The Voice of Broadway By DOROTHY KILGALLEN Board decision to reduce the at the Metropolitan more of a furore than first reports inthe irate foreign names, who consider the clague "as necessary as bread," are shrieking that they will' never come back after this season. Hollywood has a new scandal, still at the whisper stage but liable to hit the front pages. The manager-husband of a famous film a actress caught her in the arms of an English actor and gave her the beating of her life. Comedian George DeWitt and his wife, model Claire Green, have reconciled and are knitting tiny garments. INTIMATES feel sure Marianne O'Brien Reynolds is tossing the big Florida wingding March 16 to announce her engagement to Alf Barton, president of the swank Surf Club. Desi Arnaz decided to say no to the "Marco Polo" movie Leo McCarey is shooting in Spain this Sum- Broadway Bulletin Rudolph Bing's size of the claque Opera has caused among the stars dicated. Many of Franchot Tone mer. Because there wasn't a part in it for Lucy. Franchot Tone has won this season's Romeo prize as far as the Lindy's set is concerned. In the past few nights he's strolled in with Mona Knox, Nancy Berg, Cleo Moore, Lisa Ferraday and Sherry Britton. (Oh, Man! Oh, Women!) . . . A well-publicized local. lawyer has left the country to dodge the heat soon to be engendered by a former client involved in a vice case. YOUNG JACK Seabrook of the frozen food fortune was in Barbados when he heard about the strike of laborers in Montego Bay, flew over to confer with the leaders, and settled the strike in half a day . . Ali Khan's love letters to Gene Tierney are so poetic her chums can quote excerpts from them. Tammany leaders are holding a kickoff dinner for Congressman FDR Jr.'s gubernatorial try--at the Waldorf on March 21. Rossana Podesta, the bosomy young Italian beauty who landed the lead in Warners' "Helen of Troy," will get the Marilyn Monroe build-up. She's married to a gent named Marco Vicario and the mother of a little boy . . Woolie Donahue's long distance calls are beamed to the Langdon on Fifth avenue, residence of Oriental beauty Pi Maria Tsien, who is both model and tobacco heiress.
