The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-06
Broadway and Elsewhere
By J4ck Lait
LADY DIAMOND JIM BRADY

LADY DIAMOND JIM BRADY "Death Valley Scotty" used to | slather money around, but he had | to go back to his desert gold mine now and then, to replenish the roll. But there's a spender in Holly wood who seems never to run thin and It's pretty girl, still in her twenties, who makes the Byzantine | banquets in the films look like lunch at the automat.
 Virginia Hill is her name, q bru- nette who came from Virginia to Broadway several years ago and took over. She tried to pick up all the tabs. and when she was toiled (not often) she sent gifts from Carriers and Tiffany's to her hosts. She soon found Hollywood calling or, not for the usual reason-Just because Broadway began to bore her.
 Before she turned her attractive fare westward, she had become the top Santa Claus in New York nightlife. Every night she presided over parties of from 10 to 30. A S1,OOO check was commonplace.
 Dave Wolper was then an attor- nev. with a theatrical clientele. He suggested Virginia buy a nightclub and she be her own best custo- mer. She said she would, if Vol per would go in with her So he hooked up with Paul Berney. who knew about such things. and Vlr- ginia put up S600OO for 8 share of the Hurricane Restaurant. Wolper liked the game and became q nighterie impresario. which he still is.
 Within a week, Virginia began cheating sneaked around to rival clubs to blow her dough. Her partners didn't like that So she told them to keep the Hurricane she wasn't going to be tied down. Since then shes been burning up Chicago. Miami, and mostly Holly wood
 During the war, in any place she entered, she sent drinks to all men in uniform. Nisei, who weren't welcome in most places = except when she organized a dozen and brought them in With her = she gathered in groups. For her all ropes came down.
 Some of the richest and proudest spenders are fIabbergasted not onlE when she beats them to the check in their own parties, but, seated at other tables, when they ask for the bad news, hear: Miss Hill has paid it"
 Civil Aeronautics Bureau may not know this: When it approved an around-the-WorId route for VIVA linked with Northwest Ar Line Howard Hughes. who owns IVA had an option on control of North west VIVA IS to fly N I. to Shanghai. via Europe: Northwest Is 10 pick up there flying to Alaska and Seattle Hughes option was to become effective n. as and when Northwest got Government pernis- sion to fly the Pacific. <. So 1t ap- pears Hughes. who broke the around-the-w world air record. has in hand the around -the-World route he lad ou. on that famous four day zoom.
 And. with announcement of the gIohe-ciecling license. plus the ap- proval of the Consultations with changes that will take only three weeks. IVA stock leaped so that Eughes' holdings have been risln7 at 2 rate Of about $1000000 da7 as he lies and listens to his rtbS knitting.
 Reported Romancing = Lyle Stu art. managing editor of Music Business. and Mary Louise Buck Ter, mode. to wed tomorrow. George Scheck, television tycoon and June Stewart. heireSs-land. scape artist, in line and tune. Monte Kay, producer, and Rust7 Reagan, pin-up pretty. .. Jet Me Donald. of Annie" and Ray Mur ray. the serious comedian, quietl, betrothed. Abner Silver, Wht wrote All Women Are Wolves, isn't afraid of Lucille Grants bari Or bite. =. Venus Miss America Ramey and Tony Craig the singer Milt Haney and Connie Haines And Adele Jergens and Ra, Rossbach, related to Hank Green berg by marriage.
 More than 300 U. s. Treasury me- have moved in on Boston, takel over an entire building It's
 tremendous probe of tax return from some couple of hundred Ne' England shoe factories. ... Report to Washington were that, before tn war, the standard wholesale prof on shoes was about four cents
 pair; that this was multiplied to $ pair by some manufacturers
 wartime, much of the differenc being handled under the table
 Many of the factories are in anoth CT dilemma, besides. Their booF have been subpoenaed and al frozen, so they can't close their aC counts as of their fiscal year-en
 June 30
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 up of a top naval commander is
 
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