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Show IIWil Man About Town: n Duce's youngest son, Romano Mussolini, prob'ly will elope with Gioconda Mancuso of Forio d'Ischia . . . Queen Alexandrine of Denmark is ailing . . . Sir Ivor Thomas and Lady Thomas have phffft in London Lon-don . . . It's a boy for the Count and Countess of Caithness . . . Ex-Ambassador J. P. Kennedy isn't really trying to get Hjalmar Schacht (Hitler's boy) over here as his economic eco-nomic adviser? . . . Hotel rates along Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, Wash-ington, have skyrocketed for the inaugural in-augural parade. From $75 to $250 if the windows face the avenue . . . Jessie Royce Landis, the top-flight actress, is carrying a terrible scorch . . . They say Dis't Att'y Hogan is being fattened up (by the Dewey hierachy) to step into Mayor O'Dwyer's "florsheims" as a Fusion candidate. He's a Democrat now, as who ain't? . . . Headline: "Dewey to Raise State Income Taxes" . . . Had enough? Radio reviewer John Crosby (covering the major televiews election night) tagged the boners bon-ers of this and that commentator commenta-tor as the returns came in. He pointed out that we reported Cong. Marcantonio (N. Y.) was defeated, only to announce (soon after) he had won . . . We didn't write the flashes, John, we read them as they were handed to us from the thumping teletypes! The Freddy Bartholomews say those divorce rumors must have come straight from the political doapsters . . . Pulitzer Prize winner win-ner Fred Woltman is ill in So. Carolina Caro-lina . . . The big slump in pro-football gates marks the end of all telecasts tele-casts when contracts expire. The Bklyn Dodgers, we hear, will not resign re-sign . . . Theatre ticket brokers plan a beef to the license commish. They'll allege only agencies with an "in" are getting hit ducats . . . Ex-Cong. Richard Harless and ex-Follies ex-Follies girl Meredith Howard are looking none the worse after their several merger postponements. Not sealed yet . . . D. Safer of Columbia U. and Carole Nevans (of This Week mag) are editorializing like maaaaddd! . . . Army-Navy tix (face-valued at $12 the pair) are getting $40, despite the experts who claim it'll be "no contest." Drew Pearson, in a comedian mood the other ante meridian, revived a legend leg-end which many interviewers and editors edi-tors believed for a decade. . . . He quipped that Shermaf Billingsley "runs Walter Winchell's swank Stork Club." . . . Which it ain't. . . . But Pearson's readers believe everything he says about J. Parnell Thomas (as uiho doesn't?), and so please know Mr. Pearson was being comical. . . . Speaking of Cong. Thomas (indicted on charges of crookedness with Gov't payrolls), his real name is Feeney. . . . If Drew has another skewp, Mr. Thomas will certainly be Feeneysh'd. . . . Pun my soul! Count Alfred de Marigny, acquitted ac-quitted in the unsolved murder case of his ex-wife's zillionaire pater (in the Bahamas), is now working for a burlap bag firm on Water St. . . . What Some People Won't Do for Money Dept.: John Ball, record editor, deserted the World-Telly gazette ga-zette for a disc-jockey job in Washington Wash-ington at 15 Gs per annum . . . The Roney-Plaza Hotel has two West Point grads piloting elevators ... A stripteuse at Club Gables (Florida) is billed as "Sheila the Peeler" ... "Nature Boy" (the ditty) was declared The Song of the Year, but Bullets Durgom (who owns 12V4 per cent of it) hasn't ree'd a penny.jfet . . . It's a girl doll for the Ernest Cuneos of 40 Wall Street. Mrs. Cuneo, one of Canada's loveliest ladies, was a British counter-espionage agent. Her great work helped shorten the war. Army brass is fuming over the leak in Sec'y Forrestal's office of-fice on a meeting the other day of the state-army-navy-air force coordinating committee ... An attempt was made to lay the groundwork for a new Gov't dept. of internal security ... As evidence of what could be done, the central intelligence agencj was cited m an example . . This agency (a hangover o OSS) is slated for drastic overhauling over-hauling If congress can ever get access to the reported evince of Its ineffectiveness Many top men in the Communist Party here are in hiding . . . The FBI knows all the leaders and if an emergency comes up, they will be collared with the same dispatch used on Pearl Harbor Day . . . The New Yorker's Paris bureau reveals that the "Paris Ballet is back home, somewhat lamed by the critical drubbings it received in New York." That's the outfit Grover Whalen tried to give a clean bill to after Nazi-collaboration charges against balletimaste'r Serge Lifar, the louse, who echo'd in Variety and here . . . The latest fashion from Paree is sloping shnulders. Has U. S. shoulder-pad makers in a tizzy . . . Mrs. Tex Beneke's pet Chinchilla died. Loneliness, said the vet. You have to keep 'em in pairs. They're now $1,600 a pr. |