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Show HP Man About Town New Yorkers Are Talking About: "The Lindbergh Line" slogan quietly disappearing from all TWA planes, office doors, stationery, etc. . . . And the New York Republican daily which is quietly "going to work on him" . . . The way Kath Hepburn Hep-burn was snubbed by Clevelanders who Invited her to an affair Just to chill her. All because she publicly endorsed FDR. Next day many sent Kate her photos requesting autographs. auto-graphs. She threw all the pix Into a wastebasket . . . George White telling a critie that he intended spending $150,000 on the Cotton club and the retort: "Why don't you keep the $150,000 and call it a good year?" Walter O'Keefe's persistent re- i marks about politics at the British war relief affair and the hullabaloo they caused at the St. Regis roof . . . The irony of those photos in Life showing how wonderful Britishers British-ers and England are. They were taken by Cecil Beaton, who once favored some of the things Hitler stands for. Kay Francis and her new romance, ro-mance, Ivan Goff. He may go to Hawaii to Join her . . . The Jack Doyles (Movita) who are now "Loyal Opposition" . . . The terrific chill Dr. Manfried Zapp (Nazi newspaper service exec) ree'd from the members mem-bers of the Nat'l Press club. Washington, Wash-ington, at their annual affair. His table was isolated in the rear on a balcony. No scrbe would be seen sitting with him . . . Rags Rag-land's Rag-land's wooing of Martha Raye . . . Bert Gordon's big moment Ruth Daye, the dancer . . . Clare Booth's decision not to do a colyum . . . The crepe ever the doors of The Peace Bldg. at 110th Street and Vth Avenue Ave-nue . . . The Clark Gables (Carole Lombard) . . . The rumor that a gazette will not renew a political colyumer's contract when it expires because of a recent avalanche of protests . . . The way Mussolini's army is getting a "BlitzGreek." More Talk: Angler Biddle Duke's planned marriage with Margaret Tuck. It may be postponed because his draft number is soon to be called . . . The society lady who was fired from one of the local war charities for allegedly taking 10 per cent com-mish com-mish on purchases . . . The H-T'i tocsin-sounding shortly for the drive by General Wood's group against William Allen White's the latter sponsoring help for Britain . . . The uptown Cafe Society bunch who say "God Bless America" (instead of Gezzoontight) when you sneeze. Vaughn DeLeath's return from the Coast via Mexico for the familiar reason . . . Frazier Hunt's illness at a Norwalk hosp . . . The stock brokerage in the Fred French bldg in the Wall Street area which leased space with the provision giving it the right to cancel in case FDR was re-elected. And invoking the clause . . . The phony investment firms that are operating again, dusting off the old sucker lists with get-rich schemes . . . The dickering to put Stokowskl's Philharmonic on the Mutual chain . . . The many exactors ex-actors being engaged as floor walkers walk-ers at a big midtown store. General Pershing's return soon to Tucson, Ariz., spiking reports that he will be the Ambassador to Vichy. Notes of a Bystander ' The Front Pages: Most of the dailies, including London's, saw Molotoff placing bogey-man to Britain Brit-ain by coming to Hitler's house. But G. E. R. Gedye puts himself on record rec-ord as saying it might just as easily represent Adolfs panic. Having flopped against Britain, says Gedye, mebbe the Reich is yelling uncle . . . Incidentally, it took the Post to point out that MolotofT's arrival in Berlin, with all the comics dressed in their j best gold braid, is paralleled in Chaplain's Chap-lain's "The Great Dictator" . . . The headline of the week was the one The News put on Chamberlain's obit: "Chamberlain Finds Peace" ... A dispatch that sneaked past the Rome censor reports the Vatican Vat-ican rebuking a Spanish rag for claiming the Catholics in Poland are being decently treated. The Nazis, apparently, are using Franco to soften up their murders . . . The Fascist bladders are as disorganized ns U Duce's invincible legions in the Pindas mountains. Virginio Gayda, head blotter, alibis that the troops were too green to deal with the Greeks, and others insist the rout of the black shirts by Greece is all British propaganda. Typographical Typograph-ical errors, you know, like Caporetto in the World War I and Guadalajara in Spain. The Wireless: You could build a skyscraper with the labor that goes into a radio comic's laugh lines, if you can believe what you see in the papers. Fred Allen, whose wit is faster than a retreating Fascist, writes solo for three nights making mak-ing his comedy silky . . . Then you see Bob Hope, photoed for Spot, confabbing con-fabbing with eleven co-workers on j those things he reels ofT on the spur of the moment . . . "Big Town" remains one of the meatiest melodramas, melo-dramas, with Edward G. Robinson and Ona Muson sparking it y |