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Constance Bennett, who has had four high, wide and handsome marriages in 25 years, was on the way to becoming eligible for a fifth, when she separated from Husband No. 4, Mexican-born Cinemactor Gilbert Roland, father of her two-year-old daughter. After three years of marriage, she had reached the conclusion that "our temperamental differences are irreconcilable."
Barbara Mutton, who has had her share of marital problems (TIME, Jan. 22, 1934, et seq.), settled one when she announced a reunion with her third husband, Cinemactor Gary Grant, after seven weeks of separation. Said she: "We feel sure that the press and the public will respect it as being our own affair."
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Madame Chiang Kaishek, a patient at Manhattan's Medical Center since her arrival from Brazil last month, was pronounced on the road to recovery from her undisclosed illness, was removed to a newly rented house in The Bronx. She was not told of the death of her friend Wendell Willkie, because physicians thought it might "hinder" her recovery, for which a long convalescent period was "essential."
Lillian Hellman, brilliant leftish playwright (The Searching Wind, Watch on the Rhine, The Little Foxes), whose works are as popular in Moscow as in Manhattan, prepared to leave for Russia for an eight-week's stay at the invitation of the Soviet Cultural Society VOKS (see PRESS). Surprised by the invitation, she had little idea of what she would do, planned to go on from there to England to make a documentary film for the British Ministry of Information.
Victor Mature, romantic Romeo of the peacetime cinema, played a real-life Prince Charming to an eleven-year-old admirer, Eunice Kinzer, of Pittsburgh, who was deathly ill with a brain tumor. On tour in the Coast Guard's Tars and Spars, Chief Boatswain's Mate Mature tried to fly from Indianapolis to Pittsburgh before she had the operation, was grounded, sent roses and telephoned, finally arrived by train. Eunice called him her "great big hunk of junk," was helped "immeasurably" by his 10-minute visit.
Carol of Rumania, since 1941 of Mexico, finally gave up his attempt to get into the U.S., got permission from Brazil's President Getulio Vargas to live in Rio de Janeiro, promptly booked passage. In Rio, Carol and Mistress Magda Lupescu, though several ports farther removed from their just-liberated ex-kingdom, will be ready and waiting for a homeward dash.