Prince Louis Ferdinand, 33-year-old grandson of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II and onetime mechanic in the Ford plant at Detroit, now an officer in the German air corps, was reported a prisoner of war in Canada.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh turned up at his new job at Ford's Willow Run plant, wearing "Victory model" trousers (sans cuffs), posed with his boss for photographers.

Out of the Atlanta pen went the late Huey Long's onetime social tutor and short-time political heir, bald Seymour Weiss, paroled after serving about half of his 30-month sentence for mail fraud.

Into uniform at last goes pinko, 32-year-old "Youth" Leader Joseph P. Lash next week. Refused a commission in the Navy despite the support of Friend Eleanor Roosevelt, he applied for enlistment in the Army, last week was ordered to report for induction as a private, April 13.

Cinemactress Ona Munson, player of aging hospitable shady ladies ("Belle Watling," "Mother Gin Sling"), was chosen by the Chamber of Commerce as Hollywood's official hostess.

Multimillionaire Sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 29-year-old president of Belmont Park and of Pimlico, resigned his presidencies, applied for a commission as lieutenant, junior grade, in the Naval Reserve.

Walter de Havilland, 69, father of Cine-stars Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine (1941 Oscar winner), turned up in Denver with his Japanese second wife, Yoki, looking for a job. Saying that neither of his daughters would have anything to do with him because of Yoki, he added wistfully: "I guess Olivia is worth about four million dollars."

Springtime in Hollywood

Lili Damita divorced Errol Flynn, charged him with "paying more attention to his yachts than me." She got custody of their infant son, half interest in some $150,000 worth of property, $1,500 a month as long as the actor stays in the $180,000-a-year class, a minimum of $9,000 a year if he drops below it.

Private Jackie Coogan, ex-husband of Betty Grable, announced that he had separated from his second wife, Flower Parry Coogan, eight months after their marriage, one month after the birth of their son.

Agent Myron Selznick was divorced by ex-Cinemactress Marjorie Daw. She got custody of their daughter, a settlement of some $1,200 a month.

Carole Landis denied reports that she was planning to marry Lieut. Commander Gene Markey, ex-husband of Hedy Lamarr.

Madeleine Carroll denied reports that she had married Stirling Hayden.

Real news: Frank Morgan and his wife celebrated their 28th wedding anniversary.

Niche

New figures ready to join the waxen ranks of the great in Mme. Tussaud's in London, world's most famed waxworks: General Douglas MacArthur, Sir Stafford Cripps, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek.

National Forecast?

Guests of Alexander Woollcott, arriving at his island in Bomoseen Lake, Vt., have always had to make the trip from the dock to his house on foot, because the island is too small to accommodate a car. In the Chicago Daily News last week appeared a want ad: "WANTED-Jinrikisha, preferably one originally used at Chicago Century of Progress. Address Alexander Woollcott, Bomoseen, Vt."

Industry

Because of the war, Orson Welles, who went to Rio de Janeiro to make a film, Journey Into Fear, is gnawing his nails awaiting the arrival of indispensable material from Hollywood: 25 rubber noses.

Ink

Everybody guessed and nobody guessed right. Identity of the pseudonymous author of Escape, popular anti-Nazi thriller of 1939-40, was the best literary mystery in a publishing tycoon's age. Leading can didates of the guessers were Dorothy Thompson, Rebecca West, I. A. R. Wylie. Last week the real author came out of hiding, proved to be Novelist Grace Zaring Stone (The Almond Tree, The Bitter Tea of General Yen), who had waited to declare herself till a daughter in Hungary had safely reached the U.S. Of her pen name (Ethel Vance), Authoress Stone explained she had chosen it because "it sounds like a name you were born with and can't get rid of."

Cinetsar Will Hays appointed as his new assistant a once-famed crime writer who turned lawyer: Charles Francis Coe (Me . . . Gangster; Swag, Pay Off).

Poet Alfred Noyes, leaving the U.S. for Canada, blamed modern literature for the state of the world today, said of the fall of France that Marcel Proust was "enough in himself to cause it."

At the opening of a rest home in Surrey for bombed-out mothers and children, Mrs. Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr., wife of the U.S. minister to exiled governments, posed for photographers with twin girls in her arms. One of the babies obligingly gave a smart salute.

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