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Show WEDDING VISIONED BY DODGE HEIRESS By LOUS 80BOL Album ol Manhattan! Frank Wead, author of "Ceiling Zero," "China Clipper" and other stones dealing with aviation heroism, was once a leading stunt and test pilot. There was never a time when he left the ground that his life wasn't in danger but no serious accident marred his career. Today, however, Wead can no longer fly. Because, some time ago, he slipped and fell on a stairway and became a cripple for lifel Back In 132 after donating 110.000 to a church and shaking hands with ths preacher, George C. Holmes, attorney at-torney for Harry Blarkmer (Involved (In-volved In the Teapot Dome Oil scan-dill, scan-dill, entered the subway and was killed when hs fell In front of a train. Today s novel sppeara tagged' The Preacher " In which the clergy-: man of the book raises 110.000 for hn church by a shrewd business ruse Authoress is Mrs. Georgs E. Holmes, widow of ths attorney. The Brunswick people have beea Inatltutlng fantaatic search for a srplaa hot-elnger named Beaale Mmlth, whose recorda years age tbefore swing became the vogue) were heavy seller. They wanted her u do a new aerie for them. Resale will not be able to aaaume the assignment because she died last week destitute desti-tute ! It now appesrs Delphine Dodge haj told friends she and Jack Doyle w-ill slip out on the Normandie, October Oc-tober 17, and merge in Pans, with Jimmy McRlveen accompanying them to be best man. Apt library imprssslons by Ed fAmallr: Mussolini a gas mask on "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Kmpire" . . . Ganna Walska's be-trathal be-trathal to Death-Ray Inventor Harry Har-ry Grindell-Matthews has been splintered and the temperamental operatic aspirant hinu shs will wed someone else in November no name given . . . Fred Wood, who on the day of his release from an Insane .anylum in Virginia, wrots extortion letters to Madgs Evans is bark in ths Jacket . . . Understand Sports Columnist Joe Williams now occupies occu-pies ths horns near Caldwell. N. J., which was for a time the residence of the Colonel Lindberghs. Inrandrscents dimmed out-theaters out-theaters gated hobo anore In al-leywaya al-leywaya ... A tired coryphee alipa wearily Into her creep-hotel bedroom ... A cahble depoalta a drunk at hie Fifth avenue apartment apart-ment . , . The last straggler, stifling yawns, crawl out of Lin-dy'a, Lin-dy'a, Reuben's and Dave's . .'. A milk wagon, wheels and horses, hoove muffled with rubber, rreepe by ... A stew te poured out of a rlip-Jnlnt . . . Two highly rouged nymphs du pave cast Inviting In-viting eye toward an Indifferent lobby straggler ... A dumpy scrubwoman In pancake hat shuffle shuf-fle down Into the bowel of the atreet where the occasional subway sub-way local roars through . . . Broadway I without her make-. make-. up. Mary Livingstons Benny's sister, Babe Marx, has frigidalred Broker Mert Blum . . . Clsudc Stroud and Thelma White, once Mister and Missus, are finding time for luncheon lunch-eon dates . . . Sir Joseph Ginsburg (Willie Howard's Inspiration) reading read-ing a poster billing Kenny Baker as "King of the Airways." is starting J 100,000 suit for "definition of character" char-acter" . . . Jack Nadler, who was scheduled to wed Peaches Browning Brown-ing sfter the divorce, has set Octo- ber 11 as ths dats when the John Powers' eyeful, Annette Silverman, becomes his bride. Cowboy Clyde Sheffield (brother of June), traveling from the west with his prise broncho in a trailer, will be forced to ride a borrowed nag In the rodeo the trailer overturned over-turned and his own horse was injured in-jured . . . Moss Hart, Dick Rodgers, Larry Hart and George S. Kaufman have been revising their show. "I'd Rather Be Right." in a little hideaway hide-away room over "21." |