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Show WALTER WINCHELL Man About Town H Duce's youngest son, Romano Mussolini, prob'ly will elope with Gioconda Mancuso of Forio d'Ischia . . . Queen Alexandrine of Denmark 1 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 getHjalmar 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? Was that Virginia Hill in a Mexican Mexi-can brawl with a tougher gal the other day? Reports say there never was such a hair-pulling bout . . . Barrie O'Daniels, ex-exec for J. J. Shubert (now Mr. Big at Detroit's Civic Light Opera), and the former Avis Kent will be 3 in March . . . Billy (Ruby Foo's) Gwan, who k-eps looking at Life's recent fluff on Dewey as "our jew President," says Dewey got the Kiss of Life . . . Kin ol the late band chief John Philip Sousa report that a recent bride using the name is not of the clan. 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 Sherman Billingsley "runs Walter Winchell's swank Stork Club." . . . Which it ain't. . . . But Pearson's readers believe everything be says about J. Parnell Thomas (as who 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. . . . Drew has another skewp, Mr. Thomas will certainly be Feeneysh'd. . . . Pun my soull 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 (he pair) are getting $40, despite the experts who claim it'll be "no contest." |