This week Los Angeles Timesman William Mellors Henry, a journalistic institution in Southern California, took over a thrice-weekly Sunkist Orange program as substitute for gaudy, gossipy Hedda Hopper, now on vacation. Sobersided, hearth-loving Substitute Henry did not babble of cinema doings as had Miss Hopper. He prepared his newfangled columnar script by chatting long-distance with heterogeneous folk all over the world, setting down their impressions on matters frivolous and cosmic.
Among those grilled to make Henry copy: a friend in Lisbon, Ambassador Grew in Japan, a Mrs. Murphy stymied in Agua Caliente, Mexico, because she could not show she was a U.S....
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