People: The Working Class

Mrs. Perle Mesto, promoted from Washington’s reigning hostess to U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, sailed off to work with a shipboard farewell from 80 friends, including Mrs. Harry S. Truman and daughter Margaret, Chief Justice and Mrs. Fred M. Vinson and onetime Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Rohde. Amid the orchids, champagne and caviar, someone asked: “How does one address you, Mrs. Mesta—as Your Excellency?” Beamed the new diplomatiste: “Just call me Perle!”

On his summer vacation from prep school, Harold Lloyd Jr., 17, got a one-picture job acting for Sam Goldwyn. His role: a non-comic high-school boy. Already working in Hollywood, John Barrymore Jr., 17, got a look at his profile in the rushes of his first movie. Marveled he: “It’s amazing. I merely said some words while the camera was grinding, and it comes out acting.”

Having made her debut in a German film, Rosemary Murphy, 22, daughter of U.S. Ambassador Robert D. Murphy, went to work in a Berlin play.

Ex-Communist Spy Courier Elizabeth Bentley got a job in Chicago’s Mundelein College, teaching a familiar subject: political science.

On location in Durango, Colo., Cinemactress Anne Baxter panned for gold in the Las Animas River, found none, but lost her gold wedding ring in the process.

While Millionaires Bing Crosby and Bob Hope worried what an oil strike by one of their companies near Snyder, Tex. would do to their income taxes, a gusher shot up in the same area for Millionaire Henry Ford II.