The daily record., 1952-02-11

AL OAeA
Hello, Jack. 1t might interest you
to know the cops here raided a
post of Alcoholics Anonymous.
That's right. Took out eight slot
machines
Another ring. Los Angeles Z.
Branch Hickey, the Pittsburgh
mahatma, bought IS percent of the
Hollywood Stars baseball club for
$4,000. A bargain if the Pacific
Coast ever goes big-time."
The Ray Browns have reconciled.
She's songstress Ella Fitzgerald
Paul Valentine, once the husband
of Lii St. Cyr, is wooing Cathy
Mastice, who sings with her clothes
on Iranian Prince Hassan Tag
havi, a student at Columbia. is tax
ing extra -curricular courses in the
philosophy of this and that from
leggy showgirl Eleanor Williams
A 23-year-old beauty, acclaimed
one of the three loveliest models in
the land, is out of a hospital, dis
figured for life after her hoodlum
sweetie slashed her face with a
glass ash-tray.
The Clark Gable registration at
the Pierre is a front. He's living
with friends on Long Island. And
he has secretly visited Sylvia, Lady
Ashley. his estranged wife, who
was carried in after an auto crash.
She is not at hospital, as re-
ported, but is being cared for on
the estate of a longtime chum
Rhea Gable, one of the exes, is in
Palm Beach, and may wed Clar-
ence Biting, Sr., sugarman.
Robert Taylor is around town,
mostly with Randy Collins, the
fashion lensmens sweetest dish.
And Barbara Stanwyck is due here
by any plane. She will look over
the latest plays, then wing for
Florida vacation.
Kay Williams, who settled her
financial oidoes with ex-husband
Adolph Spreckles, will be in New
York this week to live with her
brother, Vince Williams, ABC ra-
dioeaster, until she can collect the
cash, next month Farley Gran
ger phones Geraldine Brooks, the
cute trouper. here regularly !: Fitch
ard Greene, recently divorced from
Pat Medina, will come east to see
Carolyn Price, who, they tell me,
is related to a former governor of
West Virginia.
Vito Marcantonio, who has been
spending most of his time lobby
ing in Washington. is busy again
in his 18th Congressional District.
His American Labor Party activi-
ties are humming. He expects to
run once more for his seat in Con-
gress and he may win. He will "a
gain be the main wheel of the Pro-
gressive Party, which will enter a
candidate for the Presidency
probably Paul Robeson-though his
man Henry Wallace threw New
York state to the Republicans,
whom Marc hates with vengeful
fervor.
In the current True Crime De-
tective is a report by DR.. Joseph
Cation, who interviewed Winnie
Ruth Judd as scientific subject.
He reveals that she had been tin-
faithful to her husband with
married man. whom she loved mad
ly. The two women whom she kill
ed had threatened to break up that
romance DR.. Cation adjudged
her not insane and seems to have
rather admired some Of her char
acteristicS.
MGM took stern official action
to sever a budding association be-
tween Denise Darcel and Serge
Rubenstein, the slick promoter who
did stretch in the federal pen :.
Bill Buckner. who also looked OUT
side from the inside, is in close
touch with his ex-wife, the former
Adelaide Moffett, who's getting her
final Florida divorce papers from
Maj. William Craven Gary Coop
er is showing interest in Hungar-
ian beauty lisa Bay; friends ex-
pected him to rekindle with his
wife at Sun Valley.
A slot-machine was borrowed as
a video prop for Rudy HALEY,
from his friend Ethel Smith, who
had 1t in her rumpus room, where
callers played it and made it heavy
with their nickels When the one
armed bandit was returned to the
home of the organist after having
served as an exhibit on Crime
Syndicated'-lo. it contained one
lone nickel!
Louis B. Mayer, Who win produce
films on his own, bought the
rights to "Paint Your Wagon"
Warmers bid 100000: Paramount
went to $35O,0OO, but Mayer Of
fered 100000 and five percent of
the profits, which did it.
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