That Place

To work as a cinemactor went portly, playful Dudley Field Malone, 60, once wealthy, long-famed attorney for the glittering great, once assistant Secretary of State (under Wilson). The film: Hollywood's version of Friend Joseph E. Davies' Mission to Moscow. The role: Winston Churchill, for whom Malone, from the skull down, is a ringer.

Husband Stephen Crane, 27, just found out his first wife's divorce from him would not be final till next week, said 22-year-old Julia Jean Crane (Cinemarmful Land Turner). The actress forthwith sued for an annulment seven months after she thought she had married him. Crane issued a formal statement expressing deep sympathy, understood that "Miss Turner should do everything legally necessary for the protection of the child soon to be born." No one mentioned the possibility of a second ceremony later on.

London got a breath of Hollywood when Cinemablonde Carole Landis married U.S. Army Air Forces Captain Thomas C. Wallace in a little church off Piccadilly Circus. For her third marriage the 24-year-old bride wore an inviting package of white satin and tulle, carried white orchids and carnations. Maid of honor was Dancer Mitzi Mayfair. The church crawled with reporters and photographers, who bustled down the aisle after the happy couple, went to work from prominent positions along the altar rails. The groom mumbled his lines, but the bride was in good voice. Afterwards on the church steps flash bulbs started popping again, and photogenic Mrs. Wallace helped out. She nudged her husband, whispered, "Remember to look the same way as I do." Gowns by Norman Hartnell, dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth.

The Winner

Contralto Marian Anderson finally scored her triumph over the Daughters of the American Revolution. After four years of brush-offs she sang in Washington's Constitution Hall, to the first nonsegregated audience in the hall's history. From 30 to 40% of her 3,844 listeners were Negroes, who sat among Washington's social and political bigwigs, occupied at least 13 of the 52 boxes. "I'm so thrilled," said the singer, "I don't know how I feel."

The Literary Life

Elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts & Letters was William Saroyan, gamin of dramaturgy, along with fellow litterateurs Samuel N. Behrman, James Gould Cozzens, John Gneisenau Neihardt. Now an Army private, bad boy Saroyan remained silent about the organization of which Sinclair Lewis once remarked that it "does not represent American letters today. It represents only Henry Wadsworth Longfellow." Elected vice president: ex-bad boy Sinclair Lewis.

Investigation into renewed "muggings" on Manhattan's streets disclosed that Drama Critic George Jean Nathan had been assaulted at 2 a.m. on Fifth Avenue. Two strangers jumped him from behind, knocked him down, tried to throw him through a plate glass window, went off without robbing him. He got a sore rib, a thoroughly shredded overcoat.

A U.S. grand jury in Miami studied the case of Serialist Ursula Parrott, charged with smuggling a soldier prisoner out of an Army stockade (TIME, Jan. 11), indicted her on three counts: "enciting" desertion from the U.S. Army, harboring a deserter, undermining the loyalty, discipline or morale of the armed forces. Conviction could carry a maximum penalty of 13 years' imprisonment or a $12,000 fine, or both.

In, Up & Away

Clark Gable, who wanted to be an aerial gunner when he joined the Army last August, got his wish: he graduated from the Army Air Forces Gunnery School at Florida's Tyndall Field, was assigned to Fort George Wright, Wash., where bomber crews for combat duty are trained.

Tyrone Power went into training at San Diego as a private in the Marine Corps, aimed for duty with the glider forces.

Lieut. Joseph L Lockard, the ex-private who got the D.S.M. for reporting the approach of enemy planes at Pearl Harbor, was again assigned to Honolulu--frost-bitten Honolulu, Alaska.

Into the Navy as a chaplain went the balding, slim Rev. Frank Ray Wilson, 48, rector of St. James Episcopal Church at Hyde Park, after first getting the permission of his senior warden, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The senior warden, now administrative head of the church till a new rector is chosen, wrote: "In your place I would do the same thing myself."

Patients' Conditions

"Satisfactory": Honey-haired Honey Veronica Lake; in a Hollywood hospital after an appendectomy.

"Excellent": Boys Town's famed Father Edward J. Flanagan; in a hospital in Rochester, Minn., after an operation on his spine.

"Fine": Salonkeeper Mabel Dodge Luhan, literary tell-all (Intimate Memories)', in a Manhattan hospital after an operation.

"Resting comfortably": Alfred Emanuel ("Al") Smith; in another Manhattan hospital, where his doctor sent him to rest comfortably.

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