Word: holmes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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, in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac, photographers banged away at the blinking, bewildered husband...
...Love and Let Love" is the eminent French playwright's latest work; an earlier one, "Affairs of State," is still on Broadway, and the two may be compared in that they are both vehicles for Hollywood stars. Unfortunately, where Celeste Holm and June Havoc have been able to carry the earlier play, the efforts of Ginger Rogers are not enough to combat the script Verneuil now offers...
What was basically a hackneyed plot--boy has girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back--is saved by a play within a play. Director John C. Wilson has combined the best scenes from "The Taming of the Shrew" with Porter's music and some exciting choreography by Hanya Holm to make a highly entertaining show. Lemuel Ayers' costumes and settings are not only magnificent but give the production a light pastel touch which keeps it from being the usually garish musical comedy...
Reported Dead: Maurice Thorez, 51, France's Communist boss until last November, when he suffered a stroke and was flown to Russia for medical treatment. Persistent rumors from Warsaw and Stock holm say Thorez died in Moscow. The French Communists deny the reports, claim that Thorez is, in fact, getting better. Possible reasons for keeping Thorez' death secret: 1) the problem of his succession in the French Communist Party; 2) reflection on Russian surgery...
...barricaded bathroom, where police broke through the metal door and found Joyce. She was bleeding from both wrists which she had scratched with a double-edged razor blade. "Why did this have to happen to me?" Rose moaned. Then he remembered his wife, Eleanor Holm, onetime Olympic swimmer and Aquacade beauty. "Now is the time to have a wife," he muttered, and got on the telephone. Eleanor, a wife in need, arrived soon after Joyce had been taken away in an ambulance; she pitched in, and did her best to help shield Rose from reporters and photographers. In the hospital...