Travelers

Pola Negri, 41, oldtime siren of the silents, and Negrophile Nancy Cunard, the British shipping family's 45-year-old problem child, tangled with immigration officials in New York harbor. They finally let Pola in despite the fact her papers were out of order. She had come from the Riviera. Nancy, who had come from Havana with no visa at all, settled on Ellis Island to await the next boat to England.

Mrs. P. G. Wodehouse took a train (and 19 trunks) to Berlin from France, saw her husband for the first time in a year (see p. 55).

Ex-King Carol and his Elena moved on to Vera Cruz, Mexico, from Cuba, where the social going has been tough for the consort. They talked of spending three months in Mexico.

The Duke of Kent is expected soon to inspect the pilot-training setup in Canada. Meantime his Duchess ducked reviewing a detachment of WRENS in England. Announced trouble: a cold. Real trouble: a wasp bite under her beautiful right eye.

The President's young cousin, Alexander Grant Jr., kayak champion of the East coast, is shooting the Colorado rapids from Lee's Ferry. He hopes to complete the two-week adventure in Lake Meade Aug. 1. Only mishap the first week was being once tossed ashore.

American-born Lady Astor is coming back to the U.S., to stay "until I have put an end to all the rubbish that is being said about us in the United States."

Glamor Daddy

YOU'RE A GLAMOR GIRL, with your great big dreamy eyes,

You could win a beauty prize, if you

wanted to;

YOU'RE A GLAMOR GIRL, Advertisers should be glad;--To adorn each subway ad with a girl like you. . . .

A year after he wrote this lyric, William Guggenheim, 72, maverick brother of the copper tycoons, wrote a last will & testament that was even cornier. The will left nothing to his wife and child, split his $1,000,000 estate (Broadway's estimate) equally among four women--all his "protegees" at the time of his death last June. The protegees: Lillyan Andrus (Miss America of '29), Mildred Borst (Miss Connecticut of '30), Marialyce Rice, a Texas-born Ziegfeld beauty. The fourth beneficiary: his secretary, Florence Sullivan.

When the girls got the good news last week that his will had been filed, they gurgled: "Kind and generous man . . ." ". . . couldn't have been kinder or sweeter. . . ." But there was no million. The estate had shrunk to $20,000.

Entertainers

Britain's Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, 15 and 10, did a song-&-dance act in a village benefit produced and stage-managed by themselves. Eliza beth wore her first long dress at a dancing party.

New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia is guest-conducting the National Symphony at its final sunset concert in Washington this week. His responsibilities: two Sousa marches and the Star-Spangled Banner. His father was an Army band leader.

Ezra Stone, 22, radio's Henry Aldrich, started his Army training at Camp Upton.

A letter from Kirsten Flagstad's husband to her manager revealed that she will not return to the U.S. from Kristiansand, Norway, for the coming season. To be scratched are $125,000 worth of bookings.

Franchot Tone was operated on in a Los Angeles hospital for kidney trouble.

Gifford Pinchot II, nephew of Pennsylvania's ex-Governor, was sued for $150,000 by a Hollywood dancer named Margo La Salle, who charged he knocked her flat at a nightclub.

Jack Dempsey announced that he and his exactress wife, Hannah Williams, had become reconciled.

Mrs. Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt, whose 15-minute chitsy-chatsy for Sweetheart Soap was sandwiched in between the early afternoon serials last year, will have a better radio spot after mid-September. Signed last week was a contract to put her on the air for a 15-minute talk every Sunday night at 6:45 E.D.S.T. for the Pan-American Coffee Bureau, U.S. representative of seven Latin-American countries which produce about 90% of the coffee consumed in the U.S.

Plugging coffee will enable Mrs. Roosevelt to do her bit both for charity and the Good-Neighbor policy. As usual, she will distribute her estimated $2,000-a-week radio earnings (minus taxes) to such favorite enterprises as the American Friends Service Committee. Her programs will also be short-waved to Latin America.

Out of Uniform

Bibulous Grover Cleveland Alexander, oldtime pitching marvel, was found lying in a Manhattan street, rushed to a hospital, where he was reported suffering from a skull fracture, possible brain hemorrhage, lacerations and a hip injury, as well as alcoholism.

Michigan Halfback Tom Harmon, now mugging for Hollywood's cameras, got a job as "sports director" of a Detroit radio station. He starts work in September.

Fighter Billy Conn, also cinemugging, chatting with Cinemactress Jean Parker, said he had once seen her on a Pittsburgh stage. He added: "I didn't think you were much good."

Kichisaburo Nomura, Japan's one-eyed Ambassador, busily pumped hands in Sumner Welles's waiting room, pumped a hand that swam into his vision from the blind side. It was the Negro attendant reaching for his hat. Next day China's Dr. Hu Shih, two-eyed but confused, made the same mistake, pumped the same hand in the same room.

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