Monday, Apr. 18, 1955
Married. Arline Judge, 45, much-mated cinemactress; and Edward Cooper Heard, 40, inventor-businessman; she for the seventh time (among the others: Director Wesley Ruggles, tin-plate millionaire brothers Dan and Bob Topping), he for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev.
Married. Mohammed AH. 46. Prime Minister of Pakistan: and Aliya Saadi, 28. Ali's former social secretary; he for the second time, she for the first; in Beirut, Lebanon. Still married to Hamida, mother of his two sons, Ali took his second wife under Moslem law. which permits a man to have four wives at a time if they are treated "with justice and equity."
Died. Theda Bara (real name: Theodosia Goodman), 65. heavy-lidded vamp of the silent screen (The Serpent of the Nile, Camille, The Vampire); of cancer; in Los Angeles. Cincinnati-born Theda Bara scored her first success in 1914 as the irresistible temptress of A Fool There Was ("Kiss me. my fool!"), was soon billed as "The Wickedest Woman in the World." became the subject of some of the most elaborate and preposterous pressagentry in screen history. Her first name, the publicists pointed out. was an anagram of "death.'' her last name "Arab" spelled backwards. She was born, they said, of a French artist and an Arabian princess in the shadow of the Sphinx, and was possessed of such combustible Circe charms that her contract forbade her to ride public conveyances or go out without a veil. Her public ate it all up. She slithered her way through 40 carbon-copy roles in the next five years, upped her salary from $150 to $4,000 a week, retired in 1921 to marry Director Charles Brabin and live the quiet life of a well-fed, well-to-do suburban matron.
Died. Karl Hofer. 76. director of West Berlin's Academy of Art and dean of German expressionist painters, famed for his rigid studies of lonely, slab-faced men and women (TIME, Aug. 18, 1952); of a stroke; in Berlin. Old Rebel Hofer was damned by the Nazis as "degenerate" after his widely praised oil. The Wind, won the Carnegie International jury's $1,000 first prize in 1938. He continued to paint in secret, lost some 300 paintings in an Allied bombing raid in 1943, but set doggedly to work at war's end to reproduce them from memory and photographs, was Germany's best-known painter at his death.
Died. Brigadier General John Hartman Morgan, 79, British lawyer and top authority on constitutional law; at Wootton Bassett, England. General Morgan was legal adviser to the American War Crimes Commission at Nuernberg from 1947 to 1949, advised the prosecution in the postwar treason trial of Nazi Broadcaster William ("Lord Haw Haw") Joyce, which led to Joyce's hanging in 1946.
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