The Busy Heart

Pulitzer Prizewinner Van Wyck Brooks (The Flowering of New England) got a license at 61 to marry Gladys Rice Billings, 60, remote in-law of Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall. Songwriter Milton Drake (Mairzy Doats) was sued for a separation by his lamzy divey, Betty. Dorothy Parker, 53, most-quoted lady wit of the '303, was sued for divorce by Fellow Writer Alan Campbell, who complained that they had become strangers. And Mickey Rooney, 24, was sued for separate maintenance by wife Betty Jane (Miss Birmingham 1944), who said she was dissatisfied with her $10,000-a-year settlement after learning that Mickey's salary was $250,000.

The Restless Foot

Umberto II of Italy was the latest jobless monarch to eye the U.S. as a tourist. He had a lot of friends there, said he, and it was just a matter of packing.

Sweden's King Gustaf, 88, home from ten weeks of embroidery (instead of tennis, by doctor's orders) on the French Riviera, was looking sharp as a needle.

The Queen Mother Nazli of Egypt, Princess Fathia, and sister Princess Faika, visiting in Manhattan, ventured out to a Broadway show. Fathia lost a breastpin of 36 diamonds and 25 sapphires. Next day she got it back; the usherette who found it got $100.

Rita Hay worth dropped in on the sunny south of France after a little Paris shopping. Ready for any emergency, she had bought, among other items: 17 evening dresses, 20 bottles of perfume, a case of champagne, a monkey, the collected works of Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre.

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