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Show Hi New lorfe Heartbeat: Silhouettes About Town: Fannie Hurst, the newest dramatic critic, has listeners wondering. Was that a slip or a slap when she referred to the male star of a new comedy as "the leading lady"? . . . Rex Ingram, using a 44th street drug-store drug-store doorway (as shelter during the drenching rains) even if he did play De Lawd in "Green Pastures." . . . Gromyko has been buying N. Y. houses for the Russian delegates and Bob Hawk wonders if the windows win-dows will have Iron curtains. ... A swank men's shop in Miami Beach is being sued by a jewelry firm there, which claims it owns the name Swank. Isn't it a word in the dictionary? Broadway Torch Song: (Bj Don VVahn) : So in the dusk I light a cigaret. And read a scrapbook filled with slender rhymes. And what is there to reckon or regret? When one has been in love with other times? . . . This is the price that children chil-dren always pay. Who cannot cope with times that twist and change. Who chant the golden songs of yesterday. . . . Before the world grew perilous and strange. . . . There are new inns with strangers at the door. There are new songs that I could never learn. Where are the silken garments that I wore? Where are the fires that had so long to burn? . . . Here in the lovely dusk I sit apart. . . . And soothe the ghosts that sob within my heart. The fancy quill pens on the desk of each U. S. Supreme court Justice Jus-tice are "Made in England." . . . Perhaps Mrs. Truman really wanted want-ed to see a Demmy congress elected. elect-ed. She made a contribution of ten bux to the Dem. Nat'l Comm. . . . If the ban on parking here spreads, it'll be a misdemeanor to take your car out of the garage! . . . The Bill Robinsons expect a little Bo-jangles. Bo-jangles. He's way past 60. . . . Bricker, who hopes to be the 33rd president, has his offices on the 33rd floor in Columbus. ... It isn't a handful of sleeping pills that always al-ways kills pill-takers. It's taking one at a time that keeps you from waking up one day. It takes up too much space to explain that one. Just don't take any if you care about living. New York hotelmen expect walkouts walk-outs again after New Year's unless they get taller pay and a 40-hour 40-hour week. ... A youthful movie star is marrying a fellow she thinks is rich. He thinks she is loaded with coin, too. What a shock both will get when the rent is due. . , . Many wealthy Cubans (and Yanks there) have fled to New York and Miami because of the many kidnaps. kid-naps. The ransomers collected oodles, already. . . . Furs may come down in price again. One big drop recently another expected. . . . Worm has turned dep't: Now wholesalers whole-salers are phoning cafes, restaurants restau-rants and hotels asking what they need! The National Press Club (board of governors) issued a memo reading: "Halt banging of glasses with spoons, belting walls with poo cues and other childish actions." ... A Long Island town (where the Bund ran tnings) has changed all Nazi street names back to American. Too late. . . . Richard Rich-ard Alton, a doorman at the Winter Garden, Is listed in the Chicago Social Register! The Press Box: Harry Hopkins' Hop-kins' widow, Louise, may become Mrs. Winston Fros't. He's the Mid-dleberg, Mid-dleberg, Va., barrister. . . . Bing Crosby now discovers his transcription transcrip-tion victory has its drawbacks too. Petrillo's new transcription scale will shave Der Bingle's profits in half. . . . There has been an epidemic epi-demic of window-breaking in side street parked cars (at night), the work of vandals. . . . Ginger Rogers' Rog-ers' press agent has a terrific job to keep newsmen "away" from her. . . . The rehearsal of a renowned re-nowned radio program was interrupted inter-rupted when a former vocalist dashed in and told the star of the show: "If I ever catch you near my wife again, I'll split your skull!" . . . Alan Gale hopes he chokes if it didn't ackchelly happen. A reporter, re-porter, he alleges, went up to an exec at an ad agency and said: "Do you think the advertising business is as overrated as 'The Hucksters' paints it?" "I dunno," shrugged the ad exec, "I can't read." Sounds In the Night: At the China Doll: "Florida and California may fight over who grows the biggest oranges but Missouri certainly produces pro-duces the biggest lemons." ... At the Latin Quarter: "She had a face that would stop a clock. I know, because be-cause I threw one at her." ... At I Gracie Allen's: "The first thing 1 notice about a man is whether George is around." ... At the Stork: "Inflation is what turns a dollar into a question mark." . At Weyne's: "Nowadays dollars-to-doughnuts is an even rrrjnov het," |