Friends & Relatives

King Peter of Yugoslavia and Princess Alexandra of Greece turned their dark eyes toward their excellent wedding photographer in London with the ease of any assured young couple whose assured relatives & friends are standing by.

Governor Earl Warren of California saw his three-week-old grandson for the first time during an Eastertide family get-together in Oakland, and was excellently photographed with young James Lee Warren. James Lee's dad: 24-year-old Marine Lieut. James Warren.

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, to the surprise of jaws-ajar M.P.s guarding his London headquarters, admitted a casual visitor from the ranks, a buck private who simply said: "I'd like to see the General, if he's not too busy. Tell him I'm from Abilene, Kansas." The private was 23-year-old Walter Thorpe, once a hand on the Abilene farm owned by the General's brother. After 20 minutes of amiable talk about Kansas, the wheat crops and the Army, the General wrote a note to prove that it really happened: "Dear Thorpe: I'm delighted that, as a fellow citizen of Abilene, Kansas, you called at my office to see me today. Sincerely, Dwight D. Eisenhower."

Lieut. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., slightly wounded at Palermo and returned to the U.S. from far-ranging destroyer duty, took command of a patrol vessel after making "a very creditable record" at a subchaser training school in Florida.

Celebrants

Charles Evans Hughes observed his 82nd birthday by taking his daily Washington constitutional with Mrs. Hughes, receiving newspapermen. Said he: "I am as well as can be reasonably expected at my time of life. I am living quietly, and trying to be as cheerful as possible in this war-torn world." He refused to keynote the Republican convention because (since retired Chief Justices can be called for work in the circuit courts) he is still an official magistrate of the Federal bench.

Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary. It was also Mrs. Ford's 77th birthday. Mr. Ford spiced his anniversary week with a motor-company promotion (to an executive vice-presidency: his grandson, 26-year-old Henry Ford II) and a personal repudiation (of demagogic Gerald L. K. Smith, who had publicly declared that his brand of nationalism was like Ford's). Said potent Ford Spokesman Harry H. Bennett: "I want to state definitely for Mr. Ford, Charles A. Lindbergh, and myself, if and when Mr. Smith ever attempts to include us with his supporters, nothing is farther from our intentions."

Thomas Alva Edison's edifying and profitable kinetoscope celebrated a quiet, wartime soth anniversary with a national day's box office of about $3,000,000. Its first box office, in a converted Broadway shoe store, on the Saturday evening of April 14, 1894, sold $120 worth of admissions. Since then the movies have developed in many directions. Last week's sourest note in the movie business was struck when:

George P. Slcouras, big Eastern movie exhibitor, was reported to have remarked that in wealthy, suburban Greenwich, Conn., the box office was suffering from residents who passed up the movies for "running around with each other's wives and husbands, playing bridge, and stopping at the 19th hole."

Entertainers

Ed ("The Perfect Fool") Wynn reported to the New York Herald Tribune that his foolery had found its perfect audience--among the wounded at U.S. Army hospitals. "I didn't see how they could laugh. ... I took along some of my inventions, like the pole eleven feet four inches long, to be used for people you wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole . . . and the cigaret lighter--when you push down on a little wheel an arrow-jumps up and points to the nearest guy with matches. ... I walked out on the stage in one of my silly hats and asked the colonel, 'Say, have you seen the morning papers?' and the colonel answered, 'No, what's in them?' and I cracked 'My lunch, and I'm getting hungry!' It was the greatest kick in my entire career."

Jascha Heifetz, in Manhattan, returned an old friend's favor by making a limited recording. The selection: Mairzy Doats. The favor: his ex-manager's gift of a rare type of pencil sharpener greatly desired by the violinist. The accompanists: 57 members of the A.T. & T. Bell Symphonic Orchestra. Said Mrs. Heifetz: "Jascha can play a much hotter fiddle than that!"

Errol Flynn, cinema swashbuckler, buckled under the effect of a right to his cheek at a party at Sonja Henie's Hollywood place. The winner: Dan Topping, Sonja's husband, millionaire sportsman and Marine captain. Hollywood rumor held that Topping vanished after the punch, that Flynn spent the rest of the evening trying to get him within reach. Said Flynn later: "I'm not quite sure what caused it. ... Since he's an old and very good friend he would have to hit me in the other eye before I ever hit him back. ... It was just a case of boys being boys I guess, or maybe he was just celebrating a Russian Easter. I can't think of anyone I'd rather be hit by."

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