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...Vegas' raucously elegant Sands Hotel last week more than two dozen Hollywood newspaper, magazine, TV and radio reporters gathered for an event: the wedding of Cinemactress Rita Hayworth and Crooner Dick Haymes, each headed altarward for the fourth time. Only Columnists Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper were missing. Louella, who traveled half way around the world four years ago to be at Rita's side when she married Aly Khan at Cannes, this time telephoned her blessings but was "too busy" to attend; Hollywood assumed that she had the word that Rita's studio, Columbia Pictures...
...meekly surrendered to the greater wisdom of Press-agent Al Freeman of the Sands Hotel. As soon as reporters arrived, he provided them with a mimeographed "Outline of Events - Hayworth-Haymes Wedding." Sample events: "Wednesday. 2 p.m. Haymes gets his divorce hearing. Pictures and comment available. 3 p.m. Rita and Dick to get marriage license at license bureau. Thursday n a.m. Marriage ceremony in Gold Room, Sands Hotel. Cameras have length of room for movement. No restriction on any picture taking...
...once been married to Errol Flynn. On the courthouse steps he responded to the command of a dozen photographers to "wave your decree," then set out to pick up his fiancee, trailed by newsmen and Pressagent Freeman, who kept booming out: "Is everybody happy?" At the license bureau, while Rita and Dick tried to sign papers for their license, reporters leaned over their shoulders, gleefully pointed out spelling errors, and answered quickly when Haymes asked in desperation: "Anybody know how to spell Clark County...
Back at the Sands Hotel, there was an impromptu press conference with Rita's two daughters, eight-year-old Rebecca (by her second husband. Orson Welles) and three-year-old Yasmin (by her third, Aly Khan). "Yasmin," Pressagent Freeman proudly announced, "is the only granddaughter of the Aga Khan, and that makes her the onlv female direct descendant of Mohammed." Growled one newsman : "I got news for you. In that religion a woman is nothing." Shortly after, Rita and Dick held their own conference. United Press Newshen Aline Mosby promptly asked an embarrassing question of Argentine-born Haymes...
...Vegas, Nev., while bodyguards hovered nearby, photographers were let in to shoot Rita Hay worth, reunited with daughters Rebecca, 8 (by second husband Orson Welles), and Yasmin, 3 (by third husband Aly Khan). Then came some rapid-fire news: Rita and her crooning suitor, Dick Haymes, signed a pact safeguarding her money for her own use. Dick's third wife, Nora, divorced him in California and signed a waiver agreeing to his Nevada divorce. Haymes and Hayworth announced that their wedding would finally come off this week...