Word: honeymooning
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...Honeymoon (by Anne Nichols & Alford Van Ronkel; Anne Nichols, producer) is the first drama to bear the Nichols auctorial stamp since this phenomenal show woman wrote and produced Abie's Irish Rose in 1922. That theatrical miracle, thoroughly damned by critics, struggled along at cut-rate prices for six months, then suddenly got second wind and ran for five years on Broadway, setting an all-time record of 2,532 performances. Abie's Irish Rose made Play wright Nichols an estimated $6.000,000. In California, where she still putters at playwriting and raises alligator pears, she no longer...
Forced to forego her own honeymoon twelve years ago because of her husband's first political campaign, Mrs. Eden was a diplomacy widow again last week at her sister's wedding to Dr. Bathhurst Norman in Yorkshire. Captain Eden had spent a hectic week-end in Britain but was forced to entrain for Geneva on the very morning of the wedding. It was increasingly evident to newshawks, however, that if diplomacy had made a widow out of Mrs. Eden. Benito Mussolini had made a monkey out of her husband...
After they had been married some months, George and Mary took a belated honeymoon in Sicily, foolishly taking his invalid sister with them. When George had to get back to his practice, leaving the two women to follow later, the sister collapsed. Of course it was Sparkenbroke who came to the rescue. By the time George got there to take Mary home, she and Sparkenbroke were more in love than ever. By terrific clenchings of spiritual muscle they kept it platonic, but agreed it would be unsafe to meet again. When Sparkenbroke had finished his book and gone back...
...McLeans had the finest honeymoon money could buy. To top it off, Evalyn dropped in at Cartier's in Paris, bought herself a jeweled ornament called the Star of the East ($120,000) and smuggled it through the U. S. Customs. Father paid up, of course. Another time when Evalyn and Ned went abroad, to get over having had their first baby, Evalyn won about $70,000 at Monte Carlo and they set off to drive to Paris. When they got there, having beaten the train time by ten minutes, they found that their chauffeur, forgotten in the back...
...Manhattan, Leonard J. Winston, 26, $30-a-week real estate and insurance salesman, met and wooed Elinor Samuels last September. Winston convinced the girl he was rich, took her on a luxurious West Indies honeymoon, gave her so many orchids other passengers knew her as "The Orchid Lady." Then he brought her home to his Manhattan flat and showed her the gas range. In one month of home life she used 24? worth of gas. Last week he sued for a separation. Ruled Justice McGeehan: "Unless she goes back to her husband and does the work which is concomitant...