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It Happened Last Night
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NEW YORK, June 21—Rita Hayworth’ up golf and probably the first Bote, she'll Ske make, says Eddie Davis at Leon & Eddie's, will be in Aly Khan's pocket. : HOT DASHES i : Frank Costello, the aristocrat, Sought 3, Sus oy poodle, the son of Masterpiece, e grand champion, for whic the gia h Aly Khan offered Ingrid Bergman's son Robertino is a golden blond. Gypsy Rose Lee, husband Julio de Diego and . son Erik will fly the Atlantic in Army bucketseaters next month so Gyp can entertain GIs. Rita Hayworth now hopes for one million, instead of three. Eddie Cantor, returning to Hollywood, under goes an operation. ? “bb * DAGMAR'S HUSBAND, Danny Dayton, now puffs a very tiny pipe. “I smoke this,” he said, with a glance at his shapely wife, “because it makes Dag look bigger.” “I don't think we need it, Dagmar.
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JUDY GARLAND doesn’t mind being called overweight by the audiences in the British Isles. She stops the criticism before it starts by coming on stage, sitting down, and taking her shoes off. “I'm worn out,” she says, “carrying all this weight around ,.."” SPW MILTON BERLE, Joe DiMaggio, W. Winchell and Gentleman Georgie Solotaire got a weeé bit talkative during Luba Malina’'s Copacabana opening. Writer Eli Basse, author of Miss Malina's songs, could hardly hear them from the table where He sat, just in back of the big party. So he told them: “I am enjoying your table immensely.”
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COMIC JOE E. LEWIS is looking for a new kind of western film actor—one that’s smarter than his horse. © @ @
MULTIMILLIONAIRE Eddie Luckenback; now a Lt. JG, on leave from Singapore, was in Leon & Eddie's hunting for his onetime beloved, stripteaster Sherry Britton.
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, June 21—It may be the tension of the times, or a growing surliness on my part. but it seems to me that people are ruder today than they used to be befo’ de wah. Mama raised me up gentle-like, and my sensitive nature is sometimes appalled by the gratuitous hatred that is circulated for . very little reason. I believe firmly in saying, “yes, sir” and “yes, ma'am,” to people older than you are, and the preface of a “please” or the end piece of a “thank you” never damaged a larynx beyond repair. But what you seem to reap today is mostly a snarl or at least curtness. The quality of rudeness is not strained, and from frequent subjection to same it is occasionally necessary to employ it as a defense. This can apply to nations as well ag men. I suspect it is time we got a touch ruder in our reaction to rudeness abroad, if only to teach politeness. This cheek-turning business works fine in theory but does not seem to pay off practically at the moment,
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AFTER YEARS of turning away wrath with the soft answer, I have concluded that you got to kick and scream some to be heard in a world of kickers and screamers. The soft answer goes unheard; there is nothing so noticeable as a bang on the shins or a knee in the stomach, It is difficult to say where rudeness starts. It could be from a bunion of the soul, due to dissatisfaction with a personal or international lot. It could be from a lack of gentle instruction while young, as in the case of the Russians and some people from Brooklyn. But the soft answer is no answer. The rude ones just get ruder, and the chronically mean ones become meaner. “5 H ONE THING I learn from contact with unpleasantness is that the one who originates if
About People—
Girl Singer Bows
Singer Evelyn Knight is winding up her first—and last—night club tour because she refuses to compete ‘with
“saloon tipplers” and $6 steaks. “It's too tough on your voice,” the blonde beauty shrugged today in. Hollywood. “And so is all that smoke.” Miss Knight, who likes to sing in cozy, intimate rooms “where people . stop chewing Biss Euight and listen you,” said in most big spots it was like trying to build up a mood in Grand Central Station, especially when a customer who'd one too many started trouble in the middle of a ballad.
Replete With Rue
George Pratt, 41-year-old truck driver, proudly accepted a safedriving medal in Milwaukee last night and drank some beer to celebrate. Then the roof fell in. He smashed his car into a telephone pole. When le left the car to call police, two men grabbed him and took his medal and $10. Police arrived and jugged him for drunken driving, and the judge gave him 10 days and a $75 fine,
KICKED, SHE SAYS—Pep-
per sues for divorce.
Earl Takes a Look At This °n’ That
Swifty Morgan, the supposedly “poor” tie peddler, is going into Mayo Clinie. . . . Joan Crawford told her guests at the Pen & Pencil party that they weren't expected to perform but Ethel Merman insisted. ¥ 4 eS 9 B'WAY BULLETINS: Mary Martin's son, Larry, 19, is new ass’t stage mgr. for the Music Circus in Lambertville, N. J. . . . Midnitem: Victor Jory and Joan Diener. . . . Cops around the spots mentioned in the dope revelations make it impossible to loiter there now. , . . Sally Benson became
a grandmother again just in time for the opening
of “Seventeen,” which she adapted ... Henry Youngman sees houses advertised as “15 minutes from 42d St.” He says the only place 15 minutes from 42d St. in these days of tough‘ traffic is 43d St. ood ob GOOD RUMOR MAN: The Charles Addamses are apart, . . . Chicago's dope traffic is said to be even worse. . . . The Earl of Dalkeith (Princess Margaret's escort) was at La Vie En Rose with Maureen Cannon... . Joe DiMaggio and 8 brothers and sisters arrived at his mother’s bedside. Joe Jr. and Joe's ex-and-next Dorothy, just arrived in New York; didn’t go back with him. .,. Armanda Sullivan, opening at Cafe Society, is tagged the year’s comedy find. . , . Henny Youngman and GloMa De Haven go into the Atlantic Oity Steel Pier Sunday. . . . Herb Dexter calls Eddie Cantor and his wife “The King and Ida.” oe oe oo EARL'S PEARLS . . Carol Channing always tickles us in “G, Prefer Blondes’ when she says, “I was “MM going to pay it back with my own borrowed money!” Qe <> oo THE OLD EARL: Faye Emerson bought a sensationally beautiful new white mink stole last week. Next day she had to fly to her home town (San ; Diego) on a business trip . . . We found out why her husband (a Halstead, Minn, boy) is called Skitch. Because his name is Lyle Cedric . . . Gen. MacArthur's declining crowd-appeal can be explained by any actor, to wit, “He didn't know when to get off” . . . Maurice Turet tells us about a Texan who found a stowaway in his hat. FOR ALY KHAN, Joan Fontaine may be— says Harry Redler—‘“the Fontaine of Youth” That's Earl, brother.
Carol Channing
Being Polite Doesn't Pay Off Anymore
is more apt to fold under pressure than the one | who returns it in kind. This we've learned slightly | from our past association with the Soviets. If | you hold still and take it sitting they come back | with more of the same. Whack back and they | fold up. | I've had a couple of experiences "with the return of rudeness lately that made me think a | lot. A man with a cigar in his face stole a parking space from me, after I'd waited patiently 7 for at least 10 minutes. He was real brave about the whole thing until, accidentally, the cigar got shoved rather more deeply into his mouth than he relished. It seemed so silly to die over such a small matter as a parking space. Or even to be involved in a fist fight which you might not win. And the clothes get so rumpled and dirty that way.
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AT THE BALL PARKS you will find foulmouthed fellows sitting in your seat. You ask them to move’ and they say, aw, drop dead. A gentle pressure on the ears, with both hands, often succeeds in removing them from the seat without recourse to the gendarmerie, and they very seldom strike back. 4 ’ : Concerning our international licy of tipping our friends across the seas wi huge moneys, there is a parable in the handling of taxi drivers. When you fling a man a sizable tip, you leave the taxi door open. If he says thank you, then you close the door. . Otherwise, you leave the door open and he is forced to get out. walk around and close his own door. He may be arrested for obstructing traffic; he may even be hit by another cab. : I seem overfull of sermons, maybe, but I am weary of having good returned with evil, politeness with rudeness, kindness with ingratitude— both as an individual and as a part of the cosmos. Let em be polite, consarn it, or up go the dukes. | Bernie Baruch knocked out a cab driver when he was 68 for an act of unwarranted insult, I recall, and the same treatment can be recommended for the unruly world.
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Tit for Tat
Because he had paid taxes on] half the str8et alongside his home
terday drove nine stakes into his half and made Lynn St. the only one - way street in Waterford, Mich. Perplexed officials said they weren't sure but what Mr. Minchoff had a right to stake off his half. The only concession he has
warn motorists.
Why, Hedy!
Among $1 million of Hedy Lamarr’s personal effects scheduled to go on the auctioneer’s block today in Hollywood were a pair of foam rubber “falsies” sewn into an evening gown, and a book inscribed “To Beauty, From Her Beast.”
Temporary Marriage Sixty-year-old Le Cameron]
Trent and his British bride, the! former Olga Rosenbrier, 31, were married in Elkton, Md. yester-
day, but are to be chaperoned to
millionaire manufacturer, charg- mony was only “temporary.” ing she was beaten and kicked, Pepper. once was named a cor- vows at a church wedding in respondent when Mr. Borin was Loveland soon, ’
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"THURSDAY, JUNE 21; 1951
Stars to Shine Under the Stars—
‘Song Of Norway’ In Rehearsal
LEADING PAIR—Mr. Clary and Peggy Engel, who will play the romantic feminine lead, chuckle at each other while rummaging backstage in a costume trunk.
BALLERINAS—Lynn Catterton (left) and Alice Smith are two
Loveland, O. because the cere-| of the local ballet troupe, directed by Marguerite de Anguera, who
will brighten "Song of Norway" and the other operettas.
- Thanks for Memory
In Spokane, Wash.,, Mrs. R. H. Williams forgot her purse as she started on a shopping trip. When she returned after it, she found her house afire, Firemen quickly snuffed the blaze.
‘Poked in Nose’
In Huron; 8. D., farmer Walter Lang, 200-pound six-footer, was under orders to pay $500 damages to school superintendent Walter Vorholt, 140 pounds, for poking him in the nose because Mr. Vorholt disciplined Mr. Lang's son. The farmer denied the punth, sayin te I had, he would have stayed
" unconscious for.a long time.”
Pepper Burns
In Chicago, 23-year-old Pepper Donna Borin -- shapely Miss Miami Beach of 1947—sued for divorce from Nathan Borin, 57,
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sued for divorce by his previous wife, Claire, the other half of the original “battlin’ Borins.” Nathan and Claire gained the nickname during 14 years of court fights, ending in 1948,
Off Two Weeks
While on his way in Des Moines,
Ia. to watch a pardde featuring,
film star Gene Autry, Lenoard Harman, 62, fell off his horsedrawn wagon at an intersection and was charged with intoxication.
. - Sight Regained Seven - year -old Becky MeMichael, blind since the age of 3, had at least half an eye's sight today in New Orleans following a rare operation for transplanting a cornea. Although surgeons would say only that “the patient is doing nicely,” Mrs. Kenneth McMichael,
Becky's mother, was yfubiiant
Mr, Trent won his wife by writing a letter to England saying he wanted to marry a British girl because he believed them less pampered than Americans. After a Winchester paper published the letter, he received 82 replies from girls in England, Greece, Japan and Singapore.
Order Autopsy on. Bgdy Of Boy Found in River
MERRICK, N. Y., June 21 (UP) —An autopsy was ordered today to check the possibility of violence in the death of 8-year-old Robert Richartz whose body was found floating in a nearby river. Discovery of the body yesterday climaxed a 4-day search by more than 5000 volunteers in-
cluding police, soldiers and civilians.
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Torrid Wigwarms—
By JAY BREEN United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, June 21 (UP)— If you know an out-of-work Indilan maiden, Princess Running Rabbit asked today that you spread the word she’s needed on| Broadway. ° “Indian men, too,” she said, “but especially pretty Indian girls. The television and show producers call me all the time.... They're anxious to have a genuine American in the line.” The Princess was once a noted dancer on the Main Stem. But that was many many moons ago. “I guess I was the first Indian strip .teaser,” she sald. “I was doing a Navajo-type peel act before World War I broke out. I
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because producers kept making me change my nationality.” One week Princess Running Rabbit sajd she would be billed as Amira, Queen of the Egyptians
and would sway to the tune of
reed pipes. The following week she'd have to pose as an Hawaiian undulater, then a Siamese temple
dancer, Burned Up
“That kept up for years,” she sald, “until I finally put my foot down and insisted on being my|self.” The most electrifying dance
with her lying in a coffin. “The lid would flop down and then the whole thing would ap-
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—Times Phliotos by Lloyd B. Walton BRIEFING—Tom Bate (standing, right), stage manager for producer Charles Hedley's 1951 | Starlight Musicals company, gives pointers to Charles Dosch, Doris Patiton, Vernon Roth, Charles | Aschmann and Patti Browne of the "Song of Norway" cast. The company yesterday donned costumes and began learning distances on the almost-complete stage at the Fair Grounds. Norway," musical based on the life of Norwegian composer Grieg, starts next Tuesday.
"Song of
NEW LOOK—From way up in the cheaper seats, Photographer Walton snapped this shot which gives a good idea of the improved stage setup. New construction has brought the show some 30 feet and sight will be better. \
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said, “I'd like to see those modern pale faces work up a finish like hat.” The Princess said that then, and now, entirely too many producers seemed to think that males were the only indians who ever kicked up their heels. The old traditional war dances were responsible for this misconception. “My own tribe, the Rhode Island Narragansetts, had ceremonial happiness dances which featured girls,” she said. “One of those productions would bring down the wigwam If it were staged in a theater, even today.” There are enough veterans on Broadway who remember. how these dances went, but the Princess said there just aren't any girls to instruct.
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NO GO—Miss Browne, who
ess in the operetta, smiles a futile vamping smile at Indianapolis born Wilton Clary, who plays hero Grieg. " breeze at the Fair Grounds, a constant peril to sunbonnets a hoopskirts, the comedy of situations was unexpectedly heightened,
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Red Gals Needed for Hot Shows, Indian Maid Says
“The result is Broadway has to use white girls in an imitation of the real thing,” she said.
The Princess retired her Narragansett * strip number some years ago and now is featured as a fortune teller at the Little Gypsy, a Hungarian restaurant off Times Square.
“It's a living,” she said, “but I often get the urge to kick up a commotion in here. For one night, I'd like to trade that Viennese fiddle player for a real Cheyenne tom-tom man.” She sald there are a lot. of Indians in show business, but most stick to carnivals and shun Manhattan, ie “They claim they were the first to say Manhattan's -nice to visit but no place to live,” she
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