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appear the names of
prominent Orientals, and occasionally a Negro's, San Francisco's most
important society colyumist is Ethel Whitmire of the Hearst Examiner.
She is related to Publisher Hearst, was his mother's constant
companion for years. On the ChronicL— Mildred Brown is assisted by
Mrs. Oscar Sutro Jr. of the sugar-&-mining Sutros. Nearest to a
dictator is Agnes Duff Fenwick of the Scripps-Howard News, divorced
wife of Lumberman Hugh Fenwick. Los Angeles looks to Mrs. Juana Neal
Levy of the Times for social guidance. Hearst's Examiner has
"Cholly Angelo" (Mrs. Jean Loughborough) and gives prominent
bylines to Princess Marie de Bourbon, cousin of Spain's Alfonso.
Sh" tells most of her information to Mrs. Loughborough who
ghost-writes it for her. In the Examiner the cinema colony has its own
society department, run by Reine Davies (real name: Douras), sister of
Film Actress Marion Davies. Headline-of-the-Week In the New York Times:
OTTO KAHN PRAISES CAPITALIST SYSTEM
*The late Publisher Frank Andrew Munsey scrapped seven
Manhattan dailies during his career. *The estate of the late John Roll
McLean owns also the troubled Washington Post, now in receivership.
The Post's publisher, ousted last year, was John McLean's extravagant
son Edward Beale ("Ned''). Last week "Ned's" estranged wife, Evalyn
Walsh McLean, in hope of buying the Post for her
three children, was trying to raise $250,000 on her jewelry,
including the "unlucky," Sunday-supplement-famed Hope
Diamond.
