March 22, 1944
SNAPSHOTS OF HOLLYWOOD COLLECTED AT RANDOM: The Dick Powell–Joan Blondell rift is expected to reach the courts soon; Mrs. John Jacob Astor and her 9-year-old son were in Hollywood for the day en route home after spending the winter in Tucson; Mary Carlisle Blakely expects her baby the middle of June. She will leave as soon as she is able to travel to join her husband in Brazil. Bob Hope reported in a hospital in Porto Rico following a collapse; Judy Garland and Peter Lawford are a dancing twosome; Claudette Colbert has bought Peyton Hall, the apartment house built on the old Joseph Schenck–Norma Talmadge estate. She must have paid a pretty penny for it; Bobby Breen, believe it or not, showed up at the Clover Club with pretty Marjorie Weiss on his arm. He has been studying hard since he left the screen;
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