Bows

Princess Margaret, 18, faced her first trip outside the Empire next fortnight: a hop to Amsterdam, where she would officially represent her folks at Juliana's investiture.

Singer Jane Fromain was finally back on her feet, and looking in the 'pink (see cut). She sang without crutches--in a New Jersey nightclub--for the first time since the plane she rode crashed at Lisbon, Portugal, back in 1943.

To be named in honor of the late Fiorello La Guardia: streets in Tel Aviv, Lyon, and Wroclaw, Poland, a hospital in Foggia, Italy, and a school in Prague.

Renamed in honor of the late Mahatma Gandhi: a public square in Rio de Janeiro. The old name had honored Getulio Vargas, once president and boss, now the opposition.

A Manhattan showman decided to rename his theater after Broadway & Hollywood's late, free-spending Writer-Producer Mark Hellinger.

The greatest playwright of the past 25 years, decided 500 theatrical people polled by Theatre Arts magazine: Eugene O'Neill. The best cinema writer: Robert Sherwood. The top stage performance of the past quarter-century: Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina. Running a hairbreadth second: Laurence Olivier in Oedipus. The best cinema performance: Charles Chaplin in Monsieur Verdoux. Running second again: Olivier in Henry V.

Rita Hayworth, who only a fortnight ago had been chosen Embroidery Queen of 1948 by the Embroidery Merchants Association, was voted Dish of the Year by the waiters at the Concord Hotel of Kiamesha Lake, N.Y.

Bonds

In Los Angeles,"after three years of marriage, Dick Powell, 44, baby-faced crooner turned cinema tough, and June Allyson, 24, baby-faced cinemingenue, adopted a two-month-old baby girl.

In Rome, after eight footloose months of going around together, Tyrone Power and Linda Christian decided to postpone their wedding until Tyrone finished his location work on a new movie. Announced reason for the delay: "They will have more time for their honeymoon when the studio work is over."

In Santa Monica, Calif., after nearly seven years of marriage, Cinemactress Jean Wallace, 25, who used to sing in nightclubs, sued Cinemactor Franchot Tone, 43, who used to be married to Joan Crawford, for divorce. But they planned to fly to Paris this month anyway to play opposite each other in a new movie.

In Manhattan, after 21 months of his sixth marriage (to Novelist Kathleen Winsor) and two noisy weeks of charges & countercharges, an idea occurred to Clarinetist Artie Shaw: "It's gotten so you've even got to be awfully careful of the kind of girl you go out with these days."

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