The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-25
What They're Whispering in Gotham

Let's hope that not too many
hitherto untarnished regulations
suffer through random connections
with the Lonergan case. but indi-
cations are that cafe society's al.
ready darkened eye will be black,
indeed, W the time the last court
room bombshell has exploded. Al
though Donergan and his heiress
wife were never prominent enough
In the glitter set to figure in col
ume items and thereby become IA
miliar to the reading public they
seem to have moved around a good
deal, and the names on their list
OF acquaintance are startlingly
famous. | shouldn't be surprised
II much of the testimony were
given in closed court, or read into
the record but not released for
publication. Don't tell me that
the furry OF marriages and. di-
vorces and remarriages in the
amusement world is due to war
hysteria-but how do you account
for the seemingly new high for
matrimonial fickleness? I'm
wondering a little II a Valentine
for a soldier is such a good idea.
after all Seems TO me it might
Just serve to remind G. 7. Joe that.
even though he's got girl there's
nothing he can do about il.
Billy Roses plans for his first
Ziegfeld Theater production. The
Seven Lively Arts, sound no more
ambitious than might have been ex-
pected from The Man Who Made
an Oomph Girl Out of Carmen.
There's very little left for Bill
Rose to Guido but Billy Rose. 49,.
As.if-you.couldn't-guess-it Item:
Several men in uniform who have
served in the Army with Jimmy
Stewart tell me he's just as like
able and regular" as a soldier as
you'd imagine from his film person
atty. What the significance OF
this is haven't decided. but a
citizen who watched Howard Da-
Silva, "Oklahoma's villain, Jud.
move into a new apartment, re-
ports that the first two items to
enter the abode were a bassinet
and bowl OF goldfish! -. Every
where you look you see reminders
OF the Fourth War Bond drive,
some conservative. some rib-tickl-
ing. Backstage at Early to Bed,
a wag tackled up this suggestion:
You can help win the war bet
ter than you think II you accept
War Bonds instead of milk!
Sometimes | think Frank Sina-
ira serves the radio right. mean.
as far as the studio audiences go.
Anyone who's ever attended a
broadcast knows how regimented
the spectators become. think
most studios have discarded the
old business of holding up signs
reading Silence. Laughter" and
Applause" but even so. you an
plaud when you're told, you laugh
when you're told and you're breath
lessly quiet when you're told. But
T. lldlabto "
disorganize the studio audience 70
a point that no radio producer
ever dreamed OF in his widest
nightmares. The slur of a note. the
pose OF a shoulder, is enough to
make his admirers bay like ban
shoes at an Old Country wake.
know some people in the listening
audience resent II. but don't
Half the fun OF a Sinatra broad
cast for me is listening to the I'M
restrained howl OF the gooney-
girls . And. speaking OF frankie.
as everyone is these days, what
about the new Wednesday night
program? His singing is a fun
ny and ingratiating little man, but
-oy!-who writes their material?
It's enough to curl your loud
speaker.
One OF the few glamor girls in
town brave enough to risk critl-
cism because she thinks she has
the right idea is Barbara Bannis-
ter, the heiress-actress. Barbara
still clings to the foor-length co.
pre-war) type OF dinner dress and