Voice of Broadway Broadway Bulletin Board By DOROTHY KILGALLEN , NEW YORK Rudolph Bing's ' decision to reduce the size of tne claque at the Metropolitan Opera has caused more of a furor among the stars than first reports indicated. Many of the irate foreign ; names, who con- - sider the -'- .' "as necessary! Jr as bread," are shrieking that J they ' wul never come back after this season . . . Hollywood has a new scandal, stiil at the whisper stage uui uaoxe 10 nit the front DaeesA The " manager - husband of a fa- Kileallen mous film 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 Marisnne O'Brien Reynolds is tossing the big Florida wing - ding 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 McCar-ey is shooting in Spain this Summer. 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, Geo Moore, Lisa Ferraday and Sherry Britton. (Oh, Man! Oh, Woman!) ... 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 c'an 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 oosomy young Italian beauty who landed the lead in Warners' "Heien of Troy," will get the Marilyn Monroe buildup from fan magazines. She's married to a gent named Marco Vicario and is the mother of a little boy . . . Wcolie 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. Watch out, girls! Mr. John's list of the 10 worst-hatted women in America comes out this week. He doesn't bother with the 10 best because he thinks females learn fast-er from bad examples than from good ones . . . Joe Loco's Quintet, currently playing at the Sahara in Las Vegas, won so many thousands at the dice table they're pooling it to invest in a rhumba spot out there. A Washington magazine has three reporters gathering material on Porfirio Rubirosa in preparation for an article, the editors hope will be the most sizzling of all . . . Bobby McGuire, who left "20 Questions" four years ago to go to college, is back on the panel . , . Nick Prounis of the Versailles is hospital-bound for a checkup, possible surgery . . . The Duchess of Kent is incensed at Lord Beaver-brook for attacking her brother-in-law, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, in his newspapers. Ina Claire must know the secret of How to Fascinate Your Man and in a big way. Her husband, William Ross Wallace, had to fly to San Francisco for his law practice while she remained in New York in "The Confidential Clerk." But glamor triumphed over Gladstone: Mr. Wallace started yearning while still in flight, never left the airport at Frisco, and came back to Gotham on the next available plane. Jack Brooks, who wrote the song click, "That's Amore," adores Dorothy Baker, a West Coast actress. He . considers her the inspiration for the ditty, which sold i;200,000 copies and may wind up with an Academy Award . . . Mrs. Jack Frye (formerly Nevada Smith of the girl shows) actually is wearing black for her dog, "Meatball" who died suddenly. The recent flood of newspaper articles on juvenile delinquency have afforded a breathing spell to some of the 42d Street movie houses, usually plagued by the wild ones. Many of the most troublesome of the switchblade set are making themselves scarce for fear of being picked up while "the heat" is on . . . Ollie Matson, the Olympic track star, will waltz down the aisle with his childhood sweetheart, Mary Paige of San Francisco. No one is sure whether his dates with Ava Gardner had anything to do with it, but Italian comedian Walter Chiari has broken his engagement to motion picture actress Lucia Bose . . . Dinah Washington, the blues singer, will enter a hospital around the first of June for a serious abdominal operation . . . Lillian Roth's streak of good . fortune at long last has a new topper: She's struck oil on the 160 acres she owns in New Mexico.
