People: Charmers in Trouble

Cafe society's Patricia Anne ("Honeychile") Wilder went bankrupt for $8,212.24—mostly clothes and a $600 phone bill. ≤≤ Tallulah Bankhead took her lion cub to the zoo for a publicity shot, got bitten by a chimpanzee.

"What I really think of cafe society just wouldn't pass the Hays office," said Diana Barrymore, socialite-actress daughter of John, "and I hope that sort of thing will be wiped out when our present world troubles are over."

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