The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04
Broadway
By JACK LAIT

taking Instruction now. Elaine Vito. charm
ing blonde harpist with Lloyd Skaters or
chestra, secretly married to George Ricci
B studio orchestra c%ellist. Pat Miles
says she doesn't even know Don De Leo.
She has definite Interests elsewhere. And he,
CooPs hot canary. Louis Siler in a tempest
over 10th Fox's Gerri Gale Allister Mac
1ntosh, equerry to Eddie Windsor when he
was prince, likes Eileen Herrick (the Juliet
who was wed to Romeo George Lowther). -.
Fletcher Godfrey and Peulette Bragg, both
5000 social, both together Louis Cal
hern and Natalie Schaefer, though their di-
vorce IS final, are laughing at the Judge.
Stork Club: Into the Valley Of Debt rode
the 400."
Arrogant German scientists, brought over
here to carry on with their work, interrupted
by certain events over which they had no
control, shrug their shoulders, make with their
hands. say ach, their calculations are on such
a high scale that the backward American col
leagues can't understand them d. The heinie
test-piloI imported to try out the jet-propelled
Me-262 says the Fatnerland's aircraft were
far superior to the crude American planes.
Who won the war?
Bob Hannegan wants Donald Nelson as the
replacement for Gen. Gregory to boss the
War Assets Adm. . A Canadian legislator
told friends here that Ills country can now
construct and use atom bombs without techni-
cal aid from below. Commercial airlines,
employing $4,000 now, are still understaffed.
. . Rep. John Sparktnan favored to succeed
the late Sen. John Banklead in Ala. . John
L. Lewis will barge back into the Demo-
cratic party, now that his pal John Steelman
is reconversion head and Sidney Hillman Is
gone. . Vet. Adm. will consolidate and econo-
mize. Move No. l will be to cut it's press
staff in half Thieves in the Night
by Arthur Koestler, will accuse the British
labor government of fostering the Arab
League.
Dottie Lamour and her husband, William
Ross Howard, Sd, were ir these parts ostensi-
bly, on a pleasure trip. Pleasure is right. He
took home a So, 500, 900 contract from Argen-
tine aviation groups for conversion of surplus
transports by the corp. of which he's execu-
tive V. 2. Rita Fayworth in Down to
Earth" plays Terpichore. The goddess of
the dance has to tread on clouds. To achieve
that, a cloud effect is spread, IA inches high
and Rita has to wear translucent plastic
wedges Il inches thick for the illusion. It's
gentle murder-when she has to do that as
a divinity, the embodiment of gracefulness.
Her ex is walking out under clouds instead
of on them. around the World folds, deep
in the red. Well, isn't that his pet color?
Walter Winchell can't stay out of type-got
a whole column reproduced in the Congress
sional Record (not on motion of any gentle
ma nsrorn Miss.) The way Columbia is
plugging The Jolson Story indicates a
Music Hall bid. Seth Babits' lyrics are
tops on Moro Morales Louis Sobol's Bolero''
Earl providers series, Report in Rus
sia,' is not an offering for the cause. Oh,
no. He gets $18 for each! . Robert Van
Gelder has resigned as book editor to write
shorter bills showing up in the hook shops.
Those who tut-tut with nostalgia regret over
the passing of the passenger ship should
talk with some of the travel agents. They
have been flooded with inquiries about re-
sumption Of sallings across, and cruises along
the shores. No swift luxury plane Will ever
give what the sick vessels did-leisure, re-
Taxation, that complete realization of remote
ness from cares and responsibilities. No
where else can strangers SO quickly become
friends, or better. .Inhibitions are left at
the dock. Music sounds so much more me-
lodious on a ship; wine tastes so much more
heady. . There is no sense OF haste. There
is sense Of repose-and tranquility. . NO, the
era of ships has not passed.
Leo Alderman and Peter Palladino, a cou-
pie of ex-GIs, have an IDEA. Whether it's good
Or not, it's new. They've opened an al-male
model agency in the Be!asco Theatre Bldg.
Most of the talent is young, but there are no
age brackets Models, yet no cheese-cake,
no pin-ups, no covercuties. Imagine?
Reported Romancing - Venita Vardon, ex
Mrs. Jack Oakie, and the French architect,
Joseph Varenne, cabling constantly. Kitty
Kallen, soprano, and Frank Parker, tenor, in
the key of G-whizz. Doris Sands, of the
Carnival chorus, and ice Erens. Sally Rawl-
inson, daughter of the silent star, Herbert R.,
and Alvin White, artist, will wed Aug. II.
Moune, the Partisan ccanteuse brought here
by Barney Josephson, married to Ellis Lar
kins, the pianist, in Baltimore. Art Ford
and the overs poser, Taffy Brown. Joan
Crawford seen again with Greg Bautzer-but
who ever knows what's going on in her nimble
brain?
There is more gambling to the square foot
in what is LETT of the New York "ghetto' than
in any other part of the city, including Har-
lem.