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...script, Duke fingered his chin, said it was too bad that Larry had been a Communist, but damn courageous of him to admit it. He hoped, he added, that the confession wouldn't hurt Larry's career. At a mass meeting soon afterward, M.P.A. Vice President Hedda Hopper put the record straight. John Wayne to the contrary notwithstanding, she told the meeting and its abashed president, Larry Parks would most certainly not be forgiven. "Well, you certainly gave it to me," Duke told her with a grin. "You certainly deserved it," said Hedda. Later she confided...
Stage 52 (Sun. 6:30 p.m., ABC). Ibsen's Hedda Gabler...
Then Columnist Hedda Hopper, archrival of Hearst's own Louella Parsons, broke the big news: on Nov. 5, 1950, Hearst had called in Miss Davies, his companion through 32 years, and with her signed a voting trust agreement. It provided that on his death, she would become the sole voting trustee of the Hearst Corp., the empire's top holding company, and would remain so for life...
...When Hedda Hopper's bombshell burst, the lawyers who had drawn the agreement for Hearst promptly confirmed it-and so did Marion Davies. The news brought a quick and bold counterattack from the Hearst estate's special administrators, Son Randolph Apperson Hearst and Lawyer Henry MacKay Jr.: "This so-called agreement . . . was never executed and for this and many other reasons has no more effect than if it never existed." Snapped Filmland Lawyer Gregson Bautzer, who had helped set up the agreement last year for Hearst: "The document will speak for itself when filed...
...night until 7 the next morning. A growing number of influential admirers were fascinated by Lanza and felt a sense of mission to play some role in bringing his voice to the world. Among them was Frank Sinatra, who invited Mario to stay at his house during the furlough. Hedda Hopper and Walter Pidgeon also boosted him, and an RCA Victor agent signed him to a recording contract with a $3,000 bonus. Soon afterward, in January 1945, Mario got a medical discharge (reason: postnasal drip). He returned briefly to Hollywood to marry pretty Betty Hicks, sister of an Army...