Run Off

Restless, grasshoppity Comic Eddie Cantor underwent a minor operation in a Manhattan hospital, made his weekly broadcast from bed, but had to close his musicomedy Banjo Eyes, because his doctor insisted that he keep off his feet for a while.

Dollar Dolors

Tennist Alice Marble quit her $1-a-year body-building job with OCD, explained that since Pearl Harbor it had grown from a part-time to a "more than fulltime" job, had kept her from earning the living she has to make.

A U.S. judge in San Francisco signed a $3,022 judgment for failing to pay income tax (1929) against 61-year-old Author Peter B. Kyne, creator of "Cappy Ricks," the old gentleman who always fixed everything up.

Norman Hartnell, Ltd., the much publicized couturiers who designed Queen Elizabeth's gowns for her visit to the U.S. in 1939, were fined $2,400 in London for breaking England's wartime laws limiting fur sales.

Parents of the late mush-mouthed Comic Jo -who were bequeathed a third of his $100,000 estate-settled out of court a suit they had brought against his widow, charging that she was extravagant in buying a $9,579 marble crypt.

New York's ex-State Supreme Court Justice Edgar J. Lauer and wife Elmo Lauer, who was given three months in jail in 1939 for smuggling, sued an insurance company for $5,604.50 as indemnity for the loss of a trunk. The trunk, they declared, contained eleven neckties worth $10 apiece, six hand-embroidered voile drawers worth

$25 apiece, a dozen crepe-de-chine-and-lace drawers, worth $18 to $25 each, a pair of silk bloomers worth $15 to $18, "one dozen most exquisitely embroidered satin step-ins" worth $18 to $40 apiece, other costly mentionables.

Shadows Before

Election clerks in Chicago's 26th Precinct, 12th Ward, were not surprised by a write-in vote found on one Senatorial primary ballot. The beneficiary: General Douglas MacArthur.

Will Rogers Jr., 30-year-old son of the late cowboy humorist, entered the Congressional race in California's 16th District.

Oratorical Gerald L. K. Smith, onetime Huey Long lieutenant and veteran of political wack-movements, said he was thinking of running for the Senate from Michigan as a booster of Father Coughlin (see p. 64).

Contest

Enlightener Paul Joseph Goebbels decreed the merry month of May "Politeness Month," ordered the holding of competitions in the display of good humor.

Ginger Rogers' mother makes her debut as an actress in her daughter's next picture. Mother's role: her daughter's mother.

Given:

To Al Smith: an embroidered map of Korea, shaped like a mu goong wha*; by 20 Koreans.

To the children of Brazil's Petropolis, in celebration of President Getulio Vargas' 59th birthday: a cake, ten feet high, 26 feet in diameter, supporting a sugar-and-dough bust of the President. Among the ingredients: 1.200 dozen eggs, 25 bags of flour, 25 bags of sugar, 12 Ib. of butter, 52 quarts of milk, eleven quarts of currant syrup, five bottles of rum, 7 Ib. of sugar plums.

To Washington Post Publisher Eugene Meyer, caught with his pince-nez down after Jesse Jones shook him loose from them: a new pair; by his newspaper staff.

Coming Out

In London Princess Elizabeth, turned 16, made her debut by entertaining 450 officers and men of the Grenadier Guards, who have appointed her their Colonel m Chief.

Deglamorization of the week was performed by an alert news photographer at Sun Valley, who caught the handsome face of Cinemactress Norma Shearer registering desolation after she had missed a clay pigeon (see cut).

Uniformity

Home from the wars was Naval Air Hero Lieut. Edward H. O'Hare. Summoned to Washington with his bride of seven months, he soon learned why: to receive decorations from President Roosevelt.

Australian Airman Harold Gatty, navigator of the Winnie Mae on its record-breaking round-the-world flight with the late Wiley Post in 1931, was given a new job in Melbourne: Director of Air Transport with the U.S. Army Air Corps. Gatty was also made an honorary group captain.

Sally Rand's husband of four months, Rodeo Performer Thurkel Greenough, joined the Army. Object: the cavalry.

The War Department refused Fascistic, high-domed Lawrence Dennis the captain's commission he was after in the Army's special police force. Dennis blamed "newspaper publicity."

Lieut. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. turned up in Britain from action in the north Atlantic, assumed "official duties" with the U.S. Naval forces there.

* Korea's national flower

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