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DATE: MONDAY, August 2, 1993                   TAG: 9308020004
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PEOPLE

Bob Hope, who once starred in the movie "How to Commit a Marriage," may be more of an expert than his fans know. Erie County, Pa., Courthouse documents indicate Hope wed vaudeville partner Grace Louise Troxell on Jan. 25, 1933, 13 months before the date Hope says he married Dolores Reade.

Hope's publicist acknowledged the entertainer and Troxell obtained a license but says a marriage never took place. "There's a mystery about it and it's going to remain a mystery," publicist Ward Grant said Friday. Grant said Hope declined to comment on the matter.

Erie County marriage bureau clerk Yvette Johnson said the 1933 documents would not exist if the ceremony had not occurred.

Actress Jane Fonda has been targeted by protesters again, this time by animal rights activists and vegetarians. The actress and her husband Ted Turner, founder of Cable News Network and owner of the Atlanta Braves, were in La Crosse Wis., for the International Bison Conference and Trade Show, a gathering of experts on raising bison as an alternative to beef cattle. They have about 1,000 bison on a ranch in New Mexico.

Two people identifying themselves as vegetarians held a banner reading "Buffalo aren't Fonda of Jane."

"There's this myth you believe in when you get involved with drugs that it's going to make you a better writer. The fact is, with hard drugs anyway, it tends to suppress your creative side. You can't play while you're tripping [on LSD]. The guitar turns into a three-foot piece of rubber, and your fingers go right through the strings," says rocker David Crosby, 51, who knows of what he speaks, having served 11 months in Texas jails for various drug infractions, in People.

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