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-i A Pag 20 THIINKKNDXNT Ini ii UW -W-qs-JEtn-c Mistake? In (Cairolea ILife AS A BRUNETTE IN NIGHT CLUB With Fourth Husband. Horace Schmidlapp By DOROTHY MANNERS HOLLYWOOD, July ONS They can say the shocking suicide of beautiful blond Carole Landis warcaused byhaSliriaTIflnesihr any other motive. But knowing the gay laughing girl well and seeing her frequently at Hollywood parties many believe she died of a broken heart and loneliness and the sudden reversal In her career and her finances. IBd Sorrow WeU Oh, she Md all this pretty well at'movie parties following her return from London several months aga She kept up the laughing, wise cracking mask her friends knew so welL But what isnt generally known la that many things point to a reversal In her private fortunes. Not long ago she had to let her press agent ga Some of her Mils were long overdue.

And Holly mods starring, offersi that were so plentiful year ago seem, to have lapsed off for Carole. And she had been deeply In love with a man who was forced to tell her that nothing, could ever come of their romance. We 'Depressed This, coining on the heels of the breakup of the marriage to millionaire Horace Schmidlapp developed In her an unusual and unnatural depression. For Carole was a gay girl who loved laughter and life. Long known as one of the best scouts In-JIollywood, shewas adored by the workers on.

her set She always knew the funniest and newest' jokes and she had Hie -gift of telling them on herself. When the war years came along, Carole wu one of the first to interrupt her career, booming at that time, and set out on long tour, of the Pacific, then London, then back to the Pacific. In Pantile" On one of the Jaunts to the south Pacific she suffered an attack of-malaria and never fully recovered from It But it was not -serious -enough to keep herefrom tmdon' last year. Carole lived on excitement action and thrills. But when she returned to Hollywood last February, suddenly the activity she loved so much seemed to cease.

of her closest friends did not see "her, and few Hollywood picture offers came her way. HOLLYWOOD, July i Hundreds of bit player and movie extras who had winked with Garole-Landis In numeroua film productions knew her a gay, carefree personality. Mary Kline, one of those friends from the lower ranks of filmdom, declared star's death: "She wouldnt' commit suicide. She had too much to live for. She wu so beautiful and so young.

1 am sure she must have taken an overdose of deeping pills by mistake." 'Prince-' Wed BEVERLY HILLS, Calif, July 5. QN9 "Prince" Mike Romanoff, suave, restaurateur and -pseudo nobleman, wu honeymooning today with a new bride In the swank Beverly Hills cafe where they both work every day. The new. Mis. Romanoff.

Is 22-year-old Gloria lister, who hu. been his secretary for four yean, They eloped by chartered plane lut night to Lu Vegas, Nev, where justice of the peace Harvey McDonald spliced the marital bonds. i The "Prince," who was born plain Harry F. Gerguson In Cincinnati, told newsmen today: "After these years a bachelor I finally took the big step I-hope-Tm- not-setting -a- bad example for all the rut of the Hollywood bachelors." Romanoff, said he wu 39 years old "one year colder, than Benny." CINDERELLA BALLROOM CONTINUOUS BANCINO ST ITS BIST TONITE OLD TIME etANB IMttS OLD TIME WALTZ CHAMPIONSHIP fr. Mf laikf Him Tn-m TOM MOORE and His 10-Piece i tn nv sinlif nr flint HU0 1 4 ijsmwmaEw uiiaA Rdan Amam i many riRV 11:30 AM.

te 2 FJA name aoJ Iamsi JAfeataM feeds nnri lb JiBplM eneuftm ri UwbMatiftd Sky It mm mImUm lb tbs cHy eel brbw if Star i Shocked CINCINNATI, Ohio, Julyi Horae Schmidlapp producer-husband of Carol Ixndis, expressed himself as "terribly shocked" tonight when informed of Miss Landis death In Til have to collect myself before can say anything more," he told International: News Sendee. "But I do know that I am going to California as fast as I can arrange It" Schmidlapp was reached at the home of Cincinnati friends. He said that for the present he could make no other comment about the actress death from an overdose of sleeping pills. Schmidlapp likewise declined to comment on the divorce action which-Miss-Landis-hadpending nagainst hint' In the suit; -she had charged "extreme cruelty and had demanded a division of what she claimed was a considerable amount of community property. Overcome in Boiler; Saved PORTLAND.

Ore, July 5. Harold Swain, 74. was living on (OS borrowed time tonight after bring removed "unconscious from boiler. Police said Swain was overcome by fums as he painted the inside of the boiler. He was taken to St where.

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DON 7 AUSI Your best It Marshall OampeH of Long Beach 1212 American, Ph. M754 MMI-. ENTERTAINS ILL'S -Overseas During War AFTER THIRD DIVORCE A Blond la Las Vegas Landis Found by Movie Star kept pace with her rise to the pinnacle-, of motion picture fame. She had four husbands. bar mates war New York stage producer Horace Schmidlapp, from whom she had been separated several months.

They were married in New York la 1945. Her flitrmarrlagerto writer Irving Wheeler, luted 23 days. Her second venture Into matrimony, the wife of stockbroker Willis Hunt, luted 62 days, Her third husband wu Capt Thomu C. Wallace, an fighter pilot whom she manned after a whirlwind wartime courtship In London. She visited front lines In North Africa, with actresses Martha Raye and Kay Francis during the early days of the war.

The result of that tour wu a book and a subsequent movie, "Three Girls in a Jeep" The actress real name wu Francis Ridste, which wu changed to Carole Landis for purposes of stage and screen. HOLLYWOOD, July blond Carole Landis, the blond movie star who wu noted for "beauty pMdbcsins, rinnA day In the bathroom of her sumptuous home. Police said It was a familiar story an overdose of sleeping tablets. Miss" LsndlsT known foryears Hollywood's "best dressed actress," wu found lying on the floor. Detective Herbert, W.

Britting-ham of the West Los Angeles police substation, said -that he had found a small bottle of sleeping tablets new the bed. The body of the 31-year-old actress wu discovered by Rex Harrison, British film star. When the word of her death spread like wildfire around Hollywood, a huge crowd of curious persons gathered in front of Miss T-anflia' ynanatnn. Police said she had left no note. The beautiful daughter of a San Bernardino, Calif, fireman engaged In marital adventures that EREE wrm.

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