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Show . Editor's Note: While Win-cheU Win-cheU Is on vacation, Jack Lait Is acting as guest columnist. Unshackled in a Garden of Eden-Best Eden-Best American Divorce, and fastest, is the decree issued by Federal Judge Moore in St. Thomas, Thom-as, Virgin Islands, U. S. A. . . . It takes eight hours to get to St, Thomas from New York via plane, flying the new nonstop route. . . . By a new regulation, after six weeks' residence, the decree is signed, eliminating long periods of publication and other delays pertinent perti-nent to Reno or Miami divorces. . . . The Virgin islands are a practically prac-tically unknown paradise few tourists, best Scotch on earth at $2.50 a fifth, cigarets 50 cents a carton, shopping for native woven products at prewar prices and your buck worth 100 cents. . . . Two American hotels Hotel 829 and the government - run Bluebeard's Castle total accommodations 60 people! . . . The Virgin islands divorce decree is the only one in the country signed by a federal judge, who is appointed by the President. ... No V. I. divorce has yet been contested by any state. Lawyers feel that the federal character char-acter of the decree puts it above protest. ... In this tropical Capri, the city-harassed American finds new world comforts along with authentic old world atmosphere like the South Sea islands once had. . . . Natives live in tiny huts, the beaches are blue and coral, the water crystal clear, with vast acres wild, awaiting settlement. . . . The government local and national is eager to sell at ridiculously low figures. fig-ures. ... At Caneel bay, on St. John (one of the U. S. Virgin group), the most breath-taking beach on earth rests its spreading white arms in cool tropical splendor splen-dor with an average of three bathers a day! Cabanas, furnished by the U. S., are usually empty. Atlantic City shut up tighter than ever. . . . The cops just sent the sad word around, and the wheels stopped rolling. . . . Jack Lynch, who lost his historic club on Philly's Walton hotel roof when sudden fire regulations closed it, is hunting a new street-floor spot there; meanwhile, he wants to take over the now dark Rainbow room, in Radio City but the Rockefellers Rockefel-lers don't seem to need the money. When George White, whose "Scandals" rivaled Ziegfeld's "Follies," ran into hit-and-run trouble in San Diego, the supposedly sup-posedly hard - hearted Broadway Broad-way boys called a meeting and chipped in for a defense fund. . . . Buddy de Sylva was the leader. . . . The kitty went to $50,000! Faye (Mrs. Roosevelt) Emerson returns to the stage at Cape Cod, Mass., August 12, in "Here Today," a warmed-over Ruth Gordon starrer star-rer of 1934. . . . It's official Joan Crawford's next is "Possessed," with Van Heflin, based on a Cosmopolitan Cos-mopolitan . magazine novelette, "One Man's Secret," by Rita Weiman. . . . Civil aeronautics bureau may not know this: When it approved an around - the - world route for TWA linked with Northwest Air-Line, Howard Hughes, who owns TWa! had an option on control of Northwest. North-west. . . . TWA is to fly N. Y. to Shanghai, via .Europe; Northwest North-west is to pick up there, flying to Alaska and Seattle. . . . Hughes' option was to become effective if, as and when Northwest got government govern-ment permission to fly the Pacific. ... So it appears Hughes, who broke the around-the-world air record, rec-ord, has in hand the around-the-world route he laid out on that famous four-day zoom. . . . And with announcement of the globe-circling globe-circling license, plus the approval of the Constellations with changes TWA stock leaped so that Hughes' holdings have been rising at a rate of about $1,000,000 a day as he lies and listens to his ribs knitting. knit-ting. Jack Dcmpsey and Jake Amron former Hollywood restaurant boss' have made a flossy offer for Henry Lustig's Longchamps tax-tainted restaurant chain. . . . "Tobacco Road" earned a fortune largely because be-cause Harry Oshrin doesn't go wild on payday. John Barton will draw $350 a week starring as Jeet er Lester on tour next season, which gives you a rough idea of what the lesser hillbilly performers will rate. Saratoga bit deeply into New York nightlife. ... The best and steadiest stead-iest spenders have flocked to the Spa which, with all its hopes, T"1 SUCh a gld-rush. ' ' ' The 0PA doesn't seem to have penetrated there Prices were pegged steep for a short season. . . But when the New York influx , fluxed in. the natives took up some notches in the jacks Now the common man with a' $5 bill doesn't know whether to lav it emu favorite to show or buy |