Uniforms

Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton of Ohio plumped for a military women's auxiliary under Army control, replied to the suggestion that women might tire of all-work-and-no-glamor: "There is nothing the women of the country will welcome more than to have that word 'glamor' taken away."

Lieut. Robert Montgomery, U.S.N.R., walked into the lobby of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, encountered a force of pen-waving ladies with autograph books. Unmolested, unnoticed was a bystander, Herbert Hoover.

Sergeant Winthrop Rockefeller got his second lieutenant's bars at Fort Benning. Carter Glass III got his at Illinois' Scott Field.

Lieut. Richard Aldrich, producer husband of Gertrude Lawrence, went on active duty with the Navy's public-relations staff in Manhattan.

Jack Dempsey finally got a uniform. When the Army turned him down because of his age (46) he got offers from the Navy, refused because: "I could get in the Navy, but I don't like water or boats." He went to New York's Governor Herbert Lehman and offered himself to the State Guard. Last week he was sworn in by the Guard as a first lieutenant, assigned as aide-de-camp to the Commanding General.

Critics

Cary Grant on Hollywood: "Chivalry has no place on the streetcar marked Fame. . . . Your fellow passengers are intent on gouging out your eyes. ... If a woman gets in your way, correct Hollywood etiquette is to slug her before she slugs you."

Fannie Hurst said she was writing her autobiography, "writing of the vulgarities in my family--horrible but necessary to be truthful. . . . Telling of family vulgarities is something that autobiographers simply don't do. But I'm doing it."

Elissa Landi advocated that dramatic critics "temper their honesty" to help the theater's business.

Dr. Oliver St. John Gogarty, pepper-tongued Irish satirist, on U.S. women: "They all want to look like the dummies in the shop windows. . . . There is more variety in your men than women."

Sick List

Artie Shaw broke up his band again after he was ordered into a hospital for two weeks' rest. Reported trouble: "a generally run-down condition," chronic cold.

Mary Livingstone, ill with a sinus infection, read her last line on a Jack Benny broadcast, fainted, was carried offstage by Husband Benny.

To King Leopold III of the Belgians his bride of last September has borne a son, according to the London News Chronicle. The boy, reported born Dec. 30, was named Philip, Prince de Rethy. The Belgian throne will never be his by succession, for when Leopold wed the striking Marie-Lelia Baels, a commoner, last Sept. 11 he renounced such a right for any children by that marriage.

Money Matters

Doris Duke Cromwell, fighting tax levies of nearly $14,000,000 against her as a permanent resident of New Jersey's Hillsborough Township, testified that: 1) she had taken up Hawaii as a permanent residence, because "I feel better there than I do in the U.S."; 2) she had no idea what her wealth amounted to; 3) she habitually signed papers without reading them. Husband James H. R. Cromwell, from whom she is now estranged, changed his mind about living in Hawaii, she said, because he had "political ambitions in New Jersey" in 1938, but she herself plans to return to her island home, Shangri-La, when the war is over. "I love to be out of doors," she explained.

Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow (Barbara Hutton) gave $25,000 to the Red Cross War Fund in New York City.

The late Charles M. Schwab's 27-room mansion in Bethlehem, Pa. went on the auction block, drew one bid: $5,000. Administrators of the estate declined, decided to try again later.

Sir Hubert Wilkins, bearded Arctic explorer, offered to reduplicate a stunt he described to an Idaho Falls lecture audience. Two lecture-goers had heard him say that, after a fall through the ice, he stripped in 40-below weather, dried his clothes with snow. The two dared him to do it again. Sir Hubert's price: $10,000.

Buddy Baer sued two autoists for $150,000 damages, for muscle injuries he charged he received in a collision before his fight with Joe Louis.

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