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Show By L. L. STEVENSON Around the Town: Hildegarde. the glamour girl of cafe sophisticates of two continents, with her flaxen head buried in her hometown Milwaukee Journal, feverishly skimming the society columns at a Times Square out-of-town news stand . . . Tripping along Park avenue, Mildred Bailey who has turned the ultra, ultra patrons of Ruban Bleu into hepcats and nightly conducts jam sessions in the confines , of the patent leather walls . . . Ezra Stone and Keenan Wynn, two of the younger theater fry, arguing over who picks up the check in a lobster eatery . . . Lyn Murray, music man, driving a new shiny car, his dachshund leaning out of a window and taking, the air . . . A mounted cop seeing his sergeant approaching and exclaiming, "Here comes the enemy." This and That: A friend who keeps in touch with such matters, informs me that earnest drinkers now avoid bad results by taking vitamin B . . . Or vitamin B Complex, which includes in-cludes various vitamins and nicotinic nico-tinic acid . . . It's not known whether wheth-er the vitamins or the nicotine prevents pre-vents the jitters . . . Alice Gall, waitress in the Hawaiian room of the Hotel Lexington, is one of the town's best-known roller skaters and writes a column on roller rinks for a New York Sunday newspaper . . . She recently invented a hula dance on roller skates . . . Moss Hart has purchased "Prisoner's Base," a play by Edward Teledano . . . The playwright play-wright is the young actor who, under un-der the name of Edward Trevor, took Victor Mature's role in "Lady in the Dark," while Mature was convalescing con-valescing from an appendicitis operation. op-eration. Addenda: James Snyder, the first camera man to photograph the Dionne quints, is searching army camps for perfect physical specimens speci-mens to be used as models for pictures pic-tures in his forthcoming health books to be published by MacMillan . Those selected will get double rates for posing a nice bit of -dough for the $21 a month lads . . . Clara May Olney, who recently opened the third in her group of Olney Ol-ney Inns, gets her suckling pigs from' the Maryland farm of her friend, Harold Ickes . . . Strip Teaser Margie Hart has one great j ambition to win a blue ribbon at a county fair for one of the pedigreed pigs she raises on her 500 acre farm near Mathrip, Mo. Thus far she's had no luck. Short Story: He's the chap with the golden voice who parlayed the 11 simple words, "How do you do, ladies and gentlemen, how do you do?" into a meteoric radio career. But having reached the top, there was an encounter with the bright lights of Broadway and bottled stuff that threw him into obscurity. Followed Fol-lowed a long, hard absence from the ether waves. Then a comeback, come-back, slow and wearisome at first. Now he has a daily program on WNEW and a pleasant little cottage on Long Island sound where he lives quietly and contentedly taking care of his garden or strolling in the fields with his two dogs. And so definitely is he through with that which caused his downfall, he won't even walk on Broadway if he can detour. His name is Norman Brokenshire. Short Pieces: An unusual venture is operated by two young men who took seriously those Christmas cartoons car-toons about poppa playing with the kid's toys . . . They have a place on East Ninety-fourth street where for an hourly charge, adults can play to their hearts' content with a maze of electric trains, tracks, switches, lights, towers etc. Saxophonist-maestro Jimmy Dorsey, who is said to be able to hold his breath longer than any other instrumentalist, instrumental-ist, has willed his lungs to an eastern medical college for clinical reasons. Remarks: Don't be envious ol your neighbor because he has a bigger big-ger car than yours," cautions Gertrude Ger-trude Berg. "Be thankful you have a car that is bigger than someone else's" . . . "Dictators," observes Hildegarde, "are leaders who demo-gag demo-gag the people" . . . "The trouble with the world today," says Bandleader Band-leader Joe Reichman, "is that too many people grumble and are hateful hate-ful instead of being humble and grateful." |