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if 'I I -f fj 0 i 1 i i) I fs I fi XfK. I 1 I tf UffU Nancy SJnotra Wat Happy fadccd Hr Wkn Mem oicf Pop.K'nfd tor th Camera Wasn't ft Nancy Wee Brevghr FranftJe and His Wife Togetner Xfer They Had Separated? "OLLYWOdtfS By Jack Stone RAtfK SINATRA edped his way through the crowded dance floor of a Hollywood nightclub recently and headed for a table on the far side, of the room. The Voice, whose liquid tones and tender approach had sent thousands of bobby donned black stockings mourning for his broken match. He showed it, too. His good friend and press agent, George Evans, acted as go-between.

Sinatra asked Evans daily: "How's my family, George? How're those kids?" How, Sinatra wanted to know, was Nancy explaining his absence. to little Nancy and little Frank? Staying away from big Nancy was tough enough, but to be forced to forego a daily visit with his children was driving Sinatra to the point where he was no good to either his public or himself. So that when he went to the Hollywood nightclub to forget his sorrow and spied Nancy with another party "way" across the room, little Nancy and little Frankie figuratively pushed him into a reconciliation. CRANK and Nancy went home together that night and Frank stayed home. Of the separation he said only: "I don't want to talk about it.

It's all over, rm home and let's forget it." But he was smiling the old smile and his eyes were bright again. A studio spokesman said: "How he loves those kids! Every day he rushes home from the studio ter he in time for a visit with them before they're put in bed." From a purely practical standpoint, it would hurt Frank severely if he and Nancy ever actually divorced. Under California community property law it is assumed that the wife earns half of her husband's income and she is entitled to file that half on a separate Income tax return. Sinatra made approximately $1,000,000 in 1946. Were he to file on that alone, as an unmarried person, he would pay the federal government (disregarding deductions for expenses, of course) $884,820.

The same sum, split into two separate income returns of $500,000 each (husband and wife) gets nicked for only $859,640. In other words, by being married and living in California, Sinatra saves $25,180. Youngsters' engaging smiles and tight embraces have done more than domestic relations' courts in straightening out tangled marriages in many other Hollywood cases. Ray Miljand, Academy Award winner, is together with his wife, Malvina, a non professional, after a separation that might have led to final dissolution of their union. Milland assumes blame for the rift.

His moodiness and temper, he said, caused it. HIS wife lovingly explained that "when Ray has been temperamental it was because of his bad migraine headaches." Migraine headaches plus moodiness plus spat might have caused the breach, but it was a six-year-old chartner by the name of Danny Milland who mended it Ray could stand almost anything, but -he couldn't stand being away from Danny. Danny didn't like the idea, either. So the Millands all three of them are a family again. John Loder and beautiful Hedy Lamarr separated, but it didn't last long.

They're reunited, apparently permanently, for they've just bought April 1017 i fir --s I I A soxers into a world all their own, was tar from that world himself. His face was cast in more-than-usual melancholy lines and his eyes were clouded. He arrived at the table and gave curt greeting to its occupants, until his glance met and held that of a brown-haired, dark-eyed young girl sitting quietly In the group. Then he smiled gingerly, shyly. "HI, Nancy," he said.

She gave him back the smile and said: "Hi, Frank." "Thought you might like to dance with me." "Love to." The girl got up and together they floated onto the dance floor, he holding her tightly, she putting her head hard against his shoulder. That was the way Frank Sinatra and his wife the little Jersey City girl who made his droopy bow ties long before they became a national trademark, patched up an estrangement that had threatened to lead eventually to the divorce court. The deep love that Frank and Nancy hold for each other and that had become submerged in an 'explosion of temperament was responsible in part for the reconciliation. But behind the scenes there were two other important factors in -fact, themost important' They were Nancy, six, and Fjankie, two, the Sinatra children. It was the thought of them, and his misery at being away from them, that made Sinatra return to the fold so soon.

The Sinatra case emphasizes once again the vital, though unwitting, part children have played in mending marriage rifts among the film stars. The Ray Millands, the John Loders, the John Taynes, Nick Condos and Martha Raye are some of those whose matrimonial breakups have been averted by the love of their children. Frankie and Nancy split up as the result of a simple quarrel. There were no underlying causes for permanent friction. Frank's frayed nerves, outcome of working under terrific pressure and business worries, gave way.

There was a sudden, bitter clash of personalities and when the smoke had cleared Frank found himself an aggrieved husband living away from his Toluca Lake home. lie moved in with an actor friend while the rumors flew: Frank was in love with a blonde; Frank was going to get a divorce; Frank would never go home. Actually, Sinatra was miserable. lie felt Just about as bad as the bobby soxers who Atmt Te Film CapHal I Waiting to See ft Little Pascal Tone, Here In Daddy Francbet't Arm; and His Brother Tbemas Jeersee Will Fafch Up the Ireftee Union of Me Xcfer and His Wife. Jean Wallace.

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