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Seven-year-old Larry Simms, the "Baby Dumpling" of the cinema's Blondie & Dagwood series, demanded $118,000 damages from radio's Baby Dumpling, 22-year-old Leone le Doux (a she). Grounds: imitation.

Newport's waterworks slapped a lien on the two-million-dollar villa purchased last year by her mother for Torch Singer Gertrude Niesen, demanding $792 for excess water "used" at the villa between January and June. The pipes in the mansion had burst in February and poured out more than a million gallons. The waterworks also asked an $83 advance for the coming year.

New SEC reports showed that not James Cagney but Bing Crosby was the biggest money-maker among cinemactors in 1941. His take from pictures and records: $400,640. His radio earnings were unreported.

A bargain was offered in Manhattan: William Randolph Hearst's 12th-Century Spanish monastery, tastefully packaged in 10,400 crates, ready for delivery, at $19,000. Gimbel Brothers knocked it down from $50,000, for a quick sale. It cost the Lord of San Simeon more than $500,000 to get it here from Spain.

Back in Hollywood from selling war bonds in the northwest, Lana Turner, who had kissed each purchaser of $50,000 worth, declared after mature consideration: "A kiss at $50,000 really is pretty expensive. Believe me, it isn't worth it."

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