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Just back from Europe with fourth wife Mary and the corrected first draft of his new novel, Across the River and into the Trees, Ernest Hemingway got off a newsy note to Manhattan Columnist Leonard Lyons: "Mary broke her [left] leg in two places, skiing like a damned champion at Cortina [in Italy]. Last year it was the right leg ... We had good duck and goose shooting, and Venice and Paris were both as fine as ever. Am a boy with five home towns now-Paris, Venice, Ketchum [Idaho], Key West and Havana...
...television audience . . . Unless [his] remarks and gestures conform to decency in the future, the Journal Co. will refuse to carry him further." Variety headlined, CBS OUT ON A GODFREY LIMB, and warned that industry-wide censorship might result. Urging Godfrey to "pipe down a little," New York Herald Tribune Columnist John Crosby wrote: "I hate to align myself with the forces of prudery, but I can't quite see myself coming out four-square for scatology...
Pausing briefly between play dates, Actress Tallulah Bankhead told the New York World-Telegram and Sun's Columnist Ward Morehouse about the trials & tribulations of touring the U.S. in Noel Coward's Private Lives: "I've now played Private Lives everywhere except under water. We've been doing remarkable business. Got $25,000 the week before Christmas playing in Alabama, but, oh God, some of my relatives nearly drove me crazy ... In playing this part through the South I found myself getting, oh, so Southern-if Noel could have caught...
Movie Gossipist Louella O. Parsons gently chided a colleague, Columnist Jimmy Fidler, for writing a nationally syndicated piece assailing the high number of Hollywood divorces: "Now, Jimmy, after all, for a man who has been married four times and divorced three, your haranguing against the broken marriages of Hollywood is pretty silly...
...Johnson measure as an effort to set up a "commissar of the morals of the American people." A Johnston Office spokesman called it a "police state bill." Chairman Roy Brewer of the Motion Picture Industry Council described it as "the first step toward totalitarianism." In the Los Angeles Mirror Columnist Florabel Muir asked: "I 'wonder how many U.S. Senators could pass a purity test?" In a column titled "Look Who's Talking!" the Hollywood Reporter's William R. ("Billy") Wilkerson pointed out that "Parnell Thomas is in jail for stealing Government funds . . . Andrew May is in jail...