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...Eight, Of Thee I Sing). Depicted as the "Perfect Lover" in Actress Astor's memoirs, Kaufman had ignored a subpoena to testify. Before a warrant for his arrest could be served on him, he had secretly fled from Hollywood to Manhattan. "There won't be any settlement for Kaufman," fumed Judge Knight. "I'll put him away for a while to cool off if he ever comes back into the jurisdiction of this court! He could write quite a play about life in jail!" In Manhattan the high-strung dramatist faced newshawks after three days in seclusion...
...Thorpe, a dressy Hollywood gynecologist, whom she married within a year. In 1934 Miss Astor's parents, who evidently regarded their daughter as a speculative investment, complained in court that she had failed to keep them in luxury (TIME, April 2, 1934). Pacified with an extra-legal settlement, the old folks retired to a goat ranch near Hollywood. Meanwhile, Mary Astor's and Franklyn Thorpe's child was born, named Marylyn...
Last year Miss Astor gave Dr. Thorpe an uncontested divorce, custody of little Marylyn, a property settlement of $60,000. Last month the dark, willowy young actress suddenly petitioned the Los Angeles Superior Court for full custody of her child, an annulment of her marriage and divorce. Each of these objectives Dr. Thorpe promptly opposed...
...Charging that RCAgents had secretly wined & dined young Philco female employes, involving them in "compromising situations to induce them to furnish confidential information, documents and designs, irate Philco sought to enjoin & restrain RCA from using "devious methods of trade rivalry. Philco demanded the return of allegedly stolen secrets a settlement for "substantial expense and damage in endeavoring to protect its business and property from RCA depredations...
Mary French takes a different road. A Colorado doctor's daughter who hates her hateful mother, she goes from Vassar into settlement work and from there into the labor movement, falls in love with one radical hero after another, only to be betrayed by all of them. Drowning her personal despair in work for the Cause, she finally emerges as an impersonal, efficient cog in Revolution's painfully assembling machine...