The Nobility

Lady Diana Duff Cooper, daughter of eight Dukes, was patriotically collecting swill for her pigs from door to door in Bognor Regis, Sussex, when she was picked up on three traffic charges. ∽∽ Third wife Sylvia, ex-Lady Ashley got her $3,000 monthly allowance from Douglas Fairbanks' estate continued for six months. Other heirs had claimed this was more than the income on her half-share, for the estate may be much less than the $2,000,000 Doug thought he was leaving, had asked that her allowance be reduced to $1,000 monthly. ∽∽ Princess Olga Troubetzkoi of the Philadelphia Social Register was arrested for running a high-toned bawdyhouse in Manhattan,∽∽ Ex-King Carol of Rumania was reported dickering for admission to the U.S. Reason: Cuban society wasn't having any of Elena Lupescu.

To Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge, who recently called all out-of-State professors in Georgian universities "foreigners," the Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham, Ala. sent a fancy, gold-sealed, round-trip "passport" certifying him as "a free citizen . . . permitted to enter the State of Alabama."

Press-Agent Gags

Dorothy Lamour offered to write to any draftee whose number is 8962. ∽∽ Paramount urged a screen test on Ernest Hemingway for a part in For Whom the Bell Tolls, ∽∽ "An airplane factory" barred a visit from Susan Hayward because time lost for ogling would cost $20,000. ∽∽ A Hollywood soda fountain put a plaque on a stool reading "On This Stool Sat Lana Turner When She Was Discovered."

The lecture agent for Sinclair Lewis, husband of Dorothy Thompson, announced that the novelist would lecture for a fee on any of three subjects, including "Has the Modern Woman Made Good?"

Washington

Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard rushed cross-country to his 360-acre Indiana farm when he heard his special breed of hogs was doing poorly, declaring he'd show the veterinarians a thing or two. ∽∽ Joseph Alsop, who gave up his syndicated Washington column to join Naval Intelligence, was ordered to India. ∽∽ Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand, the President's longtime personal secretary, lay ill of neuritis in a Washington hospital, planned a month's rest when she got out.

The four-year feud between Philadelphia's Coal and Autogiro Tycoon Raymond Pitcairn and his ousted gardener literally burst into flame last week. The sprawling rubbish dump the gardener has been carefully developing right across from Pitcairn's neatly manicured estate caught fire, and the Bryn Athyn fire department cheerfully let the eyesore burn.

He & She

Joe Louis socked her twice, said high-styled Marva Trotter, suing for divorce. She also asked a cut of the $800,000 she says the Champ has salted away out of his $2,000,000 earnings (see p. 46). Joe denied everything. "We had arguments," he said, "but I thought them was settled. Lotsa married folks have 'em." Shortly Joe left for Chicago to try to settle this one. ∽∽ Meantime, Billy Conn, the almost-champ, pulled a sneak wedding to 19-year-old Mary Louise Smith, went into hiding at Promoter Mike Jacobs' home in Rumson, N.J. Reason: her father had threatened to knock Billy silly if they did it. ∽∽ Marion Talley finally won a divorce from her music-teacher husband, whose countersuit had credited eight assorted lovers to the onetime star of the Metropolitan (who later reduced on and for Ry-Krisp). A Los Angeles judge listened to the evidence seven weeks, found all the charges against the singer false, gave her custody of Daughter Susan April. ∽∽ Chunky, bushy-browed Thomas E. Mitchell, 46, (GWTW's Gerald O'Hara) remarried his former wife, 25 years after they were first wed. ∽∽ Rosalind Russell, Hollywood's No. 1 Bachelor Girl, denied plans to elope with Agent Frank Brisson, denied still more emphatically that she was 34 and Brisson ten years younger, ∽∽ Torchsinger Lillian Roth won an annulment of her marriage to Manhattan Importer Eugene Weiner on the ground that he had misrepresented the character of his past. Month ago he drew a six-month jail sentence for blacking her eye.

Richard Whitney, the ex-Stock Exchange president who became Sing Sing's best-known convict, came up for parole this week, hoped to get out Aug. 11 after serving three years and four months of his five-to-ten-year embezzlement sentence. He has been a model prisoner, and a parole has been recommended by the judge who sentenced him.

"The amusing thing about moving pictures," wrote voluble William Saroyan, "is the enormous number of nonentities who work together to make something any normal half-wit would prefer not to make in the first place."

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