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Show WHITE GOES TO N. Y. EORJITM BEAUTIES By WALTER WINCHELL Measoa of a Colyuman's Girl Friday Dear Mr. W.: Billy Wijkerson, the Trocadero-Vendome man of Hollywood, and his beautiful bride (Billie Steward, the former Ziegfeld girl) have parted, again this time for good. The fourth time, I think... Anyhow, it was all done soft-pedal last week property prop-erty and cash settlements, etc The divorce follows shortly. Poor Al Wertheimer. who was ir the crash that killed Mrs. Edward Maanix. He will live, the doctor! say, but will be an invalid. Tha rumor is around again that thi waiters are plotting to strike on New Year's eve. George White told me the rhlel reason he flew back from Hollywood Holly-wood waa to select eight pretty girls for "Scandals," the flick he will make at the Columbia studios. Says the trouble with the good-lookeri out there is that you see them In every musical. . . . Harry Rlchman Fathered most of his local girl friends at his shack the night he returned from Europe. Brought them three trunkloads of gifts. The lawsuit over "Letty Lynton." which was won by the authors of "Dishonored Lady" (Edward Sheldon Shel-don and Margaret Ayer Barnes i, will bring them nearly half a million mil-lion dollars. . . . Columbia Pictures threatens tn be ths pinnrrr In I he reprisals against r a d i o-m o v i s knockers. They've ordered a scenario sce-nario in which certain products advertised ad-vertised on the air will be panned! fleers Jean Nathan says he will publish a weekly msglet Just to record the names of girls he sees columnists with so amused is he with the daily Itema about himself and the ladles who occupy his other f I'flnrt-nlghl pew. . . . Dorulliy Fun. i who does that slick travesty on a i chorus girl at the Wain bow Woom, umi once fired out of the chorus of l "Let 'Em Eat Cake" because she wasn't the type! . . . Willie Howard is suing Eddie Cantor and Colum-' Colum-' his B'casting for 100 Gs. Alleges . Cantor used his "French Lesson" i routine on the air the 17th, sans I permish. That story about June Lang mar-( mar-( rying A. C. Blumenthal sounds t ' wharky to me. He isn't divorced I from Peggy Fears, or is he? Any how. June and M. Morrison, the wealthy polo player, have resumed things. , . . The reports from the coast have It that Warner s "Tova- rich" tops the play's version. . . . Also that Hal Roach isn't in any jam with Mussolini because of Vlt-torio's Vlt-torio's recent visit out there. Roach transatlantalked with II duce twice during the past two Satdeea. Bruce Powell got a gift from Sherman Billingsley the other night a bottle of giggle-aoup. When Powell got to his home via cab he discovered he bad spent all his coin and hadn't enough to tip the driver, so he gave him the bottle! . , . Later he learned It waa an 80-year-old brandy worth $26! . . . Heard a nice yarn about Stanley tiriffia, the big financial man for Paramount Pictures. Pic-tures. He is part owner of Katharine Kath-arine Cornell, who is quits a corporation. cor-poration. ' His share of the profits (her road tour packs them Ini Is a fortune which he gives to charity weekly. Beat news in days Is that Jerome Kern, who waa so ill, is well again. . . . I'm mad about Gershwin's score in "Damsel in Distress," the new Astaire hit. "Foggy Day In London" Lon-don" stays In the ears. . . . Jesse Owens, the sepia Olympic champ runner, is being sued for allegedly running out on a movie contract . . . There's a rumor that a renowned i bandsman and his singing wife have parted. . . . Love Fred Allen's argument about tax collectors. Hays you ran always depend on them to come around December 15 for most of your dough, but you never ran find one of them when you need a punch-line! , , . Just as funny is Ken Murray's gag about the Jewish woman whose quadruplets, quad-ruplets, born in Berlin, were christened chris-tened Eenie, Meenie, Miney and Frits! Your Girl Friday. |