People, Aug. 28, 1939

Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis and Bride Hope Dare were invited to appear as sideshow freaks in Believe-It-Or-Not Ripley's Odditorium in Manhattan and at a New York World's Fair concession.

In the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette appeared the following advertisement:

PRIVATE PULLMAN CAR FOR SALE

There are four sleeping rooms. . . .

There is a dining room and a large lounge. . . .

It has many other conveniences like shower bath, radio and telephones.

The original cost of this car was just imder $100,000. Will sell for one-third of this sum if quick sale can be made.

The owner: Post-Gazette Publisher Paul Block, once publisher of seven papers, now of four.

While dapper, prolific Biographer Emil Ludwig was poking among historic relics in a Corsican museum, a bronze statue of Jerome Bonaparte, youngest of Napoleon's four brothers, toppled, cracked him smartly on the pate. Moaned Emil Ludwig: "I had too many things to say about Jerome ... in my book [Napoleon']. He has his vengeance now."

The Netherlands' fast-driving Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, madcap son-in-law of Queen Wilhelmina, went a-racing across a lake in his speedboat, crashed smack into a small motorboat, sank it. Into the water jumped Prince Bernhard, pulled out a wet father, three wet little children. When Netherlands newspapers got wind of the episode they promptly printed nothing about it, instead plastered their front pages with the first pictures of Papa Bernhard's two-weeks-old second daughter, Irene (see cut).

Vigorously pursuing Moral Re-Armament on the West Coast, MRA's Leader Frank Buchman made his most striking conquest to date—the "changing" of curvesome Mae West. Witnesses: Miss

West's pressagent, a photographer. Posed in her Hollywood apartment, Cinemactress West and Leader Buchman smiled happily, swapped compliments. Beamed Mae, billowy in pink negligee: "It is a wonderful work. ... I owe all my success to the kind of thinking Moral Re-Armament is." Gallantly responded Dr. Buchman: "You are a splendid character, Miss West. You have done wonderful work, too."

Then Cinemactress West suggested as a likely convert to MRA her coming costar, raffish W. C. Fields. "Give it to him in a bottle and he'll go for it," she told Dr. Buchman, promised, "If you reform Bill I'll let him win me in our next picture." But raucous, red-nosed Bill Fields proved recalcitrant. Said he: "I'll take anything in a bottle. But I don't need re-armament."

Ballerina Vera Zorina (real name: Eva Brigitta Hartwig), nimble-limbed star of I Married an Angel, announced that on her forthcoming trip to Europe she hopes to spend much of the time in the nude. In Chicago she has ordered a is-ft. canvas roof enclosure, on the Normandie a private sundeck. Said she: "It [sun bathing] has been wonderful for my health. My only difficulty [in Hollywood] has been with a nasty man in a red airplane."