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Show The Intelligentsia: Willa Cather's posthumous volume, vol-ume, "The Old Beauty," is getting high bids from the film firms. Despite De-spite the fact that her will specifically specifi-cally instructed that none of her works was ever to be screened. She was too disheartened by the Hollywood Holly-wood treatment of her masterpiece, "A Lost Lady." . . . Cleveland Am-ory's Am-ory's best-seller, "The Proper Bos-tonians," Bos-tonians," will be a musical, J. Styne adapting. . . . The inspiration for "Love Life," the musical hit, is said to have come from "Modern Woman The Lost Sex," a tome by Ferdinand Ferdi-nand Lundberg and Marynia Farn-ham. Farn-ham. . . . Ezra Goodman has a mag smarticle on H'wood historian S. Skolsky. Its title: "Small Wonder." . . . Dino Yannapoulos, 29-year-old stage director of the Met-opera, is in Mexico giving the opera there a New Look. . . . Drew Pearson gets an honorary degree at William Jewell College this week. . . . John Roy Carlson, author of "Under Cover" and "The Plotters," hal another sizzler due soon. Moscow Mule: Walter Cron-kite, Cron-kite, the UP man in Moscow for two years, told us this one to Illustrate the Russian Routine. ... When last year's rumors reached Moscow that a Swedish medico had flown to the Kremlin Krem-lin (to attend Stalin) the reporter repor-ter phoned the Russian press bureau to check it. . . . "Is it true Mr. Stalin is sick?" he inquired. in-quired. . . . Long pause. . . . "I know it isn't true," said the reporter, "but can't yon deny it?" . . . "No," was the Retort Re-tort Remarkable, "it is not possible pos-sible for us to deny it because it is not true!" WASHINGTON TICKER: Ex-Cohg. Ex-Cohg. May, convicted with the Gars-sons Gars-sons for crooked war contracts, has those inexpensive lunches in the new House Office Bldg. cafeteria. How-cum? How-cum? Signs there say "Only for Cbn-gressmen Cbn-gressmen and Gov't Employees." . . . Mussolini's autobiog always refers to himself as He. . . . Instead of Haw , . . Argentina Ambassador G. Remo-rino Remo-rino and Terry Hatfield (of the Hat-field-McCoy feud clans) are Doing the Town. . . . Paris CBS man Larry Le-sueur Le-sueur at the United Nations reported: "Vishinsky looks very weary. So weary, he didn't once pick fight with Walter Winch ell." . . , Larry, they always look weary after picking a fight with That Man. Private detectives are seeking a photogger who snapped pix of some Park Avenuers as they were led out of a sin den (via the backdoor in a prive Greenwich Village bistro. The set-up, of course, is blackmail. . . . Peggy Maley, back from being shown London by nobleman Milford-Haven Milford-Haven (of the Buckingham Palace Set), has a hunk of fur that dangles down to here. Jean McCormick and Doris Lilly are two others just back, which makes it Girltown, again. . . . The credit for the New Look went to a Parisien, but frock makers will tell you it was created by Ceil Chapman, a New Yorker. . . . Forbidden by law, absinthe was the refreshment that caused several glamour girls to fling their clothes out the windows at a midtown party. . . . Good Housekeeping is suing Liberty Lib-erty (the first of its kind) for running run-ning a condensation of Marion Hargrove's Har-grove's new book. Overseas Cable: Lana Turner's Tur-ner's former groom, Steve Crane, and a Hungarian countess count-ess are making Paree gayer. . . , The British Labor Party remains re-mains definitely "anti" to the Duke of Windsor. ... It criticises criti-cises his South of France, Palm Beach and other luxury jaunts "while England lives on its iron rations." ... An American Embassy Em-bassy attache has London buzzing buzz-ing over his attentions to Con-chita Con-chita Cintron, the famed femme bullfighter. . . . Laura Haggerty (of the rich construction family) is in Switzerland "for a year." The dented heart she left in New York belongs to Union News exec. Man About "Town: Corinne Calvey, the French movie actress, and J. Bromfield (the novelist's novel-ist's nevview) will make it a Marry Christmas. . . . Winston Churchill's newiew, Giles Romilly, will Center-Aisle Center-Aisle with Mary Ball-Dodd. . . Prince Fleming, cousin to the King of Denmark, gives up his royal pre rogatives when he weds commoner Ruth Nielsen. . . . "Superman" ere ator Jerry Siegel and model Joanne Carter had it Sealed in Cleveland. . . . The Herald Tribune's Alice Carroll Car-roll becomes Mrs. Gerald Parker of the insurance clan. . . . "Summer and Smoke" leading man Tod Andrews An-drews and his wife have reconciled. . . . That lovely filly in red nylons is just-arrived Franca Nardi, whose pater is an Italian general. . . . Woody McLoud (exec at Stern's) was married the other night to the former wife of a Grumman Aircraft prexy. . . . Mary McCarty, who crashed the Broadway heavens via "Small Wonder," had her salary doubled. . . . They insist many of Wallace's better speeches are ghosted ghost-ed by N. Mailer, author of "The Naked and the Dead." . . . Mrs. Hugh (Woo-woo!) Herbert will take the Renoath at Dallas, her home burg. |