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Married. Billy Rose (real name: William Samuel Rosenberg), 56, veteran Broadway showman; and Joyce Mathews, 36, blonde onetime cinema starlet (Night Work), and Rose's longtime (five years) fiancee; he for the third time (his first: Comedienne Fanny Brice; second: Aqua-star Eleanor Holm), she for the fourth (her first: Colonel Gonzalo Gomez, son of Venezuela's late Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez; her second and third: TV Comic Milton Berle); in Manhattan...
...fiancé. Yaleman Thomas Guinzburg, 29, a co-founder of the new-directional, English-language quarterly Paris Review. Onetime Cineminor Joyce (Boy Trouble) Mathews, 36, a headliner in 1951 when she slashed her wrists and scared everybody by threatening a nosedive from the Manhattan apartment of Showman Billy Rose, clucked joyously of spring wedding bells for her and Billy, 56. Thrice-wed Comic George Jessel, 57, warily croaked that he has "an affectionate little ring" for unstarred Starlet Joan Tyler's engagement finger. Quipped Georgie: "It's not modern to say one is engaged...
King Lear. For his return to the U.S. stage after nine years abroad, Orson Welles chose a tragedy as theatrically challenging as it is tremendous. His King is every inch a showman. His Lear is often pictorially brilliant. But it is hardly, on Shakespeare's terms, Lear; nor, even on Welles's terms, successful...
...Showman Billy Rose wrote: "A heart-warming salute and an endearing one." Retired Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney seconded Rose's sentiment with a telegram: "Louis, that TIME article is the finest I have ever seen...
...people of the U.S., who dearly love a good show and are addicted to the principle of truth by endorsement, could not resist a born showman who had once batted .359 for the Chicago White Sox. His name, Billy Sunday, seemed like an assurance of all things good and democratic, and he was endorsed by John D. Rockefeller...