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Into her majority and with it some $3,900,000 came Brenda Diana Duff Frazier Kelly, onetime queen of the Manhattan glamor debs, now queen of a triplex apartment with Husband John ("Shipwreck") Kelly. Last week at least two of the newspapers that used to publicize all her doings in cafe society published the fact that her chief interest now, besides keeping house, is "having a family."

Producer George White, once the nearest thing to a successor to Florenz Ziegfeld, filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy in Los Angeles. The Scandals man was sure that he owed more than $100,000 to certain creditors, listed others with the notation "amount due unknown." Among his assets: a Rolls-Royce standing idle in storage.

Seventy-three-year-old "Physcultopath" Bernarr Macfadden was ordered by a Manhattan judge to pay his estranged wife, Mary, and two children $25,000 a year maintenance beginning Nov. 1, and meantime $26,000 in alimony arrears, past maintenance of the children, and support till November.

Coming Up

The faces of another generation looked out of two news photographs: 20-month-old Winston Churchill II striding boldly along a London street on a visit from the country was like a miniature edition of his famed grandfather. The young "Princess Alice" Roosevelt of the early 1900s reappeared in a picture of her daughter, Paulina Longworth, now suddenly a young lady of 17 making her debut.

Rights of Man

He made the rights of his fellow men plain to them, chivied them into seizing their freedom, and eventually they tossed him aside because they disagreed with his views on religion. Last week, nearly 150 years later, within a cobblestone's throw of Independence Hall, he was officially tossed aside all over again. A Philadelphia park commission decided that Tom Paine smelled like an atheist, was not 100% acceptable to all Philadelphians. So it refused to allow his admirers to set a statue of him in Fairmount Park. Tom Paine's pamphlets included The Age of Reason ("The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately"); The Crisis ("These are the times that try men's souls").

That Place

The next Tarzan picture, a Hollywood studio announced patriotically, will be

Tarzan Triumphs--"a story of the ape-man's defense of the British Empire against the Nazis in Deepest Africa." To reporters in Portland, Ore., Lana Turner confided: "Hollywood is not as bad as some writers picture it. We have the most dignified and refined and gentle manly people that you could find in the world."

Kudos

Champion to date of the 1942 season of honorary degrees is War Production Boss Donald M. Nelson. By this week he had four-from Harvard, Northwestern, Missouri, Pennsylvania Military College. Among others given honorary degrees last week: Mme. Chiang Kai-shek (in absentia), Raymond Gram Swing, Sumner Welles, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Frank Knox, Henry L Stimson, J. Edgar Hoover, Nicnolas Murray Butler.

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