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Charles ("Buddy") Rogers, who used to be billed by Hollywood as "America's Boy Friend" before he married Mary ("America's Sweetheart") Pickford, flew into New York for a tenth wedding anniversary celebration, pitched into an old-timey movie clinch for photographers (see cut). The boy friend was now a greying 42, the sweetheart 54.
Out: George Sylvester Viereck, 63, war-to-war propagandist for Germany. A stout defender of Kaiser Wilhelm in War I and of Adolf Hitler in War II, poetasting Journalist Viereck in 1943 began a one-to-five-year sentence (as a German agent) in the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. Last week, having been released 18 months short of the maximum for good behavior, he was in good shape, said his lawyer, and had written a novel.
In: Dieudonné ("Doudou") Coste, 54, pioneer distance flyer (first from Paris to New York, in 1930). Onetime Hero Coste, bravoed in Manhattan as a counterspy in 1945, was now arrested in France as a wartime spy for Germany and a collaborator since 1940. One of his alleged services: organizing the first Nazi spy units in the U.S.
The Cost of Living
Operatic Tenor Tito Schipa's ex-wife Antoinette, who lives in Italy, complained that her alimony kept meaning less & less as the lira kept falling. She sued for a little adjustment: $1,000 a month in U.S. money would be about right, she figured.
George Raft's estranged wife, Grayce, complained that he was supposed to have been paying her 10% of his earnings, but had taken to falling behind. She wanted him to come across with $18,260.
In Chicago, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, battered ex-light-heavyweight champ, decided that he had been wounded by a hair-treatment ad, and demanded balm. "The Thomas Scalp Specialists," Slapsie charged, had labeled him a "pouty puss" and suggested that he looked that way because they couldn't restore his hair. Further, they had published a picture of him as a contrast to a picture of wavy-haired ex-Heavyweight Champ Max Baer. Slapsie wanted $200,000.