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Show PLANES WORRY PAL, BUT ECONOMICALLY By LOUIS SOBOL Album of Manhattan! One of Tyrone Power's more cautious pals has been urging him not to fly on the few occasions calling for his trips east to Manhattan. I set the shivers every time you take a plane," he insisted. nlst of the air . . . George Jessel writes this department that the notice no-tice wmcn has given mm me greai- est thrill waa tha line by E. V. I Durling of Los Angeles ranking him as toaalmaatcr No. 1 - the equal of I the late Chauncey Depew, Simeon Ford and Rennold Wolf. George Raft is negotiating for the purchase of the former Rudolph Valentino home. "Falcon's Lair." more recently owned by Juan Romeroasking Ro-meroasking price is $250,000 . . Freddie Chiavantone (he's the maitre d'hotel at the International Casino) loes his showgirl bride. Coral Del Rio, next week . . . She leaves for the coast and films . . . Floral impression: Mussolini a marijuana stalk in a field of poppies! Power, flying in recently, passed over the ship that crashed near Knight, Wye. Aa he alighted In Newark, he waa handed a wire. It waa from his timorous friend. "Thank God you arrived aafely read about disastrous air crash stop good luck" Power stuffed the telegram Into his pocket and started for a waiting car when the messenger boy halted him. "Sixty-two cents, mister. That wire came collect,!" Truth's Bite One of Columbia's earnest young students of sociology went around the other afternoon digging up data an the occupations of the derelicts who warm park benches but whom park benches do not warm. One grisly ancient, when questioned, told the eager young fellow that he played the accordion for a living. "Accordion, heh?" asked the boJ with a certain amount of-enthusiasm. "Do you play aoloa or accompaniments?" ac-companiments?" "Accompaniments." waa the bitter-sweet reply, "I accompany a tin cup!" j Topical Tidbita Roaesell Rowland, who married the Belgian multimillionaire. Baron Jean Em pa in, drew $60 a week here as the "Golden Girl" In the Paradise Para-dise restaurant . . Because of physicians' warnings, who told her the paint would eventually undermine under-mine her health, aha waa planning to abandon her career to atudy stenographywhen sten-ographywhen the chance came to go across for a six months' engagement engage-ment . . . Her romance with the baron haa been no aecret either here or on the continent In withdrawing from the Ed Wynn show, Hannah Williams admits ad-mits the lure of domesticity and her . two Infanta haa dimmed the lure ' f the footUgbta. - Manhattan Melody " Paeans of praise emanating from the - throata of Broadwayltea for themselves . . . Song of sixpence warbled pathetically by aubway panhandlers. Musical sobs of females as they blubber rhythmically for a new mink eoat . . . Sing-song of stump apeakera ringing in your ears long after the furore of the election , . . Sonatas of chestnut vendors . . . Raucous ballads of alick auctioneers. Oaanal Fragments Temporarily crippled Cola Porter now haa a track arrangement attached at-tached to the back of his Rolls Royce permitting him to be wheeled Into the ear . . Howard Cullman, retired receiver for Roxy's, would like to locate 1ST employee (electricians, (elec-tricians, musicians, stage hands, chorus girls) who worked for Roxy's during the years 1M1-J1 . . . They have checks coming to them . . . Dancer Dorothy Jeffers (secret bride of Jack Eigen) will learn here that her husband becomee the first ponaored daily Broadway colum- |