Beauty, Health, Style

Elsa Schiaparelli peered into the future, said of skirt-lengths: "It always depends on the legs."

Lady Halifax approved a Cleveland firm's "Lady Halifax Dress'' which has a V-neck.

Anna May Wong, 34, unmarried, announced to interviewers: "I've come to the conclusion that everybody should marry, including me." She disclosed she had bought a house: "An early American ranch house which has a very Chinese feeling. . . ."

Lucy Monroe sang in Philadelphia with a toasted left hand. Left-handed Lucy said a lamp had "exploded" when she plugged it in.

Anne Shirley was sent home from a movie set with tonsillitis.

Veronica Lake, according to studio publicity, gets kissed nine times in her new picture, to make up for a completely kissless cinema past.

Maureen O'Hara, Irish, took out her first U.S. citizenship papers.

Betty Compton Walker, English, ex-showgirl ex-wife of ex-May or Jimmy Walker, applied for U.S. citizenship after five years here.

Gloria Vanderbilt, of the up-again-down-again hairdo, did a now-you-see-it-now-you-don't turn as a magician's volunteer helper in a Manhattan nightclub before she left for California.

Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la Coudraye ignored ex-wives Gloria Swanson, Constance Bennett when he answered an inquiring reporter's query: With what five women would he like to retire from business? His five: Ina Claire, Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Clare Boothe, Elsa Maxwell, Greta Garbo.

Arthur Murray's five: Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable, Ann Miller and Mrs. Murray, "who is not only a superb dancer but has all the additional qualities that would make a man happy in retirement." Pope Pius XII told 3,000 newly weds to trust each other, emphasized that if the husband was a doctor, a lawyer, state official or military officer with professional secrets "the wife must show she trusts her husband and make no attempt to learn the secret."

Earl Carroll set an urn on his bedroom mantel in Hollywood, prepared to live with the ashes of his brother, Major James, who left Carroll his $10,000 estate with the stipulations: 1) that his ashes be kept in the bedroom, 2) that one-third of the estate be handed over to ex-Showgirl Josie Posie De Forrest. The brother's will explained of the ashes, "It may be possible that I will be able to listen in on conversations even though I am just ashes"; of Josie Posie, "After all our battles and loving in 1925, she is certainly entitled to it."

Henry Huddleston Rogers III, bespectacled Standard Oil heir who enraged the folk of Bethel, Conn, by grazing sheep on his lawn last June, moved into a new estate at Southampton, L.I., shortly trotted to police with a complaint of grand larceny. Standing on the $100,000 estate when he bought it, he said, was a holly tree. Now it was gone. Cried Rogers: "I liked that tree. My wife liked that tree." The chief of police went on a vacation.

The late Edith Wharton's richly furnished villa at Hyeres on the Riviera will be sold at public auction next month.

Veterans

Queen Elizabeth, visiting a defense plant, found she had to get herself fitted with a special pair of nonskid shoes before she could look around.

George Bernard Shaw agreed to play a tailor-made role: guest expert on a transatlantic Information Please program (see P. 52).

Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, famed Gobi Desert explorer, quit as director of the American Museum of Natural History, explaining that since the museum now needs new financing more than dinosaur eggs, "the problems confronting the institution . . . are not those for which I am particularly fitted. . . ." Senator Alben William Berkley made a speech in Memphis, fainted afterward of "fatigue and excitement." W. C. Fields went on the wagon again, predicted no good would come of it.

William S. Hart, flint-faced hero of the silent Westerns, gave an interview in Man hattan, observed: "It would be ill-becoming of me to say anything against the talkies. But it's my honest opinion that the old, silent pictures were superior." Buster Keaton was arrested for drunkenness, pleaded with the judge that he had asked cops to take care of him, therefore knew he needed aid, therefore was not drunk. Unconvinced, the judge fined him $5.

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