The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-19
What They're Whispering in Gotham
BY norothx klIaallsn


BY Dorothy kllssllen
Caifornians are begging Clark
Gable 10 run for Congress on the
Republican ticket. One OF the
Metropolitan Opera bigwigs is try
ing TO sell the dowagers who run
the menagerie the idea OF sending
the entire troop overseas next year
under USO sponsorship. The FL
lott C'Last Time | Saw Paris
Pauls have Reno in the bean-o.
Jack Topping is forgetting Jane
Randolph with Margot Halter.
The Ed ("Archie") Gardner baby
is seriously Ill. Doctors are hope
full that blood transfusions given
him by his comedian dad will car
~ the infant out OF danger
They say Leo Durocher's heart
throb las We go to press is sup
posed 10 be a Hollywood lass
named Nan Bannett.
Nick Holde, manager OF lone
Touch OF Venus. and Sono Osato
who leaves that show shortly, are
Shubert Alleys No. l feud A
deal has been completed for
New York version OF Hollywood's
Palladium. Fellow named Maui
rice Cohen is the entrepreneur.
Elaine Barrie Barrymore has
new reason for swooning. A
wealthy sugar king from the West
-. One OF the prettier "Follies"
chorines made a killing at the
track one afternoon last week-and
didn't show up for the next few
performances. Brenda Frazier
and "Shipwreck" Kelly, en- route
to Rio de Janeiro, may make a
surprise announcement from there
-. Sonia Henie will become a red
head for her next film... Jennifer
Jones' ex, Robert Walker, has gift
ed Jimmy Garland (Judy's sister
with q huge topaz ring.
linda Darnell and her Pew Mar.
ley have their intimates wonder
ing. :. Night club business is boom
ing again. The new Gertrude
Lawrence play, "Errand for Ber-
nice" will be a three-actor Job.
divorces in the gayer society set
will make page one news II they
come of as scheduled and pave
the way for a headline wedding.
One couple is composed OF New
York playboy (who spends a lot OF
time on the COAST and his very
young bride. The other, a multi
millionairess and her glamorous
groom. After the divorces, the
playboy will marry the multimil-
lionairess =. The cast OF Helen
Goes to Troy" has discovered a
horse named Offenbach. The kids
back him in every race. Surpris-
ing Broadway duet: Herb Fields
and Cynthia Cavanaugh.
TOPS IN TOWN: Bob Hopes
book. Il Never Left Home, out
today. o.. Dick Byron's baritoning
over CHS nightly. The Xavier
Cugat musical sequence in Two
| Girls and a Sailor" 80. Duke Filing
toms recording OF do Nothin' TIL
You Hear from Me-. Tamara
Toumanova in Days of Glory" 49,.
Patsy CARROTS vocals on Broad
way Matinee, the airshow.
! Quite an accident in front OF the
! Broadhurst the other afternoon.
J A truck knocked down the scat
folding holding up two sign men
who we're putting up the Take a
Bow marquee billboards 49,. Hal
! Blocks new song has an intrigu-
ing title: THE USA By Day and
the Raj By Night" -. lntimates
say Stanton Grifiis will draw the
post Of ambassador to England II
/ the Republicans win the 1874 presi-
/ Dental elections. Dorothy La
mour and her husband, William
Ross Howard. would like TO adopt
n baby. Steve Cranes slave
bracelet is a present from Betty
Hutton. Albert Bayne, the young
radio actor who makes his first
Broadway appearance in Gather
inec Was Great. the Mae West
opus. is DelnS pageu ny Two MIN
companies even before he steps
into the spotlight.
viii Rogers daughter Mary Is
having her time taken up by a
hollywood fellow named Tommy
/ Curtrer. The newest hurlesque
heroine is a fheavens aliyeD jit-
! terbug stripper called Pepsi (Hits
the Spot) Morgan. Bobby-soX-
ers are now tying bow ties around
their noggins. Marlene Dietrich
may remain in England after her
/ CSO tour to do Noel Coward
show 49,. 1t. True Davis IS long
dstancing from San Francisco TO
Choo Choo Johnson in Manhattan
49,. Switch on the old story: June
Morgan. the very pretty blonde cl-