Word: holmes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. Billy Rose, 54, bantam Manhattan showman (The Immoralist); by his second wife and onetime aquastar, Eleanor Holm Rose, 40; after 14 years of marriage, two of court battles, no children ; in Las Vegas...
...Noel Coward, whom Dorothy disliked, to a party and later "we both flew at each other like wildcats." But the countess will always be remembered by Elsa as the "great broncobuster of the banal, bathos, pathos and hypocrisy-that makes up what we call modern society." From Manhattan. Eleanor Holm Rose, estranged wife of Showman Billy Rose, flew off to Nevada, where by lingering for six weeks prior to April 10 she can divorce Billy, thus qualify for a settlement jackpot of $30,000-a-year alimony, plus a $200,000 bonus...
Showman Billy (Aquacade) Rose, whose estranged wife Eleanor Holm Rose locked him out of their Manhattan town house more than a year ago, showed up at the place recently, was admitted by Eleanor and sat down with her in the kitchen for a cozy chat over some coffee. In the shared cups they found grounds for a divorce settlement, which the courts and their lawyers had been unable to work out in a two-year tug of war. Provided one of them divorces the other by April 10, Eleanor will go on swimming in the kind of money to which...
...momentary antidote. On a purely comic basis, His and Hers never really gets off the ground. So little free will is allowed the plot that something specially gay is needed in the writing; and the writing is so metallic as to seem mirthless. Beyond pleasant performances by Celeste Holm and Robert Preston, His and Hers offers only a certain smoothness...
Star Playhouse (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Celeste Holm in Cluny Brown...