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Show WALTER WINCHELL A Few Gleanings 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 H'olly-'wood H'olly-'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," has 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 ast 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 you 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 Cong. May, convicted with the Gars-tons Gars-tons for crooked war contracts, has those inexpensive lunches in the new House Office Bldg. cafeteria. How-cum? How-cum? Signs there say "Only for Congressmen Con-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 a fight with Walter Winchell." . . . Larry, they always look weary after picking a fight with That Man. |
