Love's Labor Seems Lost For Manville
Elinor Troy Deserts Him After 5-Day Night Club Junket
New Rochelle, Oct. 26.
—The romantic notion which prompted
Tommy Manville to spend $3,000 to bring Elinor Troy from Hollywood to New York in a chartered plane which was loaded with orchids and champagne, today became love's labor lost.
The asbestos heir laid after a
live-day tour of night clubs with
the eye-filling show girl that they
had parted company.
"We came up here to the country last night and she found 28
rooms too small for her," Tommy
moaned.
"Besides that she didn't like the
presence of Yvonne Arden (young
radio singer).
"She told me 'you're too blamed
busy wi th your business
to get
married,' so I called a cab for her,"
Tommy said all this happened while he was In the midst of moving his personal belongings from his chateau here Into a garage apartment on the grounds of his luxurious estate.
"She didn't like the garage apartment; either," he explained.
"In addition," he said,, "she
couldn't cook. She didn't even
know when to turn off the gas
while boiling water." '
Tommy said he was riot looking
for a cook, but he Just didn't like
t he idea of a
g al who couldn't, wrestle with the pots and pans.
Miss Arden, he asserted, came along just for the fun of it.
The twice-married Miss Troy, a
native of Washington, D.C, said
• he would Issue a statement later.
Her trip alone in a 28-passenger
plane last Friday and Saturday was
t he result, of Tommy's telephoned
proposal of marriage, she said.
Tommy first, denied wedding
plans, then admitted them, and was
showered with
the congratulations
of cafe society as they flitted from one night club to another.