People: People, Jun. 2, 1941

Reluctant to hide her light under a bushel of style traditions, trim-bodied Cinemactress Paulette Goddard tried to set a new Hollywood style by turning up for a formal dinner date in “evening shorts.” They were formalized by sequins and a decorous cape.

To churchgoers asking clemency for a wife murderer who had since got religion and stopped drinking, turkey-necked Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia declared: “I wish you Christian people would help me establish whipping posts for drunkards. A dressing down . . . in front of the Courthouses would make them quit this foolishness.”

Installed at last in the Hall of Fame (owner: New York University; place: The Bronx) was homespun, star-spangled Composer Stephen Collins Foster (My Old Kentucky Home, Old Black Joe), whose bust was unveiled with elaborate ceremonies and the blessings of many organizations, including ASCAP.

At Niagara Falls, Ont., rejuvenated Russian Rejuvenator Dr. Serge Voronovr, 74, and wife Gertrude, 28, entered the U.S. for permanent residence; in Santa Barbara, high-domed, German-born Biographer Emil Ludwig (Napoleon, Roosevelt), 60, and wife re-entered from Mexico under German and South African quotas, looked forward to U.S. citizenship. Meantime, in Chattanooga, Tenn., the World’s Christian Fundamentals Association plumped for the revocation of the citizenship of Albert Einstein, 62, on the ground that he is an atheist, and in Manhattan, Lady Mendl (Decorator Elsie de Wolfe), 84, awaited Congressional action on a bill that would restore the citizenship she renounced on her marriage to Sir Charles Mendl in 1926.

Mormon Jack Dempsey and his separated Baptist wife, Hannah Williams, got together to watch their older daughter, Joan, 6, make her first Communion as a Catholic.

For Beulah, motherless daughter of

Borden’s late, great Elsie, the nation’s

most feted cow, a reception and milk-tea

was given on the mezzanine of the Hotel Roosevelt in Manhattan.

Tough-writing Scenarist-Novelist Jim Tully (Beggars of Life, Shanty Irish) declared of the world situation: “It’s out of my line. But I think we’re going to hell. . . .”

In Chicago, General Charles Gates

(“Hell and Maria”) Dawes, 75, former Vice President who made the underslung pipe famous, quit smoking.

No. 1 All-Out for Britain Mobilizer Dorothy Thompson found Husband Sinclair Lewis (It Can’t Happen Here) mobilizing on the America First front.

From a Manhattan gutter 230 sparkling diamonds and rubies caught the eye of an honest laborer, who turned the brooch over to police. It had been dropped by longtime Metropolitan Opera Soprano Frances Alda.

Fed up with Paris, where she had hurt her ankle in the blackout and food was frightfully dear, Dressmaker Elsa Schiaparelli arrived by Clipper in New York

City—not as a visitor but as an immigrant.

Customers in Paris, she said, are scarce.

Income taxes leave Winston Churchill

£3,168 out of his £10,000 salary from the British Government. Tax experts figured his pay would have to be £266,960 to leave him £10,000 of his own.

Beaued nightly in Paris by Enlightener Paul Joseph Goebbels was blonde, full-mouthed, childlike French Cinemactress

Corinne Luchaire, 20 (Prison Without Bars), protegee two years ago of British Cinemaproducer Alexander Korda. Her father has been made publisher of Le Matin and Les Nouveaux Temps.

The Dionne Quintuplets, who despite coaching were not up to speaking English on a broadcast sponsored by Ontario’s tourist bureau, joined the Girl Guides Association.