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RADIO STARS
Now, Jimmy Durante — he'd never hurt no This is the lady referred to on the left — the
body, would our Jimmy. Yet a poet of petite Madame Sylvia. This is the lady who
modern hexameters claims Schnozzle's gone might have her bank-roll sliced for annoying
and put his bee-u-teeful words of art to ill use. that lady on the left, Ginger Rogers.
against than suing. Take the case of the royal prince who was said to be a Russian spy. Maybe you'll recognize the name. Prince Matchabelli. He's famous for his perfumes.
Walter Winchell was the lad who put his foot into it that time. Most people think that Walter is careful to stay within the law and he has never been sued. And in a way they're right, for he has been sued only once for an item published in his column. And the only time he was sued for anything he said over the radio was this Matchabelli case.
THAT turned out to be a comedy of errors. On Xovem■ ber 18, 1931, the Xeic York Mirror published a story stating that Federal agents were looking into the activities of Prince Matchabelli. It further said that the Prince was not one of the eight native princes of Georgia in the Caucasus, and that he was suspected of being an agent of the Russian secret police.
The next day Walter Winchell mentioned over the radio something about Prince Matchabelli's activities. As a result. Prince Georges Matchabelli. his wife Princess Norine, and the Prince Matchabelli Perfumery Company launched suits against Walter Winchell. the American Tobacco Company, his sponsor, and the National Broadcasting Company. Their lawyer claimed that Winchell had called the Prince one of the world's most glamorous
masqueraders, a self-styled royalist and supreme agent of the Russian Cheka. And that he had described the perfume business as a racket.
The lawyer announced that an investigation was being made to determine how many people had heard Winchell's broadcast. When he found out he said he'd demand a dollar a head for each listener. This scheme proving slightlv impractical, he decided to sue instead for the nice, flat sum of $500,000.
Here's where the comedy of errors came in. Walter Winchell keeps a copy of every speech he ever makes over the radio. He proved to the astonished Prince and the astonished Prince's lawyer that he had defended, not attacked. Prince Matchabelli over the radio. What he had said was that he didn't believe the story in the Mirror was true, because Prince Matchabelli was so closely related to the Czar's family in Russia that it was impossible for him to be acting as a spy. When Prince Matchabelli heard that, he settled his suit with the Mirror out of court and dropped the suit against Walter Winchell.
NOT all lawsuits, of course, end so happily for all the parties concerned. Robert Gordon Duncan, of Portland, Oregon, had a habit of speaking his mind over the radio. He was the chap who called one man a "doggoned thieving, lying, plundering, {Continued on page 80)
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