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Princess Olga, put out of Yugoslavia in 1941 with her Naziphile husband Prince Paul, turned up in England from gamy Kenya Colony for a visit with her sister, the recently widowed Duchess of Kent. Paul stayed home, by request. Gypsy Rose Lee, stripteuse turned woman of letters, was busily writing a musi-comedy about a stripteuse turned woman of letters. Sir Yeshwant Rao Holkar, the fabulously wealthy, pleasure-loving Maharaja of Indore, was reported en route to the U.S. for "urgent medical attention." His U.S.-born ex-nurse and second wife, the former Marguerite Lawler Branyen, has been in the U.S. for kidney doctoring since May. Heiress Gloria ("Mimi") Baker Topping, pre-Brenda glamor deb, young mother of two, went off to Palm Beach to get a divorce from the tin-plate heir, Lieut. Henry J. ("Bob") Topping of the Naval Air Force. Dramatically handsome, wild-haired Blanche Oelrichs Thomas Barrymore Tweed (Poetess"Michael Strange"), second wife of the late John Barrymore, mother of Diana, said she would shortly divorce Socialite Lawyer Harrison Tweed, after 13 years. The marriage outlasted the late Arthur Brisbane's guess, who figured its life expectancy at ten years, bet $10,000 on it. Mrs. Mary Le Grand Jacob, widow of British Major General Arthur Le Grand Jacob, sister-in-law of Field Marshal Sir Claud Jacob, onetime Commander in Chief of the Indian Army, was fined £5 in Kingston, England, for "pretending to tell fortunes."
War Effort
King George cut down on fuel and light in Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle by: 1) limiting bathers to five inches of water in the tub (red and black warning lines were painted at the five-inch levels); 2) allowing only one light bulb to a bedroom; 3) forbidding the use of fireplaces in bedrooms except on doctors' orders. Shape-famed Rita Hayworth, ten pounds lighter after a high-gear tour of Army camps for the U.S.O., went into a Hollywood hospital with a physical breakdown. At the Army's air school at Miami Beach, Officer Candidate Clark Gable won the upperclassman's privilege of going to the movies. Mrs. Anne S. Leaver, 37-year-old sister of Major General Carl Spaatz, commander of the U.S. Air Force in Britain, enlisted in the WAACs as an auxiliary (same as private) in Philadelphia. Veteran News-photographer James H. ("Jimmy") Hare offered to the first U.S. flyer to bomb the Imperial Palace in Tokyo a "gold" medal the Mikado had once given him (it turned out to be brass.)