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Eugene O'Neill revealed that he had sold his spacious, white-walled "Tao House"—across the bay from San Francisco. "I have to go East on business, but this has nothing to do with the theater," said the playwright, who during his seven year seclusion at "Tao House" (with his third wife, exactress Carlotta Monterey) has been struggling against a recurring ailment to complete his cycle of seven plays: A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed. No comment by O'Neill was reported on the news that a child was expected in August by his 18-year-old daughter Oona, dark-eyed fourth wife of recently indicted Charles Chaplin (TIME, Feb. 21).
Paul Whiteman, 313-lb. band leader turned 195-lb., Blue Network musical director, was observed by Manhattan Columnist Lucius Beebe "bolting" from the Blue for the 5:31 train to his Rosemont (NJ.) "Paul Whiteman Walking Horse Farm." There, noted Beebe, Whiteman keeps 150 pipes, 100 suits, 75 pairs of "costly, hand-tooled" town shoes, 24 pairs of riding boots, 15 saddles (one silver-mounted), one dozen staticless radios, enough phonograph records to make the planning of a disk-house no idle talk.
Libby Holman, blues-singing widow of the late tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds, asked the Manhattan trustees of her eleven-year-old son Christopher Smith Reynolds' $7,000,000 estate to release $435,183.57 for the purpose of building him a "suitable and attractive" house.