The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-03-31
By Dorothy kllaallsn

| Manhattan Glitter. PICTURESQUE
Dorothy Parker bursting into tears
at 81 during luncheon with John
O'Hara... Barbara Bannister
checking milk-trimmed galoshes at
Leon a Eddie's... Kay Francis
| sending George OF the Colony to
get a tissue from her coat pocket to
wipe her famous nose. Guy Kib-
bee birthday partying his missus
at Monte Carlo. Prince" Mike
Romanoff dashiug out OF Armando's
to buy Anne Francine a bottle Of
scent. Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker
lodging a puddle on 47th St..
Joan Davis and Jack Haley. cele-
hrity.faces among the barsitters at
Leone's -. June Clyde and Louise
Albriton at Schraffts. making up
for the calories they missed over
seas Margaret Sullivan, in royal
purple. examining tidbits at Bon
Wits. Morton Downey checking
his burberry at the Burberry.
This Was the Week in Which.
The erik niZed House of Paris"
Jennifer Jones proved she's a full
edged Hollywood actress by divorc.
ing her husband e. The bands play
ed Suddenly It's Spring" but the
snow came and suddenly II wasn't
go. King Peter waltzed down the
aisle with a brunette. . Benny
Goodman said he'd have to break
up his band on account of the draft
and Raymond Massey became a citi-
zen. Nicaragua flashed an item
that it had some brand new sex
tupletes even before The Miracle
OF Morgans Creek" played there
... The Lonergan and Chaplin
cases fought for page one space
Major Jimmy Stewart shuttled
back and forth to Berlin in the
greatest starring role of his career,
Times Square Cuff Notes: The
STAFF at Memorial Hospital would
have you believe that Myrna 10y
is a patient there. although the
wire services announced her ar
rival in Hollywood this week. -.
William FLYERS Army documentary
film, Memphis Belle 1.-THE story
of bomber's mission to Germany
win knock the town on its ear.
Besides singing and gaging. Merl-
enc Dietrich will play musical
saw in her USO overseas act.
Frank Parker, who gave his notice
in Follow the Girls. and then
took 1t back, tells intimates he still
may quit the hit before it comes
to Broadway 80. A bill Is being
drawn up in Washington to honor
Irving Berlin with the Congress
sional Medal of Honor. Joyce
Matthews Berle has bowed out of
the Allah Be Praised" cast.
Choo Choo Johnson looks 5000 diff
ferent because she's wearing a
new flat-top hairdo. ct must have
required two small. strong boys to
take down that gargantuan pompa-
dourD
Fable from the Ffties: No sub
ject holds more fascination for the
theatrical gentry than that Of
luChy DItdho anu inc way pcO-
Pile get them. The other night at
the Stork Club Wynn Rocamora,
the actors agent, and Vincent Lo-
PEI. the maestro-numerologist,
we're indulging in small talk about
just that sort OF thing. Would Bet
| ty Hutton ever have found a
springboard to stardom II the Lopez
band hadn't conducted an amateur
contest in her home town.. II
Rudy Vallee had never crossed
Alice Faye's path would the story
Of her life be very different now7
Then Rocamora told a story. He
was sitting in his Hollywood office
one afternoon. he said, and his sec
rotary came in to announce that 4
young lady was in the reception
room asking to see him. II sound
ed like the kind of thing that gets
polite brushOn in hundreds OF
Hollywood offices thousands OF
times a day: she had no appoint