LOST ENTHUSIASM

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 7, 9 July 1945, Page 3

LOST ENTHUSIASM

IN£iVV XUiUS., JUiy 7. After seven marriages, including three simultaneous ones, Hollywood's "dance hall Casanova," David Hardy, aged 46, confessed that he had "lost faith in women." When confronted with three undivorced wives in bigamy .proceedings, Hardy offered to enlist and take out life insurance for their benefit, because, he said, he was certain to meet death in the Pacific. Each of the three present wives met Hardy at dance halls and married him. They agreed that he was a model husband and that they lived happily, but subsequently he disappeared with several hundred dollars of their money in each case. He was widowed three times and divorced once in earlier matrimonial adventures. . Lieutenant William Spangler shot a charging Japanese soldier on Mindanao, who, an investigation of the body disclosed, was armed ■ with an American toy cap-pistol. "I shouldn't have shot him," said the officer, "he had only one roll of-paper caps left, but hef/ was I to know? He charged right out of the jungle."