, youngest daughter, married when she was 16, divorced at 18, now gets...