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Show fj 1 i New York Heartbeat: The Big Parade: Quentin Reynolds Rey-nolds telling chums the first thing he thought of when he saw the Hall of Mirrors (in the Palace of Versailles) Ver-sailles) was the opulent Broadway hamburger joints . . . Judy Garland Gar-land surrounded by fellers. We can remember all the way back to 1940 when she thought a beau was something a girl wore In her hair . . . Noel Coward before Cllppering to London the Humorlstocrat . . . Gertrude Lawrence putting aside her dignity and struggling with a plateful of spaghetti. Sallies In Our Alley: William Sa-royan, Sa-royan, Artie Shaw and another One of Those Guys were doing the town the other bitter cold night without hats ... "I wonder," wondered a wonderer, "why those birds never wear hats?" . . . "That's obvious," explained One Who Knows Them. "Hat-makers can't make them that size!" . . . Over at Ruby Foo'a Den they were panning a certain wlshy actor. "He speaks every line," someone meow'd, "as though it were carrying a wand" . . . Another An-other was auditioning before Vick Knight at NBC and was cautioned not to enunciate so severely . . . "How dare you!" screamed the Ham. "Ahfter ahl I didn't take die tlon lessons for nothing!" ... To which Vick cooed: "Are you sure?" New York Novelette! Her face, they said in Hollywood, was that of an angel and her honey hair was her halo ... A talent scout signed her up when she was elected Ski Queen of the Northwest . . . Her only stage experience was semi-pro stuff and when Hollywood learned that she got minor roles in B-minus flickers . . . She decided to chuck it and come to Broadway . . . After a long wait she met Marc Connelly. He introduced her to agent S. Lyons, who referred her to Max Gordon. Gordon was having trouble casting a leading role. "You're the type," he told her . . . "But I have very little experience," she said . . . "Well." he said, "you look good, and anyone any-one who looks that good can act" . . . Her reading of the part clinched it . . . Now that she is such a hit in "My Sister Eileen," Hollywood Holly-wood wants her back . . . But Jo Ann Sayers is a gal who likes to put a new twist to old routines. "No go." Sounds in the Night: In the Stork "cub": "She wears clothes as though she doesn't care who's looking" look-ing" ... In Club 18: "Is that a fur neck-piece she's wearing or a litter of pups?" ... In H. Johnson's: "You're looking well tonight. Who's your emoaimer? ' ... in tne Waldorf's Wal-dorf's Empire Room: "Wotta pair! A hat-check girl and a rubber-check guy!" ... At the Montparnasse: "Her face might not stop a clock, but it certainly keeps her phone from ringing." Innocent Bystander: The detention by the Gestapo in Berlin of the young United Press reporter, Richard Hottelet, is only the newest in a long series of indignities in-dignities to which American newspaper news-paper men have been subjected by the Axis powers within the past two years . . . John Whitaker of Chicago Chi-cago was booted out of Rome not because he wrote anything the censors cen-sors didn't approve but because Mussolini's propaganda bureau wished to cripple his Chicago paper in any way it could ... In Whita-ker's Whita-ker's case, booting him out of Rome not only hurt his paper's coverage, but it helped American papers that meet the requirements of the Nazi and Fascist party line . . . Eventually Eventu-ally they will permit only those newspaper men they like and who "play ball." Why don't the associations of American reporters act? Such groups as the White House Correspondents' Corre-spondents' Ass'n, the boys who cover cov-er the State Dep't, and the senate and house press groups could retaliate retali-ate by easing out from membership some Nazi or Fascist representative In Washington every time an American reporter is tossed out of Rome or Berlin . . . That would discourage Goebbels and Gayda since it is a known fact that German Ger-man and Italian news agencies need representation over here more than we need it there . . . Most of them are wire-spy services, anyhow any-how . . . Incidentally, Manfred Zapp, although indicted as a proven unregistered propagandist from a foreign government, is sull a member mem-ber of the senate and house press galleries, in good standing . . . The boys covering Washington some time ago considered kicking him out, but were discouraged by the State Dep't Memos of a Midnighter: The Greek Benefit at the Music Hall made $38,000 ... I. Hoffman's form of criticism for Irv Cobb's book: "Tripe-writing" . . . Has he ever been nicknamed "Fire-cllo" La-Guardia? La-Guardia? ... Oh, all rightttttttt! . . . The wealthy backer of Golf mag is planning a super-slick men's mag to out-Esquire ditto. Mr. Broadway Observes: "A chorus chor-us girl is a gal who's clever enough to be dumb so she can make a sap out of some wiseguy." V |