The Watered Cream

In its 60-year history the New York Social Register has been known to list --through accident or indulgence--murderers, convicts, and a Pekinese bitch. But Broadway and Hollywood are usually considered beyond the pale. The 1947 edition, out last week, showed that the secret board of editors* was more vigilant than ever. In stayed 24 Roosevelts, 20 Pells, 8 Vanderbilts, 4 Astors, 3 Stuyvesants, 7 de Peysters, 14 Havemeyers. Out went: P:Hyatt Von Dehn, longtime Registerite. He married Singer Ginny Simms in 1945, was listed with her in the 1946 edition. Ginny was found wanting. P:Mrs. Faith Corrigan Fair McNulty. She married Writer John McNulty in 1945, and they were listed in the 1946 edition. McNulty spent part of the year working on a book about a bar on Manhattan's Third Avenue, a street seldom mentioned in the Register. P: Mrs. Eleanor Labrot, who married Actor Brian Aherne last January. P:Socialite publisher Stuart Scheftel who married Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald last September. Listed under "Dilatory Domiciles," the Register's never-never classification reserved for those who are not settled at a permanent address, were: P:Socialite theatrical producer Horace Schmidlapp, who married lush Cinestar Carole Landis just after the Register's 1946 deadline.

P: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., and Jeanne Murray Vanderbilt, married a year ago, both of good family.

The outland editions (the Register publishes twelve of them) were more broadminded. In St. Louis, a daughter of the late beer baron August A. Busch stayed in even though she had married her gardener last May, had been divorced by him in July, had married her ex-chauffeur in August.

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