The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-04
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Queer Jack L. Warner to-day cited
Labor Day box office receipts for
The Sea Hawk" as indicating that
America is overcoming war Jit-
ters" by going TO the movies.
He said theater patrons spent
S2,197,653 in 1893 theaters over the
Labor Day week end to see the
picture. The film. he added. was
doing a bigger business than any
his studio had produced since AL
Jolson made the Singing Fool in
the early days OF talking pictures.
This is one of the record Labor
Day week end attendances in the
history of the industry" said Warn
er, executive of Warner Brothers
studio. "We staked a production in
vestment of s1,700 900 on THE Sea
Hawk despite the loss of our Euro
pean market. because of our faith
that the American people will pay
for quality. The week end returns
have been most gratifying"
Movieland romances sent two
young actresses to Las Vegas, New
over the week end. They were red
haired Arleen Whelan and Marilyn
Hope.
Miss Whelan, who three years ago
manicured fingernails for SlS a
week, eloped with actor Alexander
Darcy. They were married at Las
Vegas Monday morning and re-
turned Immediately to Hollywood,
as happy as can be- She gave her
age as 26: he is 81.
Miss Hope, once voted by Still
photographers as their idea of a
glamor girl" eloped with actor Nor
man Blake. They went east from
Las Vegas for honeymoon in st.
Louis, Mo, and New York
Film writer Lawrence Hazard to-
day sought recovery of $1,000 ali
mony paid his former wife Mrs.
Nora Hazard Boothe, under the al
legged presumption she had not re-
married.
Hazard claimed that two years
ago, when he obtained divorce,
he agreed to pay Mrs. Hazard $500
a-month until she married again. He
kept up the payments, he declared,
only to find that his former wife
had taken a new husband, without
telling him.
Mrs. Hazard answered by asking
that the suit not be decided until
she makes up her mind whether to
seek annulment of her marriage TO
Donald r. Boothe, credit company
official. II she has the marriage an
nulled. Hazard will have to continue
the payments, her lawyer claimed.
Pat O'Brien's mother never has
seen a world preview of a motion
picture, but she isn't going to miss
"Knute Rockne-All American" In
which the square awed Irish actor
plays the role of the late Notre
Dame football coach.
The premier will be held at South
Bend. Ind. on Oct. 4, and O'Brien
will take his elderly mother there
for the first showing. His wife, too,
will go to the college city.
That's the one opening she
doesn't want to miss said O'Brien.
land I'm going to see that she gets
in on all the thrills"
Mrs. O'Brien lives in Brentwood
Heights with her son.
Hollywood Career Girls Club
composed ef- teachers, doctors
architects, actresses and writer's,
apparently prefer villains.
The club selected Humphrey Bo-
CART. screen villain, as the man its
members would like most to mar
ry." The women said that charm
is more important than good looks
Bogart would be an ideal hus-
band for career girls, they said, be-
cause he has enough fortitude not
to be over-impressed by their inn
portance."
Besides. they said. he is sincere.
intelligent and has sense of
humor.
Wally Vernon, comedian. master OF
ceremonies and baseball pitcher
extraordinary. was under a 500
fine today for failing to provide for
his former wife and three children.
The film and radio comic also
was ordered to pay his ex-wife.
Mrs Mary Vernon. 5000 a month
for support of herself and children,
Bobby and Ronald. three-year-old
twins. and Mary. IS months.
Vernon, who said he earned more
than 800 a week as an entertainer
at a fashionable San Fernando
Valley night club. pleaded guilty to