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Show l IrHlfOfri : Man About Town: The Broadway Spotlight: It'll be denied, but certain key military reserves re-serves have been ordered to stand by. . . . Have the intelligence services serv-ices checked the report that the attacks on the U. S. (in Paris) by Carlo Aprato and in Rome by Rosa Fublni are by people of the same name that handled key positions as U. S. employees In OWI (in New York) during the war? The gambling gam-bling on gold by Greek officials is a scandal. . . . Now that the state department de-partment has offered its records for congressional inspection, the file on the not-so-Grand Mufti will be aired. Brothers, it's a beautl . . . How truzit that the Old Met will be replaced by a combined opry house and television center? ... El Punko Joe Kamp sends most of the anti-nomination anti-nomination telegrams to members of congress. How about his federal court trial! anyhow? Add trick names for models: Izal Wright. How cute can yez get? . . . We also hear there's a new gel around called Moanan Lowe. Oh, now looka here! Manhattan Murals: The doorman of lip-decorated El Borracho, who in the daytime manufactures embroidered em-broidered lingerie. His name is Marco, the owner of the V & D Machine Ma-chine Embroidery Co. at 1503 Lexington. Lex-ington. . . . The gorjiss lacquered blonde (on the public libree steps) darning a pair of sox. . . .The beautiful beau-tiful 5-year-old girl being led up Vth avenue by a pair of Russian wolfhounds, wolf-hounds, both taller than she. . . .The spellbound kids watching the poster men paste up the three-sheets for the circus. . . . The kerrickter (male, we think) walking along Vth In the rain with a green bumber-ihoot bumber-ihoot ulzo orange rubbers. . . . The old wooden chair against the wall (backstage at the Adelphi theatre on W. 54th street) which is never touched by actors or stagehands. It belonged to a beloved old stagehand who recently went Upstairs. . . . Delightful De-lightful sensayuma on the banana-stand banana-stand sign on 3rd avenue: "Please don't hurt my peelings!" Winchellebrities: Andrei Gro-myko Gro-myko (the furriner) having his boots polished by a Sixth avenue ave-nue monocle'd bootblack. . . . Gene Tierney (who broke her best toe) limping glamorously into the Stork club. . . . Ruth Etting being pinned against the Broadhurst theater by autograf-ters, autograf-ters, who do not recognize Mrs. Bing Crosby with her. Midtown Vignette: Her name Is Elizabeth Laus. ... Liz has been working for 23 years over at the RKO publicity department, now in Radio City. . . . During those 23 years she watched time slip fun on the fingers of co-workers. . . . Seemed as if somebody was always getting married or having some kind of a party, and they were always al-ways receiving presents. . . . But none of these things ever happened to her and to make life a little tougher she was sole support of an aged mother and an ailing sister. ... So what happened, fergood-, fergood-, nessakes, get to the point! . . . Oh, stop strippin' yer gears. . . .That's what I was just getting around to. . . . Harry Mandel (the chief publicity pub-licity guy there) decided to do something about Liz. ... A big surprise sur-prise poddy was chucked for her. . . . And signs were all over the place reading "We Love Liz!". . . . And she is still very busy counting her gifts. Gimbel's ads are so widely copied that the famed department depart-ment store now syndicates them (for a fee) to 125 stores around the country. ... Is Joe Kennedy slated for the top treasury post? . . . The federal victories over Talmadge and John L. Lewis remind you why it is called "the strong arm of the law." No one Is low enough to avoid the reach. The. Late Watch: Several of tht Broadway war babies are dying. Concessionaire Ellis just purchased the "400" club equipment for 35 Gs. ... An unconfirmed rumor has the Brass Rail group negotiating . . . The Aquarium, which has tried everything from top name bands to what-not, will become a playland and bazaar with independent concessions con-cessions of hot dogs, juke boxes and other Coney features. . . . One joynt is folding owing the U. S. tax collector collec-tor about 80 Gs. He got away with it the last time, too. . . . Unemployment Unemploy-ment is up 5 per cent over a year ago. . . . Top drawer Washington newshawks are agreed that confrere con-frere Tris Coffin not only can commentate com-mentate but is one of the few who can write! He shifts from CBS (as its U. S. senate gallery observer) to the American Broadcasting staff. Lady Iris Mountbatten, great-grandotter great-grandotter of QueeD Victoria, shelves her title to become a working gel at Don Pallini's dance studios. . . . Wall Street-ers Street-ers are still chortling at a gazette's ga-zette's financial department, which indexed the stock market quotes under "Amusements" on pages 18-19. |