The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-02-07

Fanny Brice Is more seriously III
than she allows her colleagues to
suspect. After spending almost
quarter OF a million dollars on
"One Touch OF Venus, Mary Pick
ford is peddling II arouni." The
Louis Busches (Janet Blair OF the
films) have their intimates won.
dering. =. Billy Roses sister Polly
will waltz down the aisle with
Alex Gottlieb, the Warner Broth
ers producer. The Duke and
Duchess of Windsor cant walt TO
get back to the U.S.A. They ex-
pect to buy a house here and re-
main indefinitely. All those head
lines about the reunion Gay Orlova
planned with Lucy Luciano came
as q complete surprise-not TO say
shock-to him. He hasn't heard
from her in many years.. Van
Johnson will rate q police body
guard. II he wants one when he
hits Manhattan. to keep his too
loving fans from tearing him to
itsy-bitsy pieces. Martha Raye
enters the hospital for a gland
operation in March. right after
she closes at the Carnival.
Sophie Tucker, who instigated
the current ban on Celebrity Nights
and waged q one-woman campaign
against them. might begin to think
she was a split personality II she
would look at page 15S OF her auto
biography, in which she admits her
first success as a night club star
came at Risenweber's when she
introduced the custom Of celebrity
nights-which she called '"Bohem-
ian Nights. Sophie's exact words:
Il would look over the room and
see who recognized and introduce
them TO the crowd" She goes on
TO say that songs became successes
overnight by being introduced
there, and stars got their first
breaks by being seen there. She
AYERS that such notables as Joe
Frisco, Loretta McDermott and
George Raft were started on the
road TO fame at her Sunday nights.
which attracted so many important
theatrical people. Inconsistent,
wot?
A Broadway press agent dropped
his life savings-$26, ,000-in a gin
rummy game this week. The win
ner was a nitery owner. Watch
for Page / game-throwing rum
pus centered around another local
school-similar TO the Brooklyn
College basketball scandal OF last
year. This time one player and
the teams coach are involved. :.
The Federal Narcotics Squad,
which has been increased to fight
the spread OF dope-ring activities.
Is reported to have sent a secret
report to ]. Edgar Hoover urging
that he close down 52d ST. entirely
-. Sonia Henie is long-distancing
a Swedish shipping Lagnate now
in Washington. Singer Patr:c-a
Bright viewed ITO Have and Have
Not" 100 times 70 perfect her Ba-
call routine for when You and ]
We're Young. Bogie", with which
she slays the st. Regis customers.
Madison Square Garden will In
stall a gigantic air-conditioning
unit for the Lex Thompson gala
gal show, which will occupy the
place this summer. Marty May
confded to ringsiders at Tony
Pastors Uptown that he was set for
the Charlie Davenport role in
annie Oakley. Milton Berle
quits the William Morris agency
as OF March 1. On Bing Crosby's
recommendation Paramount Offer
ed Jimmy Cannon a $500 a-week-
writing Job, but he turned 1t down.
Customers at a midtown beauty
shoppe were titillated the other af-
ternoon when the naval officer hus-
band OF a glamours motion picture
actress got bored waiting around
for her-and got himself perman-
entl.. A play based on the career
OF the late Vice-President Charles
Curtis is making the rounds, Ezra
Stone is reported an interested
money man.. Rita Hayworth
wears wedges with transparent
plastic soles in "Gilda". They give
the impression that you're walk
ing on air. girls. . An oft-starred
young screen ingenue collapsed on
the set the other day. Reason:
Too much staying out late to win
the love of a student from use.