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Lunchroom Proprietor H. B. Clifford collected the kiss Paulette Goddard had promised the man who brought the most aluminum to her door. It lasted 45 seconds, by the stop watch of Cecil B. De Mille. Running comment was provided by Mrs. Clifford: "You old fool. . . . What's an old man like you doing this for? . . . He never kissed me like that. . . . Cliff! You stop that! (De Mille: 'Time.') . . . You come right on home. . . . And wipe off your mouth!" ∙ ∙ Errol Flynn whacked Columnist Jimmie Fidler in a nightclub, claimed Mrs. Fidler wounded him in the ear with her fork. The row was over Fidler's cracks about the movie industry, it Meanwhile attorneys for Flynn and Wife Lili Damita are arranging a property settlement, with a separation in the offing. ∙ ∙Bing Crosby practiced a week for a try at Rigoletto with the San Francisco Opera, decided it wasn't his field. ∙ ∙ Sonja Henie was finally sworn in as a U.S. citizen. ∙ ∙ Reporting that she had been booed in Rio, on the street, at the opera door and on the stage as Tosca, Grace Moore said the booers were a Nazi-Fascist claque led by an Italian opera star whom she declined to name. ∙ ∙ 20th Century-Fox hired Salvador Dali to stage a special scene—a nightmare sequence showing "what runs through the mind of an inebriate."
Lilies of Field
"I don't know what is going to happen to me," declared one of the U.S.'s wealthiest citizens. "I happen to have been left a great deal of money [about $150,000,000]. I don't know what is going to happen to it, and I don't give a damn." Speaking was Publisher Marshall Field III, who made the remarks as he talked hopefully of great social reforms after the war. Next day he looked at his words in cold newspaper type, decided to clear up a point. He would be "willing to risk the fortune in some new order," he explained, but: "Naturally I will make every reasonable effort to protect my money." Concerning the nature of the "new order," he said that he trusted the political powers-that-be to work things out by themselves.