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Born. To Dorothy Lamour (nee Mary Leta Dorothy Slater), 31, Hollywood's No. 1 sarongstress ; and A.A.F. Major William Ross Howard III, 38, prewar Virginia lumbermill-owner, onetime Maryland state legislator: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: John Ridgely. Weight...
Heroine. Olga Tschechowa,* nee Knipper, born in the Russian Caucasus, fled in 1921 to Germany, where she became a cinema celebrity and ostensibly a great chum of Adolf Hitler. All during the war, said the Russians last week, she had really been a Russian spy, using her chauffeur to get through to Moscow the tiny, gold-covered notebooks in which she jotted the requests which Nazi bigwigs wanted her to put to Adolf. During the battle of Berlin, she hid in a bomb shelter, was rescued, in the best movie spy tradition, by a Red Army colonel...
Unfortunately, "Jazz Band Ball" and the blues have been replaced by a nickle serenade, and jazz no longer reigns at the Ken, nee Theatrical, Club. Next week this column will discuss the Savoy Cafe (before and after), and we're happy to say that there is an after at the Savoy with Frankie Newton opening there this coming Monday. Incidentally, the above mentioned PeeWee Russell will also soon be back in Boston: Sunday afternoon at the Jazz Society's concert in the Copley Terrace, 30 Huntington Avenue...
...view from the villa was superb. But Countess Edda Ciano, nee Mussolini, was not interested. "What I want most of all is that my case be settled one way or the other," she said. "There is nothing more unbearable than this waiting...
Little Waves from Overseas. To produce a compact instrument, small enough to be carried in a plane, that would handle the enormous power nee:'ed (surpassing that of the most powerful radio station), required a revolution in radio...