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Benn Levy, the brilliant young English playwright, and his bride, Constance Cummings, the American movie actress, who were married in London. Don't they look happy? They are!
The Man Constance Cummings Married
The bitter-sweet story, never before told, of romance more fascinating than fiction. Exclusive!
By
Leonard Hall
LONDON, ENGLAND — Miss Constance Cummings, American film star, was married to Benn W. Levy, young British playwright, at the Chelsea Registry Office today.
THIS modest paragraph, tucked cozily away in American newspapers last July, sent us film fans into a case of joyous jitters !
So Connie Cummings, one of the loveliest of the screen's junior misses, was married — undoubtedly to the man of her choice. Hey-nonny-nonny ! Love Had Found a Way, and it led right smack to the door of the license bureau in old Chelsea ! We sentimental sillies heaved a gusty sigh and looked dizzily up at the same moon that was smiling down on the love-birds' Venetian honeymoon.
Yet few knew that back of the romance of young Benn and pretty Connie was the shadow of another love affair that had budded, but never flowered.
Nor did they know that the former lady of Levy's heart was the opulent Diana Wynyard, gentle beauty of
"Cavalcade." A tenderer, even sadder, romance was never confected by a moon-maddened slave of the pen. And this is its first telling.
Who is this youngster whom Connie Cummings met, loved, married?
Benn Levy, at 33, is one of the cleverest playwrights of our time. He is practically an artistic twin of that other wonder-child, Noel Coward, author of "Cavalcade," "Private Lives," "Design for Living" and other fortunebloating plays and pictures of the day.
Six months separate them in age. Both were drawn to the theatre while still in short trousers — both have written many successful plays — both eat, drink, live the world of make-believe. Even in his student days at Oxford young Levy had one eye on trigonometry and the other on a manuscript.
When his first piece was accepted, Levy dove head first into the theatre, and has never come up. Hits flew from his smoking typewriter — "Springtime For Henry." "Art and Mrs. Bottle," others. At the tender age of 30 he was a settled London success — managers mistered him, fawned upon him, asked how "the new one" was coming on.