Bejeweled Hyena

Dorothy Thompson and a buxom blonde Naziphile met on a sidewalk outside Manhattan's Cafe Royal, favorite downtown haunt of Jewish actors, writers, professionals. Inside, Columnist Thompson had been sitting with Austrian Refugee Economist Dr. Gustav Stolper. The anonymous blonde, laden with jewels and alcohol, had entered with an anonymous escort. "Heil Hitler!" barked the blonde presently. Nothing happened. Followed more heiling, loud comments on Jewish cooking. Followed the ejection of the blonde by the management. Followed Columnist Thompson.

"There was that damned hyena . . . this intoxicated harridan, waiting for the first person to come out," she explained later. "It was too bad it was me." Miss Thompson, awaiting her cab, started on her sidewalk neighbor: "My good woman. . . ." The blonde rejoined with a kick to the stomach, got a push in the face. The blonde bit Miss Thompson's right index finger, jumped in a cab and scooted away.

The columnist's finger was a mess. But she had the last word. She re-entered the Cafe Royal, her finger dripping. "Is there a doctor in the house?" she inquired. "I think I have hydrophobia."

Sad Music

Bing Crosby ripped the seat of his pants at the Western Open Championship golf tournament. From the gallery--largest in Arizona history--a sympathetic fan darted out on the green, did a quick patch-up with his spectator's badge.

Frankie Baker, who says she shot Johnny in 1899, went to court in St. Louis to claim $250,000 damages for humiliation caused her by the movie made out of the famed blues song. Among her claims: there was no "root-a-toot-toot"--only a solitary shot.

Materia Medica

Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe resigned as official physician of the Dionne Quintuplets. Said the man who attended their birth in 1934 and became the world's best-known country doctor: "I felt that my usefulness has come to an end." Ontario's Premier Mitchell Hepburn commented: "It is no secret that things have not been harmonious there for some time. . . ." The Dionnes won custody of the Quintuplets last September. Added difficulty: Dr. Dafoe speaks little French, the Quints little English.

Mickey Rooney's bride of five weeks, Ava Gardner, had out her appendix in Hollywood, in a hurry.

Jack Dempsey said good-by to two male guests at a party in the Dempsey apartment in Manhattan. The guests preferred to stay. Later, ambulance attendants treated one for a possible jaw fracture and black eye, the other for a scalp wound and a split lip. "I just slapped 'em around a bit," the ex-champ protested. No charges were brought.

Allegiances

Charles Boyer, born in France 42 years ago, won his final U.S. citizenship papers in Hollywood.

Gilbert Roland also became a U.S. citizen. Husband of Constance Bennett, the cinemactor was born Luis Antonio Damaso De Alonso in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Giuseppe Di Maggio and wife Rosalia, parents of Ballplayers Joe, Dominic, Vince, took out their first citizenship papers after 39 years in the U.S.

Laura Ingalls failed to convince a U.S. jury in Washington that she had acted as a patriotic free-lance spy in her dealings with the German Embassy. She was found guilty of failing to register as a paid Axis agent, faced a possible sentence of two years in prison, a $1,000 fine. The greying aviatrix said she had taken the German Embassy's orders because she thought that by using an emotional approach, she could do better spy work against the Nazis than the FBI could. "I saw myself as a sort of Mata Hari," said she.

Veterans

Lieut. General William S. Knudsen, who stayed in mufti when he got his military title four weeks ago because "I can shoot trouble better without wearing a uniform," changed his mind.

Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, 67, father of the U.S. Envoy to the exiled Governments in London, returned to active service with the Marines as a teacher of hand-to-hand fighting at Quantico. Energetic, mustachioed Colonel Biddle was famed in the early 1900s as organizer of an Athletic Christianity movement, combining Bible classes and musclebuilding. Amateur boxer, wrestler, Sunday school teacher and literary dilettante, he taught hand-to-hand fighting at Quantico in World War I.

George H. Earle, ex-Minister to Bulgaria, hoped to re-enter the Navy "to take a crack at those fellows who made life miserable for me for ten months in Bulgaria." Earle was commander of a subchaser in World War I.

Royal Family

Diana Barrymore announced that she was going to marry Actor Bramwell Fletcher "within three or four months."

Samuel Colt, 32-year-old son of Ethel Barrymore, joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps, went into training at Camp Upton.

John Barrymore reached 60.

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