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It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, May 31—One lunchtime recently, Gertrude Lawrence mentioned that her house at Cape Cod had been robbed. “I didn’t see anything about it in the papers,” eommented a friend. “Of course not. I've been keeping it quiet,” Miss Lawrence replied. ‘After all that news about Hope Hampton's big robbery, I'd sound like a piker.” Gertie—as she does NOT like to be called—although thousands of people must think of her that way—nevertheless is no piker artistically. She has found another great audience for her talents in “The King and I.” And in the luxurious dressing room which she occupies at the St. James Theater she has lately taken to giving supper parties for half a dozen people or so who do NOT call her Gertie. : Gathered recently in her dressing room was a group that included the Duke of Windsor and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.—each an escort of hers at one time. And also in the dressing room was her present and more permanent beau, her husband, Navy Commander Richard Aldrich, now stationed in Washington. s One Saturday afternoon at 5:30 when I walked {nto her dressing room, I found ker entertaining another gentleman. The gentleman was her leading man, Yul Brynner, the King of “The King and 1.” They were seated at a small dining table. On it were dishes of some Chinese food. “We're being real authentic and scientific about {t—/see—chopsticks!” Miss Lawrence beamed.

SHE AND Mr. Brynner seem to get on splendidly—not a usual thing in Broadway hits, where there are problems of billings, dressing rooms, publicity, etc. When I arrived backstage, I heard one of the maids say, “Where's the teapot?” And then I saw somebody snatch it out of Mr. Brynner’'s downstairs dressing room and whip it up to the feast in Miss Lawrence's dressing room ... make that “dressing suite.” For that's what it is . , . shower. “I'll bet,” Miss Lawrence challenged, ‘that we're the only two actors on Broadway who have an intercommunication system between our dressing rooms. “It started in Boston where we had dressing rooms on the same floor and talked constantly. “We decided it was going to be awful in New York on separate floors. So I said, ‘T'll tell you, we'll put in an intercom system’.” Just like a couple of tycoons in the same corporation, they talk things over on the phone while pancaking their faces. “Yul says he doesn’t call to talk to me so much as to hear me talk back to the radio, which fs on most of the time.” Probably no other star arrives at the theater earlier than she does—about 5:30.

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Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, May 31—If I had a choice of being any single young man in this hemisphere today, I would rather be young Ed Sovola of The Indianapolis Times, currently frisking to Europe on his first foreign assignment. He has never been to Europe before, and this is his first hard shot at big adventure. ‘ He is going across on an editor’s hunch, to translate Europe in terms of himself. He knows not what strange excitements lie in wait for him across the water. All he knows is that he is going to all the glamorous capitals and see all the glamorous sights and write a piece a day from all these fanciful places — which will have his own true by-line signed to them and which will run, if they measure up, in a mess of newspapers. He doesn't know whether he’ll maybe get snaffled by the Commies or meet beautiful blonde spies or get rolled for his wad in a sinister opium dive in Limehouse, but he sure hopes so. He has been out of college only about five years, and he maintains a stone-faced air of aplomb about the whole thing. But when you see him stroke that passport—that wonderful, Jovely, first-time-ever passport—the phony air of serenity is easily discernible as ersatz. There's a kid that went to bed with his passport under his pillow, and sleep did not visit him the night before the boat sailed.

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THERE IS NO thrill I know comparable to that first foreign assignment. You are out from under the iron hand of the editors. You are off on your own personal grail. You are living on an expense account, marvelous to think. about, and you are free to get into all kinds of magnificent trouble. Wow! Bring on the lovely blonde spies! If you are a guy like Sovola you have hated everybody you ever knew who had been places you hadn’'t—out of sheer frustrated envy. The man across the ocean was a sort of superman, to you, because he was drinking aperitifs in

Montmartre bistros and inviting the confidence-

of foreign ministers and running into all sorts of odd people and places. Your mouth watered

‘Anna’s the Name For Gertrude’

NORMALLY SHE has dinner brought in from Sardi’'s, takes a nap, then wakes and gets made up for the show. After the show come the droppers-in. Immediately, when the Duke and Duchess of Windsor visited her, the Duke demanded, “Where's my picture?” “I'd had it since 1922 in the same silver frame,” Miss Lawrence explained, ‘but I hadn't got eferything unpacked yet, so it wasn’t up. “Next time they came back, it was. “The Duke,” she said, “has known me since right back to the days when I came creeping out of the chorus.” They met in '21. She was engaged to Capt. Philip Astley, who later married Madeline Carroll. The Duke, then the dashing young Prince of Wales, attended all the Charlot Revues. Miss Lawrence, not yet internationally known, was understudying Beatrice Lillie. “The Duke,” Miss Lawrence said, “knows all the songs and words from those days. He's really remarkable.”

Although she doesn't look like it, Miss Law-.

rence is fairly athletic. She plays fast tennis at Rip’s tennis courts or in the country on weekends. In a San Francisco hole-in-one golf tournament, she once scored an ace. She's also an energetic fisherwoman. She’s an active joiner. Currently she's worked up about Civilian Defense. You will not see her wearing her fingernails polished, because she's allergic to nail polish. ohn A FEW YEARS ago this was embarrassing, because she was on the radio for a nail polish company. A day or two before she started the program she discovered she was allergic to their product. Interviewers would look at her plain nails and snicker, and often write something about it. At the broadcasts she wore ‘‘falsies’”—false nails over her real nails. The falsies were polished, of course. . “I would wave my hands at the audience as though to say, ‘Do you see my nice nail polish?’ “But I was lying. For 26 weeks I was living a lie.” It takes two dressers and her own maid to help her get in and out of her enormous hoop skirts in “The King and 1.” Even today, she says, “If I shake hands with anybody freshly manicured I get a reaction.” The little English girl from the other side of the. tracks has plenty of cause to be proud of what she has accomplished on the stage. And, as though she is thankful about it, she generally closes her conversations with her friends, not with the usual “Goodby,” but with “Bless you.” Still, there are a few people, perhaps, who do not appreciate her or know about her. Recently she was phoning a friend, and a secretary said, “Who shall I say is calling?” “Gertrude Lawrence,” she said. “Gertrude Lawrence from where?” asked the secretary.

Bob Would Like To Be Ed Sovola

when you read a travel book. You paced the floor from irritation when you chafed at the shackles of your old home town. There will come a time of slight disillusionment when Eddie will learn that covering a blood-letting in Budapest is about like running a police beat in Indianapolis. He will learn some day that people are pretty much alike everywhere — kind, mean, generous, stingy, avaricious, cruel, shiftless, industrious, trustworthy and treacherous—and that *he world of his imagination roughly approximates Indianapolis. oN BUT SOMEWHERE in his future is his first sight of the sun shining on the snowy spires of Casablanca, his first appreciation of Paris in the spring, his first sampling of a winy Roman autumn, a London fog, a steamy bullfight afternoon ‘in Spain. No man first sees Gibraltar without a thrill, and the mystic lights of Tangier, viewed from a ship, herald all sorts of fascinating evil. In the young man's future is the delicate torture of wondering whether the piece you put on the cable or shipped off by the strange air mail is any good. You shoot your arrow into the air, and hope before the good Lord that the hard-headed editors won't mutter that the boy's gone nuts and order a recall. Once tasted, the fruits of foreign meandering are hard to spit out. Eddie has now entered into an endless battle; the conflict of the expense account. No editor, sitting at home, is sympathetic to the horrid lists of moneys expended which expatriate employees ship back. This hostility comes from pure envy, of course, but it is assumed that all vagrants from the home office are living in regal suites and serving champagne to the local Lily Langtry. In some wondrous cases this is true, but much too infrequent. a SB ED IS HEADED for some headaches and some heartaches and fresh frustrations, some lost copy and reprimands and lice in the bed and stomach trouble and difficulties with the customs and all sorts of catastrophes, but I repeat the lead. I would rather stand in his shoes than any other set of young man’s boots I know. It's nothing but personal jealousy, of course, because I did the same thing once, and will never be able to savor it the same way again.

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About People—

Impediment Sticks to Singer

Songstress Jane Froman, who union in Norfolk, Va., is 105, but has stuttered since she was 5, de- they don't agree on the key to

nies she has cured herself of the longevity.

speech impediment. U. D. TOWNSEND, Olla, La, birthday.

In Hollywood for the filming of |recommends “living a good life, her life Story, ee——me——mme—: learning about the Bible and across the streets,” Mrs. Robin-

marrying a good woman.” W. J. Son said.

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rode from Carmi, Ill, to Harris-! burg, Ill.—a distance of 32 miles | —by trai nyesterday on her 100th

“It was no worse than walking

The Wright Angle— Wallard Says He'll Be ‘Racingest’ Winner

| By ART WRIGHT The little guy, whom everyone in racing circles likes

'so well, said yesterday after he won the 500-Mile Race that he would be “racingest” winner of all times. | Lee Wallard was all smiles as he came into Victory Lane 'to be greeted by Loretta Young and other well-wishers who ‘apparently were just as happy as Lee about his victory.

first thing Lee said to| \ The l g | the race he had dreamed about this reporter when he came; tong

jit he Vietory Cage a Second place winner Mike NazTaney art, Jor your ep Ur aruk also had a surprise await{ing him at the end of the race.

| When Wallard came to the In-| 'dianapolis Speedway in 1948, an| His car owner, Jim Robbins, unknown in 500-Mile speed circles, Said he was going to build anothhe told this reporter that he was ef car for Nazaruk to drive in

952 i Jisgusied He sald he was going “"p hing told this reporter that

A He had decided not to try to he wanted to build a car similar

get a car to drive because after, 10 (De srengm of the Novi ens

| tries. He said he felt there were

several weeks of garage Cam-|i,, many 278 cubic-inch engines

paigning he had been turned down i, the race.

at every attempt. This year’s car was a 270 cubic | Reading Next inch Meyer-Drake engine. He

| wanted to build somethin - I had confidence in Wallard ferent. g dt

{because we had been friends in the East.

I stuck my neck way out oy I [ saying Wallard some day would

win the 500-Mile Race.

| Today was the Ay. . | | The grateful little guy said he 0 # [raigne will race next at Reading, Pa. jon a half-mile fairgrounds track

Sania On Drug Count | Lee has contracted with Sam

| Nunis, the outstanding promoter | Times State Service

|of automobile racing outside of | TERRE HAUTE, May 31 — A {the Indianapolis race. {27-year-old Terre Nay man ar- | Wallard said he wasn't tired rested by an FBI agent who because he was too happy to be. [posed as a marijuana addict was He said that he had been try-/scheduled to be arraigned today ing for this victory since his first on a charge of violating the fed-

chance in 1948. Then he set the eral narcotics act. speed world afire with his terrific! Police today continued ques-| | speed in the Iddings Special. That tioning Robert Lacy, who boasted was his first car in the 500-Mile. he could get “500 pounds of mari-| A big surprise greeted Wallard juana from Mexico” on advance! as he came into Victory Lane. !Murrel Belanger, owner of Wall- traffic lard's victory car, told the win- > ner that next year he would get) Rolling Machine Nabbed

a brand new car, much faster, “We believe we have gotten in

notice. Officials seek to learn his 1 e the extent of the alleged drug gave the victory kiss to her husband.

THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1951

THE CHAMP—Lee Wallard waves greasy-gloved hand and smiles the smile of victory as friends press close with congratulations.

wife, Mrs. Esther Wallard. "| kiss only my own husband," explained

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Georgia nerth of here, Mr. More row lost his expensive Rolleifiex camera overboard. Mr. Crosby's

first “fish” was a crab which he hooked when his line

than the mount he drove this on the ground floor,” Chief of Bush, Fitzgerald, Ga., advises year. {Detectives James A. Evelo said. Crosby Taken fora Bum,

‘keeping up with what's going on What Price Tradition? Belanger said he expected to Lacy was arrested yesterday and living in the South.” John Mrs. Janic: Maynard, bass- spend $20,000 building the new When he tried to sell the FBI Pi i a { | RK + R m bottom. Later, though ught Sallings, Yani, Va. claims he far singing president of the Washing- car for Wallard in 1952. (agent two pounds of the drug at us Oo e e uses 00 three cod. ? NER, 18. cp exceeded the allotted three-score- ton, D. C., chapter of “Sweet Ade-| Wallard didn't get kissed by $55 a pound. Additional quanti- y The lanned to motor back {ll and-10 by “not worrying about lines,” female barbershop quartet movie star Loretta Young, but ties of marijuana were found on| VANCOUVER. British Colum-| 3, Crosby and My. Morrow, “yr onywood today. ff | things, hard work and drinking group, says there are no girl bar- his wife, Esther, did. Miss Young Lacy, police said. A cigaret roll-\,,, “roy 31 _ Multi-millionaire apparently had forgotten all : ¢] good liquor.” ters among the 60 chapters na- kissed her excitedly while Lee ng machine and weighing scales . rer Bing Crosby was refused about the incident last night. r i aps sf. 4 tionally. was on his final lap and victory also were confiscated. a room at this city's swankiest They returned from a fishing trip, ize Gaming Tickets * 3 Kissless Bride i woul, we have some beau- was sure. The FBI agent said he arranged, .. because a clerk thought he and went to bed. A police vice squad led by 8§ ticians,” she pointed out. Almost Standing Up the sale with Lacy after trailing 0 2 “pum,” the hotel's red-| The hotel management Te Martin last night

him since he approached a filling dmitted toda ’ baseball Miss Young had said before the ftation operator last month ana! 180 eifclals ads ¥ ake ved luck” continued Set ans eal

stumbles on p's and q's while talking, but never slips while singing. Thou1S sands of sufferers have beseeched her for the “cure” she |F - was erroneously | FO. reported to have prise Froman Air Force Pfc. Raymond Ran-

found. dolph left Mobile, La., last night Bed Guaranteed

“It's p-p-pathetic,” Miss Froman for assignment in the Far East, : { | Mr. Crosby, wearing a leather) said. “I wish I could help but I leaving his 16-year-old bride in Marcus ' Garzonm, 21-year-old fags Sa Tied shal Ine would Jet Be im fo distribute saartjuana jacket, dungarees, cowboy boots yesterday. Fishing in the Gulf of tion at 404 Indiana Ave.

can't. Stuttering is not a phys- the hospital where they were mar- dishwasher, had a couple of), ii, o"pat honor go to the girl Authorities admitted today they and “no shave’ entered the lobby

fecal affliction but purely psycho- ried. . beers and decided he needed : were investigating a possible link of the Hotel Vancouver Monday Now You Knows ca logical and brought on by some- He and Patricia Edwina Webb S\€€P: So he crawled through a who had worried about the driver Were ah Stiga ne | is traffic night. He and Bill Morrow,

during the 500-Mile. thing personal, usually in child- said their vows while she was re- window into what turned out to operations in other cities writer and producer of Mr, Crosbe .the washroom in the Hay-| Lee came into Victory Lane OP€ j by’s radio show, had motored here Guess Whe Invented TV a from Idaho to do some fishing. | " tl | Y \ 4 a Will Solve Color—Red Style

Bo ast, Twist be treated on an cuperating from a major eye op- ward, Cal. police station and almost standing up in his car. It Seen Shielding Source . eration. Surgeons would not even started snoozing. When found, Was necessary for those in the let the bride raise her head for ,. was graduated to more perma- cage: to grab the car to stop it. lcy Said that ie Stove to his Received Icy Stare the traditional «iss. nent quarters while police in- posted didn't have any brakes , “AC drug, but authorities bo. “FIX me up with a couple of . vestigated. e lieved he was shiel the singles with baths, will ya boy,”| MES FE. inven Prof, Whose husband lowered the flag Two of a Kind ; 2 ding 2ource Tone TE ar a nL at Ft. Sumter at the start of the are, Harlene Kannmacher, res- The Big Squeeze WASHINGTON, May 31—The tained a patent on cathode tele

Wallard opened the top of his of his supply. Mr. Crosby was reported to have c coveralls and showed Wilbur The retail value of the amount asked night clerk Art Cameron. | ST Fone in the lead car tayrant waitress, yesterday was In Chicago, the heart of Eu- Shaw, president of the Speedway, confiscated yesterday is about, Mr. Cameron gave the singing Russians claimed today that they scopy in 1907. The a Memorial Day parade yester- presented with a ‘Waitress Cum gene Puntean, 65, stopped for how badly chapped his chest was. $1750. Each pound of marijuana star and companion an icy stare invented television and gave it t0 gaid this was “the beginnings

Over at Last Mrs. Caroline Eldridge Hamner,

day in Flint, Mich. |Laude” degree by the Chicago seven or eight minutes during Wallard’s wife, retiring but will make 1140 cigarets which sell and replied, “We are booked solid the people. \modern television.” £3 Ki Restaurant Association for “gen- an operation but was massaged happy, kissed Lee after he took for 50 cents each. |—for days.” In addition, the Russians say, “Television has received pa ng ror an Hour erally raising the educational back to life by the chief surgeon. & drink of water from Wilbur - Mr. Crosby and Mr. Morrow they are now “solving” the prob- ticularly wide scope under

When 12-year-old Bobby Pincus standards of those who serve the Mr. Puntean later said: visited an amusement park in public.” “They tell me I had time to every year to the race. New Jersey wearing a peaked cap, Mrs. Kannmacher, 40, will re- shake hands with St. Peter at ‘Hit With Mike he noticed hundreds of persons ceive a Bachelor .of Philosophy least twice.” : following him, “whispering and degree from Northwestern Uni- -— , Immediately afterwards, a radio announcer accidentally

pointing. It was an hour before versity next February. She com- al Fostive he found out everyone thought he pleted high school and went on Annual Festival smacked Mrs. Wallard on the lips

was Gen. Douglas MacArthur's the college beside her son, Bill, 1 ¢, valley Mills Friends with his microphone in all of the son, Arthur, who habitually wears because he challenged her to ac. <orch Will sponsor their annual excitement.

Shaw's silver water cup he takes |started outside to get into Mr. lems of color television, Red style. Soviet regime,” the Moscow Pp Crowd Sweats It |Crosby’s convertible when Ray The latest Russian claims were dio te ’ Fn

. |Morrison, a bellhop, recognized broadcast over Radio Moscow's, The Encyclopedia Brittasies Out With Duke |

Der Bingle.” ‘home service—the one that goes and Television Encyclopedis, & The ood natured crowd Mr. Morrison quickly fixed the to the Soviet peoples rather than standard work by Stanley howed 8 t Ari situation. They were escorted to foreigners. ner, say the basis for telev showed great concern during .j,qn twin suites on the seventh “That's just bunk,” snapped one was laid in 1884 when Paul Duké Nalon's long pit stop early q.,r radio official here. “The father kow, a German, invented a Sach Sronacr hein an a the vee. both. sides oF the! Mr. Cameron said he had no of TV was a German, America forated disc to scan pictures. a peaked h | 3 Strawberry n Festiva atur- ; 'TOWAS idea who Mr. Crosby and Mr. as more TV transmitters an “But we have : pe cap \company him to school. day beginning at 6 p. m. Attrac- op smacked and with {rack chanted “Come on, Duke,” Morrow were. ! receivers than Russia—and, un- Ren T™V p to aqmit fhat (44 Got Her Wish tions will include an auction, fish. dirty, Jase. re io gracious ag mechanics worked feverishly «I thought they were a couple fortunately, we have not one but bad,” said one |pond, movies and refreshments, 30Out the whole thing. to get his car back in the race. of bums or Indians from up two color systems.” onthe Soviet telecasts. “At They let out a huge cheer when north,” he said. “It was all a The Soviet broadcast quoted a Russian TV owners get to

matters is that Lee anally won the Duke finally got underway. mistake.” ‘ {speech by a Prof. Shmak, who all the latest movies.” ; ay . * e ich ry bg,

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