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Show Li I :ll'',"'-'''"iL-. .I A'm J'orc Heartbeat: The Bijj Parade: Ted Lewis, wJio makes $5,000 a week, still asking audiences if THEY are happy . . . James J. Walker, the town's former ' mayor looking healthier, ruddier and gayer than most of the citizens . . . Lee Shubert, the theater-owner, being teased by a dramatic critic he barred for four years, and Shubert retorting: "Gwan, I made you famous!" fa-mous!" . . . The critic made him Ave million praising Hcllzapoppin. . . . Charlie Butterworth, who came from Hollywood just to kill some time appearing in summer stock and winding up with $1,300 a week doing it . . . Larry Clinton, the orchestar, who will drop his baton to resume arranging more do-ra-me in it Main Strmemoranda: Howz about a "U" campaign? U as In Unity? . . . Jimmy Gleason plays the role of a fight manager for the sixteenth six-teenth time In "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" . . . What's his contract written on a towel? . . . Many Wall Street houses are shuttering their uptown branches. Bum ticker trouble, no doubt . , . F.D.R. will see "Sgt. York,'4 the film and the I hero, in person at the White House on the thirty-first . . . J. T. Evans invites Wheeler and Lindbergh to speak in Nashville and suggests they bring along Lord Haw Haw as their announcer . . . When Victor Emanuel's Eman-uel's race-horses run certain White Houscrs always bet a tenner across the board. One horse is "Omission" another "Lustrous." www Manhattan Murals: The Vs on walls and places in Yorkville, and the three husky Broadway guys who invaded that Nazi-infested sector shouting: "Three dots and a dash!" . . . Military cops stopping soldiers on Broadway with an open tie or unbuttoned shirt and making them look snazzy . . . The Times Square street salesman who peddles "gold" watches "in excellent running order" or-der" for ten cents each. A'ofrs of a New Yorker: Movie Actor James Stewart is supposed to have had one side of his forehead sunburned one day at camp because of the overseas cap he wore. Next day he wore the cap on the other side. The Top Sarge asked him what's the idea? . . . Without thinking, Stewart replied: "I did it to even up my sun tan." "Stewart," was the reply, "we do not expect photographers." One night John Edgar Hoover, the G-Whizzer, was telling some of us something off the record about a Nazi agent, who is posing as a de- cent American business man. "Gosh," one of us said. "How did you find THAT out?" "We've got a louse in his clothes," was the retort. Orchestra Leader Ray Block overheard over-heard it the other night ... A kibitzer-communist was trying to give his opinions in a war argument. argu-ment. "WeH," he said after he thought he scored a point, "how would you like to have me on your side now?" "I'd rather," was the snapper, "have appendicitis." A radio smallie tired of playing anonymous stooge to a famed comic and wanted his own show. The writer writ-er he consulted advised him he wasn't big enough to carry a show, that nobody ever heard of him . . . "That's his fault," mourned the ham, referring to the star, "he's not satisfied to get most of the money. mon-ey. He takes the best laughs and all the publicity. All I get is obscurity." ob-scurity." The. writer mowed him down . . . "Obscurity is right," he said, "and now you want to invest your time and money in it." If Goering Is actually In the clink-eroo clink-eroo it's what a lot of insiders expected. ex-pected. Hitler had no love for Fatso. Fat-so. He needed him, because Goering Goer-ing had a big drag in certain quarters quar-ters . . . But being a sissy, Adolf hated Goering's Tarzan manner. He burned when Fatso showed up for meeting, medals rattling and his uniform glittering like Lucius Bee-be's Bee-be's Sunday overalls . . . Also, Hitler Hit-ler was tickled when Dimitrov let i Goering have it at the Reichstag ! fire trials . . . Dimitrov, one of ! the accused, turned on Goering in court and accused him of being the firebug . . . Goering's sputtering convicted him in tho minds of the reporters present. And they say Hit- lcr laughed fit to kill. j Once a girl reporter from the U.S. gave Goering a sharp pain in the neck . . . She was Mildred Gil-: Gil-: man, once of the Journal . . . When ! Goering granted her an interview, he fixed up his office with props to i show her how he lived on raw meat j and such. He even included a leop- ; ard which would prove he was so tough he needed wild animals for pets . . . But Miss Gilman did not, as expected, scream for heir nd try to get. away from the leopard. She upset Goering's tough-boy pitch by fondling the fer-cious thing. |