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Show Girl Friday Reports Dear Mr. W.: Here's an angle none of the gazettes touched in the Aly Khan-Rita Hayworth thing. The Prince was in love with Lady Thel-ma Thel-ma Furness, just when her romance with the Duke of Windsor was disintegrating dis-integrating ... I happened across it in the book, "Champagne Cholly. by Eve Brown, who was the late Maury Paul's right-hander. She reveals re-veals it was Aly who broke up the romance with His Royal Highness . Hundreds of wires, letters and phone calls regarding Gieseking; only three complaints . . . Benny has the throne again in the new Hooper with 28.9. Radio Theatre is 2nd with 28.6. Fibber McGee and Molly are 3rd with 26.9. We're 4th with 26.8. Your recent 29.7 is still the season's high. Time's book reviewer panned Lajos Zilhy's novel, "The Du-kays," Du-kays," which Prentice-Hall just unveiled. It is getting rave reviews re-views all over the nation. The book is about two sisters, daughters daugh-ters of a fabulous Hungarian aristocrat so Time's critic calls them mother and daughter . . . The same mag roasted "The Miracle of the Bells," which went over 500,000 copies and is printed In almost every lingo . . . The Immigration people are cracking down, on musicians deporting many rhumba lads. Some of the pickets were ready to put lamp shades on the lights at Carnegie Hall but the news flashed about Gieseking being cancelled so they're saving it for next time. A recent flop show, "Leaf and Bough," elicited some eyebrow-raising eyebrow-raising critical reactions. One critic hailed the director, another praised the cast and a third lauded the author. auth-or. But all three panned the show . . . Arturo Godfrey (who may be trying to catch up with some hearse for all I know) plans taking on extra ex-tra work, again. He will do between-innings between-innings chatter at the N. Y. Giants' games this Summer . . . The book business is still not so good. The Book-of-the-Month Club selection used to guarantee an author over $100,000. They just cut the guarantee again down to 70 . . . You'll adore Milada Mladova, the galerina in "All for Love." Resembles Hedy and dances like Zorina. Made my heart jig. The literary world was aghast at the Authors' Dinner last week where Dr. Henry Seidel Canby lit into the "young'i war writers. He said nothing worthwhile ' had come from them to date. John Hersey and Ira Wolfert were in the audience and when Canby said there were only two good war books ("War and Peace" and "Gone with the Wind") someone cracked: "Doc, you stopped at the Civil War!" After "Miss Liberty" is staged Moss Hart and family will dwell abroad for six months . . . Gene Autry bought "Beyond the Purple Pur-ple Hills" for his next flicker. It's by Nick and Charles Kenny. Johnny Brandford's Victor record of it is a' hit . . . It's a girl for the Robert Healys (Mary McCabe) . . . Edwin James, the m.e. at the Times, and his ass't, Turner Cat-ledge, Cat-ledge, are fussin' over the wisdom wis-dom of putting out an edition at 9 p.m. Mr. James says nh-nh. Here's another citation for the FBI. Several minutes after the army gave that traitor (Monti) an honorable discharge and released re-leased him the G-Men locked him up for treason. He's doing 25 years. He's the one who said (at his trial) that isolationist publications pub-lications and speeches "poisoned his mind." For which some of them sued you for libel. And lost . . . Massachusetts gambling, 1 hear, is expected to be wide open within the month . . . One of the swank spot owners was recently vetoed for membership at the Players' Play-ers' club. No less than six blackballs black-balls . . . Fascist chief of London Moseley's only daughter, Vivian, has merged with Desmond Francis Forbes Adams . . . Funniest bit in years is Peter Lind Hayes' panto mine of the Pres. Doesn't say word. They recognize the smile anr walk! Gabe Heatter was praised in ai editorial in a Southern papei (name. I know not) for praising something you said on the ah recently. He did it again Mon day night when Gieseking was chased back to Germany. He pref aced the news with. "Winchell's right again!" Doesn't Mr. Heat ter know you're not on his network? . . Dean Acheson's mustache (turned up) has started a bunch o) them among the swank set. In early September we said Nehru's niece would soon wed, and she confirmed it the other day. We scooped the Hindustan! Times, by heck! Prima donnas nowadays have be come so tame that two rivals at the Met (Pons and Munsel) are handled by the same publicist. |