The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-27
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DOROTHY KILGALLEN

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You Meet Such
Interesting People.
land It's the Little Things That
Leave You LIMP
Since becoming a mother. Mar
tina Raye has developed a definite
thrift complex and a great interest
In future security. II anyone
should happen to pick up the check
when she and husband Nick Con-
dos are out night-clubbing, Martha
Instead OF putting up a stiff fight
for the tab-will serenely say.
"Thanf you, thank you for the Lit
tie ONE. Faye Emerson Roose-
Welt still cherishes a note sent TO
her by Bette Davis when Faye I'm
ished her first picture on the Warn
er lot-and long before her mar
rage to the late Presidents son.
In the note. Bette invited the new
conner to her dressing room for q
chat. and mentioned how. impress
ed she was with Faye's talent in
her screen debut. :. Marlene Diet
rich is veritable dynamo of q
short-order correspondent. In cafes,
she passes hurriedly scrubbed
notes to people at her own table
and friends at neighboring ones,
too. And she adores getting answ-
ers-particularly II they're gagged
up. You'll usually notice a NINA
ture writing pad by her hand unless
the floor show or the soup Is on.
Groucho Marx goes those moth.
er and daughter" matchmate outfits
one better-his two young daugn.
tiers wear suits with sports jackets
exactly like his. One day. exiting
from Fifth Ave. style emporium.
the younger OF Groucho's offspring
studied her sister and dad and
CALCULATED: Gosh, we look pust
like the Ritz Brothers.. Lynn
Gilmore the glamorous blond res.
taurateur, isn't impressed about
having an expensively lush eatery
named after her. but she swoons
at the idea OF having q racehorse
for namesake. Lynn loves our
feet four-footed friends so devoted
ly she'd rather Guido Liz Whitney's
stable than the Colony's table. and
devotees OF the turf consider her
the outstanding distaY authority
on the galloping gees. Danny
Kaye tells people he thinks ne
and G eer Carson look alike. and
do you snow. II you really want to
stretch a point there is some re-
semblance, ridiculously enough.
The Wesson Brothers spend their
spare moments imparting the intri.
caciee of Judo to all the pretty
chorines about town. (Nlce work, II
you can handle IT, Dick and Gene
are experts at this devastating art
and work out with Jimmy Cagney.
also er accomplished hold-twist-
toss disciple. every time he is In
New York or they are in Hollywood
-. Peggy Hopkins Joyce is exceed.
ingly fussy about where she sits
in any OF the cafes she frequents
regularly. II she can't get the
specific table she considers hers,
she went play. In fact, she won't
even stay. Dick Flanagan. the
Monte Carlos major domo, mulled
the idea In his mind for quite n
while but eventually rejected =
piquant suggestion by an interna-
tional glamour girl. She thought
he ought to install table-to-table
telepf ones, similar to those at
celebrated pre-war European cafe
the idea being that the tables
would be numbered. and II you saw
some me you didn't know but would
like to you just asked the restau-
rant operator to connect you with
Table Number Such-and- Such. Dick
felt the complications resulting
therefrom would almost certainly
outweigh the fun.
.
II you want to know who the
Fuller Brush Man really Is, Just
ask John Powers. He'll have to
admit that the smiling gent holding
the brush on those display cards
Is his erstwhile model Harry Con-
over. Being a graduate OF the
Nelson knows his William Black
stone as well as his Irving Berlin,
and acts as legal adviser to the
Mrs. Harriet Hilliard and other
members of his troupe. E. Noah
Beery has an ice cream soda In
the store next to the Capitol every
night before he goes to make IN for
In L.
Carlisle rehearses all her roles in
the bathtub.. =. when Kelley Allen
wants to talk to someone on the
phone, HI sends a postcard asking
the character to call him. E. Walter
Florell can outsparkle Mrs. George
Washington Kavanaugh when II
comes to diamonds-he has a col.
lection OF rings, cufflinks and tie
pins with gems SO colossal it's hard
to believe they're genuine, although
they are. At the Club London open
ing he outshone every lass In the
place. (Hate him, don't your
Gregory Peck probably can out
shout anyone In the cinema town
(although he doesn't really have to
do more than whisper!) because
he made his first professional ap.
pearance as a N. Y. Worlds Fair
barker. Director Alfred Hitchcock
commissioned Greg to shout
Quiet" on the "Spellbound" set
whenever shooting was to start,
and Mr.. Peck would leave every
body "Yellbound" with one mighty
tremolo from the tonsils... Ben
Carter, the Zanzibar comedian, has