The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-01-11
STAGE and SCREEN

Pinkerton boys are being mean 10
them. LII Damita's current pash
is Jim Davis, the M.G.M find. %.
Murray Lewis, formerly a Billings
ley drumbeater, has Joined the Sam
Goldwyn stan 30. Marie Macdonald
will be In Manhattan with her
mother until after the premiere Of
Getting Gertie's Garter Then
she'll return TO Hollywood 70 seek
a divorce from Vie Orsatti.. Eddie
Davis is introducing a new song at
Leon & Eddies in which he plain
lively asks any bobby In the
audience: IL know Van Johnson is
young and thrillin'. but what has
he got that / wouldn't have after
shot OF penicillin?". The Eric
Johnson office has okayed the title
OF Fanny by Gaslight", the Eng
fish picture. on condition that no
one word in It be stressed in any
advertising or displays.
Al Jolson Is one OF the silent
partners OF the Hotel Tarleton in
Miami. That's the inn where they re
opening a dimly III cocktail lounge
called The Amber Room after
guess whom o.. Willis Hunt, an old
husband OF Carol lands who Is
currently being divorced from his
current wife, II you follow me. has
chosen Carole's successors success
sor. She's Teenie Best, an actress
80. The George con The Town }
Raxters are lullabying a baby girl
Latest bulletin on Jan Clay
ton o: SHOW Boat; she and Buddy
Lerner will name the date this
month 800. Hal Conrad and Temple
Texas are deep in the heart Of.
Singers GiGi Durston and Darlene
Zito, who MARBLE at the Monte
Carlo and Embassy Club, respec-
lively, have an odd kind OF trouble.
Both very recently turned is. Both
were graduated from Hartford,
Conn. high schools last June. And
both are obliged to tuck birth GER
tiicates into their gowns to prove
their age when they step into the
niteries to perform,
Inside on Mussolini's finish from
one who was there: Benito was
wearing the uniform of a German
soldier when he was captured by
the Partisans. His mistress was
not with him at the time; she was
waiting for him at hidden villa.
When he was captured and taken
10 the little inn outside Milan he
asked to see her and the Partisans
took her to him. Clarissa was not
killed at the same time as II Duce.
He was dead when the Partisans
left the inn: he had been tried
beaten to a pull and then shot,
His pretty mistress was killed
somewhere on the road TO Milan.
No one knows. except the PARTS
ans. exactly why. how or when.
She did not have to die. She chose
to stay with Mussolini and die with
him. She had a tremendous Tor
tune in Jewels with her.
The owner Of a sgd St. cafe who
was reported altar-bound with his
hat check girl will wind up In court
with her instead He forgot loan
she made him during the lean days
OF the curfew-but she didn't.
Dave Burns and Bill Tabbert, who
play a gangster and his bodyguard
in "Billion Dollar Baby" and shoot
It out in the first act finale, aren't
much more amicable offstage. They
haven't spoken in days. init.
mates believe Jackie Gleason and
Lillian Moore are married, but
when and where did he get his d.
vorce?. Lynn Gilmore shocked =
cosmetic firm by ordering 1900
lipsticks with her name engraved
on them. She's not that maad for
lipsticks. really; she Just ordered
them for feminine patrons OF Gil
mores, and with two motives: she
wants to give away as souvenirs
and wants her customers 10 wear a
lipstick that doesn't come of In
red smears on the glasses and cups