Hollywood Dollar-Dolors

The U.S. sued Comedian Oliver Hardy for $96,757 income taxes, Victor Mc-Laglen for $6,113, Comedienne Zasu Pitts for $426. // 11 Beauty Connoisseur Earl Carroll sued Paramount for $300,000, charging A Night at Earl Carroll's had done that much damage to his reputation as a producer. // Franchot Tone told the district attorney he gave a jeweler $14,100 to buy a diamond-and-sapphire clip, sell it, and split the profits; but the jeweler put the clip in hock and never gave back the money. // Nelson Eddy and stepson settled an $8,723 damage suit against them for a traffic accident. // A cinemagoer who said he tripped over Chico Marx's sprawled legs in a theater sued Chico and the management for $15,300.

War & Defense

In rebellious Norway Kirsten Flagstad told reporters she was staying there by choice, to be with her family. She has refused to sing publicly. // Sally Rand turned up two hours and 15 minutes late for a personal appearance at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., found 13,800 soldiers had gone off to bed. // Canadian Air Marshal William A. ("Billy") Bishop's son, Arthur, 18, enlisted in the R.C.A.F. // Robert Hopkins, 20, son of Harry Hopkins by his first wife, volunteered for a year's Army service, with the O.K. of both his divorced parents. // Millionaire Private Paul Mellon waived his automatic release as a married man of 34. // Youngest son John Roosevelt graduated from Harvard's Navy Supply School, was assigned to San Diego's Naval Air Station as assistant supply officer. // Captain Elliott Roosevelt was ordered to Kelly Field for a course in aerial navigation. 11 In a blackout rehearsal at Port Washington, L.I., Bernard M. Baruch and Herbert Bayard Swope directed traffic, Baroness Robert de Rothschild served as a chauffeur. // Betty Grable turned up in Manhattan with a sweater her publicity handlers swore was knitted for her by the R.A.F. // Mme. Chiang Kai-shek sent panda-hunters to Tibet to replace the Bronx Zoo's deceased Pandora. It is her gesture of thanks to United China Relief.

He & She

Mae West's husband, ex-hoofer Frank Wallace, sued the rolling blonde for $1,000 a month separate maintenance, charging her with adultery with her business manager, friendliness with colored and Filipino prizefighters. He said she had kept employers from hiring him after the revelation of their 1911 marriage. // Cinemactress Ann Sothern announced a trial separation from Husband Roger Pryor, gave "our widely divergent activities" as the trouble, // Model Mary Bland Reynolds, Senator Robert R. Reynolds' 23-year-old daughter by his second wife, tried suicide by gas. Her mother blamed "a lovers' quarrel." // Bernarr Macfadden's daughter Byrniece sued musi-comedy veteran Georges Metaxa for an annulment, charging his Mexican divorce from his first wife was not legal. // Cinemactress Maureen O'Hara sued R.A.F. Pilot George Brown for an annulment, blamed "want of understanding." // Mining Heir Dana Dodge, 25, who was charged with bigamy and sued for seduction and fraud by the hula dancer he married while Evelyn Thorye was still his wife, won an annulment of the hula marriage, withdrawal of the bigamy case, dismissal of the damage suit, a divorce from Evelyn. He is now in a sanitarium.

Anatomy

Work on Betfe Davis' new picture was interrupted for a possible two weeks when a friend's Scottie nipped her on the nose. Caninamorous Bette is a pillar of the Tailwaggers' Foundation. // For an alleged kick and a blow with a golf club a caddy sued U.S. Treasurer William Alexander Julian (who autographs all paper money) for $10,000. // Errol Flynn collapsed with nervous exhaustion, was hospitalized in Hollywood. // Lightweight Champ Levy Jenkins got a collection of cuts and bruises when he lost control of his motorcycle in Hackensack, N.J., roared off the road and took a nose dive. // C.I.O.'s Phil Murray left the Pittsburgh hospital where he had been since a heart attack July 13. // Dim-witted Al Capone, 260 lb., is growing John Bull sideburns. // Columnist Sidney Skolsky announced that Judy Garland bites her nails.

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