All in Favor

Milliner Lilly Dache arrived in Manhattan with the breathless news that the women of Paris are less interested in hats than in men. The three males who crop up most in conversation when smart Parisiennes let their hair down: World Citizen Garry Davis (admired for his "courage and . . . youthful hope"), Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre (for his "unsweetened approach to modern life") and British Cinemactor James Mason ("He is just the 150% man, with ego, contrariness, even cruelty").

Atlantic-shuttling Lady Astor, visiting Jesse Jones in Houston, dropped in on Fort Worth, found its huge Consolidated Vultee Aircraft plant the thrill of her trip. She would much rather pitch in and work there, she said, than in the British plane factory where she did a wartime stint.

In Cairo, at a 200-acre fair displaying Egypt's latest advances in science, technology and social welfare, the recently divorced and remarried Princess Fawzia and her sister, Faiza, turned up as unscheduled exhibits of the very best in Egyptian pulchritude (see cut).

Onetime Aquastar Eleanor Holm, due home this week from globe-trotting with husband Billy Rose, wrote to a Manhattan columnist about the wonders of world travel. Burbled Eleanor: "Rome . . . is in a class by itself . . . You meet people you know at every restaurant. Last night it was Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote; as we came into the hotel, Gregory Ratoff, and a few minutes ago, Ingrid Bergman . . ."

A Thousand Times No

In New York, Maestro Arturo Toscanini cheerfully put his wife aboard an airliner for Paris, announced that he would join her in Milan early next month. Would he fly, too? Said the maestro: "No, no, no! I will go on a boat."

Frances ("Peaches") Browning, who bloomed in the 1926 tabloids when, as a 15-year-old schoolgirl, she married 51-year-old Edward ("Daddy") Browning, decided to swear off. In California, she got her divorce from husband No. 4, had a ready answer for reporters who asked about a future marriage: "No--never, never again."

The South African Broadcasting Corp., a semi-official company under a race-conscious government, banned all recordings of Negro Actor-Singer Paul Robeson.

At a Denver airport, a nosy reporter cornered lanky Cinemactor James Stewart, about to board a plane for Hollywood with Traveling Companion Mrs. Gloria Hatrick McLean. Prodded about marriage rumors, Stewart said: "Well, I'm not going to get married." "To Mrs. McLean?" "No, I'm just not going to get married."

In a Manhattan speech to 600 college girls, cool, correct Actor-Director Sir

Cedric Hardwicke lumped radio and television with the atomic bomb. Declared Sir Cedric: "It is better to be killed in an explosion than to have the human mind gradually deteriorating in the home."

New Directions

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was photographed with Margaret Truman as the U.N. General Assembly began another session. She also answered a radio interviewer who wanted to know if the U.N. could ever work--Russia's attitude being what it is. Said she: when Republican John Foster Dulles heard that she was joining him on the U.S. delegation, he "felt the world was coming to an end." Last week he admitted that "he really rather likes me ... If miracles like that could happen, perhaps other miracles could happen."

In Beverly Hills, Tin Pan Alley's 54-year-old Songsmith Jimmie McHugh (I'm in the Mood for Love, Don't Blame Me) announced that he would marry Anita Lhoest, a 19-year-old blonde swimming champion.

Actor Ralph Bellamy, a hit in Broadway's Detective Story, explained why he had finally quit Hollywood. One day he went to see a producer about a part. "On the script it said, 'A charming but naive goof--a typical Ralph Bellamy part.' I turned it down and returned to New York."

General Jonathan M. Wainwright, hero of Bataan and Corregidor, beamed amiably from an ad promoting the sale of Pabst beer.

The Duke of Windsor crossed the Channel in a gale for a week's visit with his mother, Queen Mary, reached London looking less like a pin-neat fashion plate than a windswept and rather worn gentleman of 54 (see cut).

Slings & Arrows

It was a tough week for the brass. Navy Secretary John L. Sullivan was at home with virus X; General H. H. Arnold, retired Army Air Forces commander, was shaking off virus pneumonia in California; ex-Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal, suffering from "occupational fatigue," was in Bethesda Naval Hospital for "medical study and a physical checkup."

Also on the sick list: expectant Olivia de Havilland, more or less bedridden for three months, who had a relapse that will keep her bedded for at least four weeks; Wallace Beery, with a heart ailment; Bobo (Mrs. Winthrop) Rockefeller, hospitalized for an undisclosed complaint; Ambassador Lewis W. Douglas, whose physicians hoped they could save his left eye, which was pierced by a fish hook while he fished for salmon near Southampton.

In Arizona's Pima County, distemperate Westbrook Pegler, self-appointed journalistic watchdog, joined two neighbors in asking an injunction to stop the yowling and barking of another neighbor's four dogs. The plaintiffs charged that the barking dogs had twice bitten their servants.

Wealthy Novelist Taylor Caldwell, who has reaped royalties from a dozen bestsellers (plus a few fat movie sales), wondered plaintively if the game was worth the candle. Recounting for Tomorrow magazine the "agony and frustration and despair" of the 20 years in which she collected rejection slips while permitting herself "only one meal a day," she concluded: "I can only say that my health is permanently ruined, and my outlook on life permanently somber and depressed, because of those years of wretchedness." After a night in the Spokane jail and the payment of a $100 fine for disorderly conduct, Idaho's 71-year-old Democratic Representative Compton I. White complained that police had manhandled him, slammed him against a wall, ripped his coat sleeve and wrenched his back. It all began when he tried to turn down a parking ticket by claiming congressional immunity.

High-spirited Sister Elizabeth Kenny, whose method of treating infantile paralysis inspired a Hollywood tribute (Sister Kenny), felt that her method was not getting the proper recognition in her native Australia. She took off by air for the U.S., vowing to return "only if Australia calls for me."

In Paris, Wonder Boy Orson Welles, 33, was being sued for breach of contract by a French film producer who wanted $1,000,000, plus $33,000 allegedly advanced to Welles for making a picture. In Los Angeles, German Novelist Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front) went to court to get a $10,000 installment from Enterprise Productions for rights to his Arch of Triumph.

The former Ethel du Pont flew into Reno for a divorce on the day that husband Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. formally announced his candidacy for the late Sol Bloom's congressional seat from Manhattan.

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