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Show CHAPLIN MARRIAGE DENIALS SCOFFED By WALTER WINCHELL Memos of a Columnist's Girl Friday Dear Mr. W.: I was tipped by phone to tell you about the arrest of four menacing looking men in front of El Morocco the other night. The story, for some reason, is being hushed by the gendarmes of the E. 51st St station house. It has to do with an attempt to shake down Jack LaRuc of the screen. Too bad about director Sidney I-anfield. He's seriously ill at a Toast hospital. . . . Don't under- stand the statements in- tha papers. viz that Paulette Goddard isn't wed to Chaplin. . . . Shopkeepers here will show you their books, showing her listed as Mrs. C. Chaplin. . . . And those "divorce" rumors were originated by a member of her family fam-ily . . . Frank Lawton and his wife, Evelyn Laye, have reconciled. Reed Lawton is the reason Le Mirage is clicking. The socially listed matrons are veddy, veddy about him. . . . Pat Harrington reunites re-unites with Jack White at the Club 18 next Thursday. . . . The long time rumors that Margaret Sullavan would get the Scarlett role will be confirmed any day. I understand 'he definitely has the part. . . . Walter Wangcr. I hear, offered Howard Diets 50,000 for "Between the Devil," and it hasn't even opened jrir Oleti -fr Toparent. . . . Jack MrHale, ass't manager of the Music Hall, and "Jerry" Wight, a Rockette girl, were wed yesterday. . . . Just looked at George Jean Nathan's chapter on Hollywood in his book "The Morning After the First Night," which will be released Jan. 3rd. Pokes everybody. . . . Joan Crawford practically bought out the works at Hattie Carnegie's . . . The Louis Calherns, who are allegedly al-legedly apart, make love right out loud in the various spots. Joseph Robinson, the attorney, who won a judgment against his wife. Mildred Shroeder (locally voiding void-ing a Reno decree), is mad about Flo Callahan of "Hurray for What!" . . . Mildred divorced him, you know. . . . Valerie Tuck ("Miss London") in the recent French Casino Ca-sino show is now the bride of a Londoner. . . . Tha Gus Schirmer- 1 4 r Gloria Swanson idyll, which had Ceajtera saying would culminate ai 1 the altar is retarded. . . . Stil ' pals, though. Cyril Smith, the British comedian . with Vallee's outfit, is adoring Cynthia Cyn-thia Cavanaugh. of the Paradise choir. This will make Bobby La Branch's heart skip a beat. . . She's the pretty who got herself in the papers recently when Jack Doyle flew to the midwest . . . Mildred Harris, who is appearing with minor attractions in Brooklyn, told reporters she is secretly married mar-ried but wouldn't reveal his name. . . . She is advertised as "The ex-wife ex-wife of Charles Chaplin." . . . That tiny electric sign next to the Palace which attracts so many eyes was changed last night. It offers a six-minute six-minute Xmas show another Boug-laa Boug-laa Leigh classic. . . . Margot Gra-hame's Gra-hame's husband (I didn't know there was one!) is around, feeling very unhappy, I hear. Because of Tier Indifference. Courtney Burr's new lease on life is Dcana Suesse, the composer. . . . Darryl Zanuck will be here in a few weeks. . . . The bankers backing 20th Century-Fox will honor him with a dinner and want to get a look at him. anyhow. ... I hear the reason Max Gordon called off the holiday affair for the cast of his play. "The Women," is that there is so much bickering among them. A so called hotbed of backstage intrigue. in-trigue. . . . That's what comes from being in a long-run (lit. . . . People get on the nerves. . . . Mrs. James Hilton, wife of the British novelist, will become a U. S. citizen. . . . What could that mean? . . . I've read two items about the Dick For-ans For-ans allegedly rifting. That clashes with the fact that they are infantici-pating. infantici-pating. Your Girl Friday. |