New Directions

In Manhattan, where he is still playing Caesar one night and Antony the next, Sir Laurence Olivier was spending part of his offstage time taking singing lessons. His next job will be playing Captain Macheath in a movie version of The Beggar's Opera, his first serious singing role on either stage or screen.

Actress Gloria Swanson, 53, played a one-day stand in a new location: the budget dress department of a Manhattan store where she introduced her own design of spring dresses called "Forever Young," priced to sell for less than $20.

After winning $14,000 in a damage suit against wealthy Canadian Gold Man Duncan McMartin, who slapped his face in a Nassau hotel, Cinemactor Errol Flynn decided to buy a hotel of his own. The location: Jamaica, where he already owns a small island, a ranch and a plantation.

After Broadway's Billy Rose attended a party at the house of Cinemactress Joan Fontaine, Hollywood gossipists (with some subtle encouragement from the little showman himself) launched a new romance. Joan promptly sank it. Said she: "I threw a cocktail party and Billy Rose was there. That's all. I've never been out with him. Funny thing, he still thinks I gave the party for him . . ."

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