The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20
By Jack Lait
DOTS AND DAsHEs

By Ja
 DOTS AND DASHES
 Fancy the emotions today of one lovely lady in Washington, as she sits perhaps, and reviews some of Ger life and what might have been .. She is now the wife of band leader whom she married after she had divorced Lionel Atwill, stage end picture actor. Her first huS- band, a young Baltimore society man, she divorced when she was very young The next she cast off was a youthful general named Douglas Macarthur.
 The lady was born Louise Crom- well, a sister of Jimmy Cromwell, who is still in a way the husband of Doris Duke . '. It was my good fortune to get scoop, about 20 years ago, on the forthcoming mar riage of Louise Cromwell Brooks and Brigadier General Douglas MacAr- thur. There was considerably more 2 to it than the happy romantic plans of the daughter of the societlly su- perior and then tremendously wealthy Mrs Ned StoteSbury, of Philadelphia and Palm Beach, whose husband was Morgan and Drexel partner.
 The head of the Army then was General John J. Pershing, widower. Louise Brooks had on frequent oc- casionS been the hostess at General Pershing's receptoins and other for nal functions. It was broadly inti- mated that she would become Mrs. Pershing, despite the disparity in their ages . But two daShing younger officers courted her .. One was Major Quackenbush, cap- tain of the Army polo team; the second was MacArthur Mac Arthur won her.
 Whether or not General Pershing was displeased, both MacArthur and Quackenbush were given assign ments far from the glitter and gIamor of Washington, the peace time military paradise Mac WkU11 414So b4 AOC, ny SA44IAoA departmental orders, went to the Philippines From the same source which gave me the first inc formation that she was to marry the handsome young general who had commanded the Rainbow Divi- sion in France, I later learned that Ehe was bored and unhappy in the Pacific islands, where there were comparatively few Americans, where life was so different from the gaiety she had known in New York. Bal timore, Washington and Philadel- phia.
 An indication of the scale of life tu which she was accustomed came Go me in another story l learned that Mrs. Stotesbury was closing her mansion near Philadel- phia, on an estate so huge that she had a private railroad running between the gates and the house
 The account, as I got 1t and published it, was to the effect that Mrs. StoteSbury was shuttering that dwelling and had discharged her servants A few days later, I got \ letter on the embossed stationery of law firm with five or six names, stating: "It is true that Mrs. Stotes- bury has closed the home you men, tioned. but the inference is not true that she has dismissed all her ser wants. She has dismissed only 165 of the servants"
 Despite this background, one may yentude a guess that this lady or any other lady would not suffer tco deeply of ennui today as Mrs. Douglas MacArthur-in the Philip pines!
 Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, in deep mourning, visits Doctors Hospital several times week to see her friend, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, Jr. She usually comes by bus A few doors down the hall, in the same hospital, is Mrs. Charles Lindbergh, expecting her baby :. For the first time. the broadcasting rights to the Army-Nayy and rmy-Notre Dame games have been sold. A national weekly has the exclusive, and Bill Stern has been signed to report the Navy game in Philadelphia and the contest with the Irish in New York "A. Elaine Barrie, one of the later wives of the late John Barrymore, is spending the Summer in nearby Connecticut and coming to town freuuently to peddle for publication \ hook she has finished, which IS aimed to answer Gene Fowler's a(jood Night, Sweet Prince"
 Bob Hope is winging westward across the Atlantic as these lines are being written. The landing of the big ship at LaGuardia Field will mark the 250th mile Hope has flown ir his mission of entertaining ser vicemen in the combat zones. He has just finished his sixth over seas tour, having covered Africa, italy. England, Ireland, France, Ger many, Alaska, the AleutianS the South Pacific and Caribbean. His nsysicians forbade him to go to the China a-Burma-India fronts for fear Of the climate there, after he col- lapsed last Christmas morning |. He has spent most of his time since September, l940, working to uni- formed men here and abroad, rais- ing funds for the Red Cross and selling bonds.
 Thousands of actors have made sacrifices and given of their time and efforts, suffered teremendous Inconvenience and danger: some lost their limbs. one lost her life
 But no entertainer has come anywhere near matching the per- slstent continuity of Hopes contri- hutlons Since the beginning Of fhe War. he has never done one of his paid broadcasts from 6 studio but every one from a military camp X. within the last two years ne turned down more than si.O00,. 0f)0 ln motion picture income and