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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1952 ad 13 Monday Morning Qossip of The Nation Austine Whitney Bolton Herb Stein HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 24. BETWEEN March and April the busiest little bee around here is gonna be Jerry Geisler, what with the NEW YORK, Feb. 24.

ROBERT E. SHERWOOD will provide the foreword for Merle Miller's forthcoming book, "The Judges and the Judged," which is about the authors of "Red Channels" Carol Channing is recovering from a fall to Omaha, when the near signted star misjudged her distance onstage, stepped into the footlights and suffered severe cuts on her legs. It didn't stop her from finishing the dance and her performance After Miss Channing completes her tour in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" which has a Paris setting and before starting her next show, "Can Can," which also has a Paris setting, she'll make her first trip to Paris Vice President Barkley will be the next Fall Guy at the Saints Sinners, following Ezio Pinza's appearance there Monday. Last week a White House visitor who has known the President for many years had a con Wisconsin primary and win the support from the former LaFollette On March 10 "Affairs of State" will the Plymouth Theater in Boston. the star, was asked where she during the Boston run, she replied: YMCA.

But if you can't get me in the Ritz." three plane crashes in Elizabeth, to the Port Authority by the endangered who live near Newark Airport, the that field has been diverted to La-Guardia This, in turn, brought protests live near the two Long Island airports are endangered. The authorities, that this traffic be diverted to N. Y. One of these airfields is in So far, none of the people who live has protested to the Port Authority. S.

Cullman, Commissioner of the a home there, right next door to 4 Texas was taken by her N. Y. hostess at the Ziegfeld Theater, to see the had front row orchestra seats, the conductor of the theater's orchestra. glanced at the program, read that Jacques Singer, and said to her if that's the same one, that wonderful Singer we had conducting the Dallas The conductor heard it, "Yes, Madam. The same.

I'm the gasped the lady, who had been taken smiled to the former Dallas Symphony now working in a Broadway theater "Congratulations." of the Stanley Theater, where shown, now announces that in the Russians have succumbed and, for the first time in 50 kiss to be recorded on film East Boston, collected the by the publishers of the "Official Baseball" for naming a big league from the book. He proved that in Clarke, of the Actors Club, came to substitute for an injured The new "Proverbs of the these: "Pray to God, but do not "The Wrath of Stalin is the And "You cannot buy wisdom none at home." ference with him. They both knew that the White House reporters were waiting to question the visitor as soon as he left "Mr. President," the man said, "I'm going to disappoint those reporters, because I won't have any news for them on the thing in which they're interested. I'm going to be the only one who's come in here to talk to you and never once mentioned your running for re-election" "You were the only one who didn't mention it," replied the President, "until a minute ago." SJ I AM PRYOR, the Republican rope yesterday to confer with Olsen Johnson will play the WASHINGTON, Feb.

24. DEMOCRAT high-ups chewing the rag-bag over The Letter the confidential letter PERLE MESTA supposedly wrote to an important friend here soon after death of King George I'm sure Madame Minister would be disappointedlf she knew that the so-called friend has been peddling the following information as straight from the Minister's mouth: that, in spite of all of her love for Luxembourg, Perle is thinking of leaving. In other words, now, with a woman on the throne of Great Britain, the U. S. should be represented at St.

James's by a woman And as soon after the coronation as possible Pluggers for Smart Girl Perle insist if she' produces energy and campaign dough in the coming months for old political pals who knows, she may get "Ambassador" yet? ANOTHER AMBASSADOR: ANGIER BIDDLE DUKE, who right-handed STANTON GRIFFIS in Spain, has his heart and mind set on being an Ambassador, too Whether he has contributed to the right Democrats to get the post makes no difference Mr. Duke did a creditable job in Spain and before that in Argentina Ever since his return, the State Dept. has been considering a raise in rank and a job such as Ambassador to El Salvador for him Friends were betting, however, that if he goes as envoy he'll go alone. KILROY Was Here Remember that? But FRANK KIL-ROY doesn't know how long he's here for Kilroy was secretary to the late REPRESENTATIVE BYRNE, of N. who died last month GOVERNOR DEWEY should call a special election either March 1 or this fall Meantime, Frank Kilroy is running the office without a Congressman.

If you'Tlike to watch the Democrats frolicking at the ilOO-a-plate party, just hire yourself out as a waiter for the night of March 29 Practically ANYBODY is eligible trained or not! For this night the Mayflower and Statler Hotels, who are catering the staggering banquet of 6000 people, are already scrapping barrel bottoms for scarce waiters They hope to enlist 600 men, have so far even combed the local colleges. And no wonder waiters are needed for the fund-raising, hell-raising Jefferson Day There'll be 30,000 pieces of silver to handle 12,000 assorted glasses 6000 demitasses 18,000 plates And 6000 dinner plates on which will be served 6000 steaks, quick-browned at the hotels around noon of the 29th, put into heaters to keep warm until loaded on trucks that night With the other food and drink, the steaks will be driven three miles with a police escort through city traffic to the National Guard Armory and then served. BESS RELENTS: Every one of MRS. EARLE STEWART'S ringlets was shaking with emphasis as she talked about her friends, the Trumans, a few nights ago at beau-about-town, MARVIN BRAVERMAN'S dinner Like Mr. Braverman, who has often escorted the Trumans daughter, MRS.

STEWART is a great friend of the White House family, especially the distaff side The other night, I'm told, she stamped her platform soles punctuating her prediction that Truman WILL RUN Bess has removed her objections. HOW IS TRUMAN FELT FOR PRESIDENT? That's not "bad English I really wanted to know, so interviewed MR. TRUMAN FELT, sworn in last week as new. president of the National Press Club. This Truman was a correspondent for a Missouri paper before the other Truman was President, and by now has been glutted with gags.

"I've become allergic to Truman jokes," he yawns, and makes clear that: "President Truman and President Truman Felt are no relation. We're friends. Truman once offered to invent a relationship. That we could draw up a contract to be cousins. Truman is a name my mother picked out of a book.

The President once told me he knew where she got it. From a novel called, 'Grace Truman," popular around the turn of the century when I was born. The President said they had a copy of it on the family bookshelf in Independence." Having the same name doesn't politically Influence Felt, a correspondent for Governor Cox's papers since the Missouri Star-Times folded "I'm for a change, for the better. History, however, may be a little more kind to Truman than we are today. I like the guy personally." An artilleryman in World War new Press Club president Truman Felt (15 years younger than President Truman) has a boy 21 and a girl 23.

She does not sing The greatest music to his ears is the music of the waves i He's an avid shell collector Has cases and cases, many yet unclassified, of mostly Florida shells. "Most people in Washington would think I was nuts if I told them I'd been picking up shells since 1926, and that I've written articles on tree snails," says Mr. Felt, "or that the biggest thrill in my life was when I found an extremely rare snake only three have been discovered in the last 50 years on one of the Florida Keys. Last year, after the big storm, my wife and I headed for Florida by air, but when we got there many of the shells were gone. We'll have better luck next time." Ambassador Peurifoy flew back to Greece last night Armand Denis, the producer of African adventure movies, is buying the Tree Top Lodge to Mobassa, the place where Elizabeth and Philip were staying when they learned of King George's death.

Denis lives nearby, in Nairobi, and intends to shoot his next movie around the Lodge Bonwit Teller, the 5th Ave. store, will display in its window the tattered dress worn by 'Katharine Hepburn in "The African Queen." Last week, the Met Opera's presentation of Richard Strauss opera, "Electra," was accorded rave notices. This was in marked contrast to the press reception when the opera had its world premiere in Germany, over 40 years ago. At that time the foremost music critic of Germany wrote a three -line review about the new work: "If they must give you let it be by Euripedes. If it's got to be Strauss, then let it be by Johann Strauss.

And if it's got to be Richard, then for heaven's sake let it be Wagner." the comic, was an infantryman in He fought at St. Lo, and during watched some tanks arrive, saw the open and the head of a soldier brother," he shouted, then called to man waved, retired into the tank When Foster came home, he said: "My friends all thought I discharge by claiming to see my Was that you in the tank?" Abe why didn't you answer me?" Foster brother shrugged: "There was a war iHE State Dept. will be queried Niemoeller was given a visa to enter the U. S. this month, in view of the fact that he was able to visit Moscow recently Sen.

but one of the few good ones. It fortune to have an apartment Village, on Washington Square, one but three fireplaces, which was in a big way even though the apartment comparatively inexpensive one. It was large, old buildings, built back in the was a definite necessity. There room. Gable Fairbanks divorce 1 up (to be settled) amicably as of the last report), the William a ans ditto, and finally and in addition to the nor-m a 1 business Geisler has a slight matter of the Walter Wan-ger case on his agenda.

JERKY GEISLER Last named event will probably be continued until April, Geisler insisting that MCA bring a witness back from New York Jennings Lang, by the way, is still with nurse "Chuck" Dressen has bought himself a home in Bel Air and is going as first class as his team intends to go this season Clifton Webb teaches an entire new generation how to dance in his new 20th picture, "Dream Boat," in which he dances on the celluloid for the first time. Chaplin's gonna have some headaches editing his "Limelight" shot an unusually large amount of footage The Los Angeles Press Club has invited Juliana, Queen of The Netherlands, to be its guest at an eight-ball dinner here during her April visit Eugene Frenke and Seymour Nebenzahl are duet-ing for a picture New York TVer Alix Talton gets her first screen break in Universale "Sally and St. Ann" After a two months' search, you can mark it a cinch that it'll be Richard Jaeckel for the role of "Turk" in Hal Wallis' "Come Back, Little Sheba." The State Department is behind the Congress for Cultural Freedom slated for Paris next May. It's the anti-commie answer to that phoney peace front the Reds staged last year And you can look for plenty of help from Hollywood Universal has latched onto Tod Andrews for flicker. He's playing the downtown company of "Mr.

Roberts" Hunt Stromberg senior and junior are spending a great deal of time together these days. Mrs. Senior's passing seems to have drawn them closer than they've ever been. According to Henny. Youngman a fellow went to psychiatrist (couch man, to you) and the visitor had a woman's hat on, a strip of bacon down each ear and whipped cream on his hat.

He said, "Doctor, I want to talk to you about my brother." Traced It to Youngman a psychiatrist is the last guy you talk to before you start talking to yourself. When Frankie Sinatra went to San Francisco last week to plug U-I's "Meet Danny Wilson," one of the DaDers there head lined his arrival with: "A a Gardner's Third Visits City" looks like it's gonna take lots and lots doing for Frankie to win his old press chums back Danny Kaye may not admit it, but he ain't keen on his leading lady. Re- ANN SHERIDAN nee Jeanmaire, in Goldwyn 's "Hans Christian Andersen." They're anything but cozy It's probably a first: A plumber getting to be glorified in U-I's "Just Across the Street" instead of being the butt of jokes and screwy situations. John Lund plumbs it straight opposite Annie Sheridan The Crosby Foundation has a gang of gal guinea pigs in Ontario swallowing its pills. This is pellet-gimmick that's supposed to make straight hair curly! Results of the experiment will be ready in about 60 days, when you'll know if you can have a "pill permanent." Clark Gable's television appearance for the "I Like Ike" Madison Square Garden rally is likely to crack it wide open for other contract stars to hit the video medium during the election campaign and use that wedge for personal appearances that'll pay off in fold in' scratch The Gable venture has 'em up in the ether at M-G-M, the studio with which he's at loggerheads and from which he'd like a divorce as much as he does from Sylvia.

THEY'LL DO IT EVERY NEW YORK, Feb. 24. FRIEND of mine has the funniest way of starting a blaze in a fireplace I ever saw and I have a small suspicion that this custom is somewhat national in our fair land. First you get some old newspapers and crumble them up to start the blaze under the kindling wood. Then you build the kindling wood properly and put the logs on top.

Trouble here is that my friend can nver get finished with the old newspapers. He pulls one out, is about to crumple a page and suddenly notices an item that he must have missed in the past. He starts reading I have watched this man spend a half hour reading before he got any kindling wood into the fireplace. It's a habit that he can't seem to stop once he starts, like eating peanuts. consisted of a floor through and fireplace in all three rooms living.

bedroom. Naturally we only burnt NEW YORK, Feb. 24. I DON'T want to order a new set of vest buttons, but it begins to look as though we fathers of twins are aomg ourselves these days. There's John O'Reilly, whose girls are around 12 years old.

and he has written a book about evolution in terms a child can under-stand and react to. And then there's Jimmy Stewart, a movie actor, the '3 JAMES STEWART only man in the world I ever heard of who voluntarily took a pay cut of $11,979 a month because of something he loved. What he loved was America. The roster of twin-fathers who are scratching mark for themselves in the world we live in could go on from there, but I'm fetched by the Stewart story today. I'm fetched because he has a picture coming up which shoals of people with no axes to grind described as the best Western ever made, because I have read maybe 20 biographical sketches on the man, all uniformly twaddle, and because for no assignable reason at all I want to talk about him today.

Maybe I want to help a fellow twin-father out. Now let's tell the things about Stewart no one else ever has told: Jimmy once won an Academy Oscar in Hollywood for a fine performance. Many people have wondered what he did with the gold statuette, since it never was on display in his house. You will find it in Indiana, on a shelf in his father's hardware store nestled snugly between plowshares (steel) and screen doors (unpaint-ed). Although there are three complete albums available on "I Hear It Now," authentic voices of very important people saying very important things, Stewart regrets that none of the albums carries what the late Jane Cowl had to say the night Jimmy, as a rattled stage manager, rang the curtain down; one minute too early on her death scene in "Camille." He firmly be-" lieves her vivid words merit inclu- sion in the historic series.

Three different plays are named as the ones in which Stewart made his Broadway acting debut. The one never mentioned is the cor-' rect one: "Carrie Nation." in! which he played five roles, one-being a 70-year-old Negro houseman and the other by some alchemy of theater a four-foot dwarf. It was folding up his 6.3 frame into this accordioned midget that, probably, conditioned him to play "Bend of the River," which is the western movie he Just made. If you could bend two feet, three inches off Stewart you could easily bend any river on the map. When the war came, Stewart was the second man in Hollywood to enlist.

The first was a bus boy in a studio restaurant. The bus boy didn't lose too much pay, but Stewart gave up, freely and with elation, almost $12,000 a month. He began earning $21 a month but kept his contract with his theatrical agent, Leland Hayward, sending that stunned world figure $2.10 regularly every pay day. Stewart shares with Clark Gable another Army first; they were the only two privates in Army history who had special orders issued concerning them: "It is forbidden tc ask Pvt. J.

Stewart for his auto graph." Gable had the same issued about him When the war ended, with a chest full of medals for Stewart and a Colonel's wings on his shoulders, he had a new clause inserted in his contracts: "It is agreed and understood by both parties that the principal's service record shall never be referred to" in publicity stories." Many a man has met his bride' under unusual circumstances and one man, Charles MacArthur, the nlowvtv, I. 1, ainj, 4UUICU fts having offered a handful of peanuts to Helen Hayes, saying: "I wish they were Stewart met his wife-to-be on Christmas Eve sitting on a neighbor's doorstep. He looked at her, then op at the sky, then back at her. "What Christmas tree did yon fall off?" he asked. She was Mrs.

Gloria Hatrir.k McLean and she married him not too long after that. They have, as I said, twins. "Had liltle spat with the wife sorious. but 1 ure nuuiu'e bowea pa DOUBLE TAKE 0 COURSE, if you are rich those Cape Cod lighters iron filled with kerosene consisting of a small pot in which you keep jLonella Parsons HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 24.

KIRK DOUGLAS is mighty interested in buying the rights to "Darkness at Noon" for himself. This is the play in. which Edward G. Robinson is currently starring in Los Angeles. The asking price is but if Kirk stars in it he will be on a percentage basis, with the authors, Sidney Kingsley and Arthur Koestler, sharing in KIRK DOUGLAS the profits.

There have been many conferences and much talk. However, Kirk, who plans to star himself in independent productions, will do a Ben Hecht original, "The Shadow," first. He bought It some time ago and now has ample financial backing. More and more actors want to share in the gravy and are buying plays and getting the do-re-mi to produce them. I always say that Clifton Webb can do anything, and Darryl Zanuck knows what he's doing when he casts a picture.

So Clifton will probably carry off all kinds of honors as John Phillip Sousa. I remember seeing Sous in bis Marine uniform and his pointed beard, bowing from the waist, many years ago. Saturday June Haver and Rory Calhoun were set as the romantic leads in "Stars and Stripes," the title of the Sousa epic. Rory, by the way, is much better. He has been suffering from bronchial pneumonia.

I am sorry to report that the marriage of Deedee Barrymore and Thomas Fairbanks is on the rocks. I talked with Deedee, who is the daughter of John Barry-more and Dolores Costello, and she said she is trying to start a career in motion pictures and that' her marriage just didn't work out. Deedee, who is only 22, and Fairbanks, who is the son of Edward Fuchs, well-known Viennese musician, were married in 1949, and they have a small daughter. I suppose I could say about Deedee, as we say about so many young people if these kids would think before they rush into marriage. Her mother, her Aunt Ethel, and all the family begged her to wait.

Jane Wyman had that new look In her eyes so I pinned her right down and said, "what's this about you and Travis Kleefeld? Every night I hear that you and he are having dinner in some quiet place or appear at a night spot. Is this It?" "He's awfully nice," said Jane, "and you'll like him. TU bring him over to see you." But more than that I couldn't get her to say. "Marriage isn't on my mind now," she said. Then she went on to say how pleased she is that Ronnie Reagan found Nancy Davis, who is such a nice girL That's quite a gal, that Jane and if this is right for her I hope it does mean marriage.

Weill Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe gazing into each other's eyes at the Tall yho and here I thought Joe and his wife, Dorothy, had a ctically conciled. Here's another item of interest. Rita Hay worth and Charles 1 man, who quarreled, were together again at a quiet table for two at Jack's at the MARILYN MONROE beach. When Nancy Davis and Ronald Reagan get married early in March they'll be accompanied by the William Holdens, their closest friends. Morton Downey is in town with his bride.

This is her first visit to Hollywood and Morton's introducing her to his friends. Franz Waxman's wedding gift to Elizabeth Taylor is a recorded score of "Place in the Sun" for which he is up for an Academy-award. Franz won last year for "Sunset Boulevard." He is also busy on his annual Franz Waxman Festival here, which isn't held until June, but arrangements are completed, and I must say they encompass a wonderful idea. This year's theme is "A Festival of the Churches" with three major musical works being presented in a Catholic and a Protestant church, and a Jewish temple. The plan to put Bette Davis In the Palace in New York is by no means cold.

Discussions are still on and the whole deal hinges on whether Bette feels the material is good for her. Robert Alton has been contacted about staging the act and there is none better for this type of thing. I must say Bette's marriage to Gary Merrill has been a great thing for her. She is so happy in her home life and for Bette, who takes everything in her stride, to be so happily enthusiastic about her new adopted son well, it's heart warming. When I met Donna Lee Hickey several months ago I thought what a very pretty and charming girl she is.

She was eager to get going in the movies, but nothing muQh happened. Now, apparently, everything is happening at once. She has signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox and if this isnt' exciting enough, the Veterans of Foreign Wars have named her "Miss Leap Year" and Donna will reign as "Queen of the Loyalty Day Parade" with Gen. Douglas MacArthur on April 28 In New York. 1 Leonard Lyons CAROL CHANNING leader, flew to Eu Eisenhower Palace Theater P1 HIL FOSTER, on how Pastor Kefauver insists Tom Uoillv that meant dining and you have one of simply because Ed Sullivan to 361 enemy aircraft, of which 226 have been MIGs.

Early in January, I phoned Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg's office to check pessimistic reports of Air Force officers back from Korea. They were telling locals that Commie planes are equipped with cannon, while our planes are armed with machine guns. Air Force answered this way: "That's true, but firepower of our machine guns is so much faster and greater that our guys knock them down in a 10- to-1 ratio. Until we can step up the rate of fire of cannon-armed planes, our kids insist on machine guns." Obviously, the 10-to-l ratio doesn't work out on paper.

The Commies, according to these official figures, have been knocking us down 4-to-l, whether in combat" or via ground fire. NAVY LEAGUE smartly using a speech made by Will Rogers on Dec. 7, 1924, to advance their fight for a bigger Navy, via circu- By Jimmy Hatlo HOTUlHQ SPREADS LIKE A MEW MiFTy-fT POESM'T EVEN HAVE TO BE 500Q THAHX AND A SWEEP OF THS HATLO FEDORA TO tT.EDGAf? QAR3AU, i28 v. 4rSMy.ory Ik-A V'' 3 st that he'll enter the delegation, with Progressives start its tour at When June Havoc, preferred to stay "First, at the there, then I'll take Because of the and the protests families plane traffic from and Idlewild. from those who and feel they therefore, directed other airfields near Purchase, N.

Y. near this airfield In fact, Howard Port Authority, has the airfield. A LADY from to a matinee Oliviers. They directly behind The visitor the conductor was hostess: "I wonder Jacques Symphony Orchestra" wheeled and said: one" "Oh," unawares, then conductor and said, The management Russian films are "Dream of a Cossack" to Western influence years, permitted a Frank P. Bruno, of $50 reward Encyclopedia of ballplayer missing 1889 Harry Corson out of the grandstand Washington player USSR" include offend Stalin, forerunner of death," abroad if there is the 4th Division.

a lull he cover of one tank emerge, "It's my him The tank again and drove off saw his brother and was bucking for a brother at St. Lo. nodded. "Then asked His on." fectation, naturally, was once my good down in Greenwich that featured not putting on swank was a in one of those days when-a fireplace was one in every UR apartment a fires in all three Christmas or the price of wood for high. You can't storefronts.

This apartment, rented by late who is buried inside it was a made us laugh amusing evenings it over. It should EVERYBODY should be starts than you would to poke the fire Skinner wrote a poking a fire, one she picked up the to be courteous, and say politely, she could poke a cow. Many of these but you've got to quite how really require a art of using a house that burns Gotta match, Bud? a porous stone on the end of an iron handle about 10 inches long. Just build your fire, light the ball, stick it in and let her burn. Those Cape Codders knew a thing or two, but they never had the pleasure of reading a newspaper before building the fire but perhaps it's too cold up there.

Another reason I am opposed to a Cape Cod lighter is the fact that it makes such a handy weapon in a domestic row. A dame can swing it like her pocketbook and it is absolutely lethal. of them on state occasions like arrival of the boss. Because the a fireplace in New York is mighty Just go out and start chopping down by the way, had been once John Reed, the Harvard radical the Kremlin, poor sucker. Consequently sort of Communist shrine which right out lour and provided many when nuts would turn up to look have been taken over by the FBI.

has his own ideas about how a fire built in a fireplace and when anyone there are more back-seat drivers find in a bus. Also everybody wants they are watching. Cornelia Otis wonderful magazine piece about time. She said that every time poker some greedy male, pretending would grab it out of her hands "Allow me." She then insisted that fire better than even Mrs. OXeary's fireplaces are coal burning Jobs have English ancestors to understand they operate.

Those are the ones that blower. I would love to learn the fireplace blower but I won't live in a only coal so I guess I'll never learn. Judy Jennings R' EASON I bring all this up is fireplace-time is upon us in full right now and despite its subways and escalators and other fancy city trappings New York is a great fireplace town. In fact, I'll bet there are more fireplaces in Manhattan than there were in Springfield, 111., when Lincoln was practicing law there. New apartment houses, heated by great plants that warm-up all the big buildings in the neighborhood all feature fireplace apartments because their builders know very well that the old time chimney blaze will always make a place homey.

In a large apartment house a fireplace fs an af- NEW YORK, Feb. 24. S. STEEL prexy Benjamin F. Fairless points out that the book value' of steel's common stock is $70.

Explaining why it's selling for less than $40, Fairless sums up national business uneasiness with Washington "genius." Says Fairless: "Out of every dollar that U. S. Steel earned last year, our stockholders got less than 3 cents. The Federal Government took four times as much in taxes as our stockholders collected in dividends" On the Detroit front, suppliers for the big motor companies say that sufficient copper is available to permit raising of automobile production schedules without hindering the defense effort, the NPA assertions of a copper shortage are "more statistical than real." OFFICIAL fieures from Toyko show 1153 U.N. planes have been shot down in Korea, opposed TIME PHILADELPHIA AMAIN LINE daughter was heard to remark she didn't know why the Kefauver Committee didn't investigate the MLMGA a club of eight prominent women who've banded together for cards call themselves the "Main Line Mothers' Gambling Association." "Skipper" (Colin) Lofting, of West Grove, hard at work on a biography of his father famed Hugh Lofting who penned the "Dr.

Doolittle" classics When not at his typewriter "Skipper" likes nothing better than shooting crows is one of the best known "Crow callers" in the country. When Alice Roberts headed for Stowe, for a bit of winter sports she didn't go in for buying an outfit borrowed the ekiis and ski pants of father George Brooke Roberts So he tan't ski 'til she returns. It happened in the powder room of one of the most exclusive women's clubs in the city Two very typical elderly Phila-delphians were discussing the King's funeral "Oh yes, Mary" said one, "I rose at 4:30 o'clock this morning to listen to the original broadcast, but I must confess, I didn't dress. I felt it rather unseemly of me, as I dressed when I rose to listen to the Coronation. But this year I didn't awaken in time." John and Ellie Simmons, of Panama one of the recently featured Ladies Home Journal young couples hard at work writing and illustrating Ellie works at home on illustrations for forthcoming books and magazine between assignments painting murals on the kitchen, nursery and living room walls.

Carroll Tyson typical of "a painter's painter" sold several of his Maine landscapes turned around bought two canvasses done by Henry Pitz Mrs. Bill Scull writes a column monthly for "Outdoor Life" magazine under her maiden name It's slanted toward wives of hunters and fishermen The R. Marshall Truitts sail Friday for a stay in Italy and France Their longest visit will be in Spain prior to arriving here May 14. Caroline Eccles out of the cast she's been wearing since a bad spill last fall while hunting with the Cheshire Fox Hounds Justice of the Supreme Court, Charles Alvin Jones and his "missus" off for the Southlands where he'll recuperate from a recent illness Col. Howard Fair back in the saddle alter a bad fall before Christmas.

The Preston M. Liversidges frightened by a rabid fox In the front yard at "Sycamore Farm," their West Chester place Walter Hancock, (head of the Sculpture Department of the Schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts) working on his most recent commission a War Memorial for the PRR to be installed within a few months in 30th Street station A resident of Lanesville, the sculptor and his wife are living this winter in Chestnut Hill. Mrs. Alex Biddle enjoying life at the Florida plantations of two New York friends, Mrs. Benjamin Moore and Mrs.

Sheldom Whitehouse She'll be home in time for the concert of baritone Gerard Souzay which she and Miss Gertrude Ely sponsor March 17 at the tatter's Bryn Mawr home. The John Kennedys now in Quatertown ruuning a tree farm Jean Skidmore and Ethel Campbell set forth by car for Miami to spend 10 days en route, visiting among others Jack and Peggy LaFore at Sea Island, Ga. Husbands Dick and Ed go down later to join their wives, then fly to the Isle of Pinos off the Cuban coast for two or three weeks of fishing. Three-year-old Patricia Gould didn't make a whimper sitting in the barber chair to have her bangs trimmed When 'most over she almost bowled her mother and the barber over by saying; to the latter: "Now beat it!" William H. Whyte, now an editor of FORTUNE magazine is author of the book Simon Shuster is publishing this spring Adapted rom the controversial FORTUNE series Bill wrote on the "Wives of Management," it's to be called "Is Anybody Listening?" The author recently took a vacation breather to Bermuda prior to whipping the manuscript into shape David Rivinus also a FORTUNE staffer an assistant to publisher C.

D. Jackson. lars to the country. It was time Secretary Hughes told the world we'd sink our fleet as evidence of U. S.

good faith, and Rogers kidded it this way: "You see, up to then, battleships always had been sunk by the enemy, so when Mr. Hughes proposed to sink 'em ourselves, it was the most original idea that had ever percolated the mind of a statesman. Sinking your own boats is a military strategy that will always remain in the sole possession of America. Now they are talking of having another naval disarmament conference. We can only stand one more.

If they ever have a second one, Uncle Sam will have to borrow a boat to go to it." BEST moving picture industry spokesman is George Murphy. At the seventh anniversary banquet of the 52 Association, in the Waldorf-Astoria, Murphy, as head of the Motion Picture Coordinating Committee, presented a clear-cut, impressive recital of the Job which Hollywood 3tars have done in carrying entertainment to troops in Korea, Germany, Alaska, the Caribbean and TJ. S. hospitals. They've made over 2000 trips, involving close to 7000 performers.

"The pledge of your 52 Association," said Murphy, "is that 'the wounded shall never be I pledge that we, on the West Coast, will stay right in there and keep pitching in the same vein." Bert Lahr Jumped in as TV pinch-hitter for Eddie Foy, when Mrs. Foy died in her sleep this morning. JOHN JENKINS, WJZ TV, whose mother is Lillian Jenkins of Madison Square Garden, weds Philinda Ward, of the Young and Rubicam clan. Billy Rose dating Betty Furness. Mrs.

Gary Cooper El Moroccoing with Howell von Gerbig's party. Rockefeller Rink onlookars eyeing Jennifer Jones and her two youngsters, assisted by maids, on the rink. Neil -Hamilton starts his fifth year on ABC-TV Hollywood Screen Test show to April. The little boy being adopted by Hazel Scott and Adam Clayton Powell arrives in April. Newsreel audiences chuckling as a candidate solemnly proclaims: "I expect to be the first vegetarian in the White House." rnv, IP UAJ THIS ONE, WERE SMMESE-.

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