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Show tl 1 iS Man About Town: NEW YORKERS ARE TALKING ABOUT: Look's current Issue, In which Dorothy Thompson directs an oper letter to Anne Lindbergh . . . The fat dividend checks Goering gel from an American munitions firm, which are deposited to his account at the Bank of Rio de Janeiro . . . The way those exiled Cuban army and nnvy officials are whooping it up in the Miami spots, oblivious to trouble . . . FDR's alleged flippancy flip-pancy to A. Woollcott: "My family likes actors and why not? Doesn't Eleanor play one-night stands?" . . . The tiara the Duchess of Windsor wears in the Bahamas made of beach shells. The riillly newspaperwoman, who went to work In Goebbels' garbage gar-bage factory two years ago. They say she was the one who dreamed up that free-cable-to-Hitler trick . . . The plan by Londoners to confer a title on Cuentin Reynolds when he returns there . . . The Trotsky book on Stalin which will be published posthumously. The strange stories from London about Andre Maurois, the writer, who is currently warning Americans to remember the fate of France . . . The new resident agent of the Com-mys, Com-mys, a perfect Milquetoast in his teaching job. His own Red colleagues col-leagues in the same college aren't even hep to hm, Pearson and Allen's table-turning on Congressman Sweeney of Ohio, who is suing them in every state. He has lost 3 out of 3 already. Including In-cluding the case of his home state. P. & A. have filed against him, charging "abuse of judicial process" and ask $500,000 . . . The legend that Virginio Gayda was beaten up near Rome by two heroes who escaped. Mood: 'Ooray for the H'Engllsh: Cliff Edwards told it over on the "Knockout" "Knock-out" set at Warners. Two Britishers British-ers met after a long separation and compared notes about their adventures. adven-tures. "I've been drivin' ambu-. ambu-. lances, puttin' out fires, h'all sorts of things," said the first "What 'ave you been doin?" "I was at Dunkirk," said the other. "Gawd," gasped the first, "Dunkirk? "Dun-kirk? It must a been turrible!" "It was 'orrible," was the retort, "rained every day!" Our llo-IIum Dep't: All the Oscars Os-cars for the best film acting went to players who impersonated characters charac-ters from best selling novels and hit plays. Meaning that they had some life before they were screened. But those statues they give the actors ac-tors are big ones and they cast shadows that black out the authors who merely wrote the prize-winning roles. Observations: The N. Y. Times points out the difference between the Germans of 1914-18 and the Nazis of today. Von Papen, "runner of Hitler's dirty errands" In Turkey, showed a movie depicting the Nazis' cruelties to the conquered peoples. In the last war, the Times recalls, the Germans tried to lie out of their atrocities. Now they glory in them. Imagine! Paramount recently paid Moss Hart and associates almost al-most $300,000 for the film rights to "Lady in the Dark," the hit show Hart penned while under the care of a psychoanalyst. It is assumed that he will now take out a big policy insuring himself him-self against getting well. Served Him Right: One of those bores who begins his anesthetic vith: "You don't remember, do you?" was properly stifled by a fed-up victim with: "No, ain't I lucky?" Form of Criticism: At the play -premiere the other intermission time one of the critics' wives was telling Richard Watts, who hated it that she and her husband were having hav-ing fun. "Whatcha doing," intoned Watts, "holding hands?" New Yorchids: "Meet John Doe," which the previewers insist will be another feather in his Capra . . . Hugo Storm's book, "Seven Lean Hounds" . . . The editorial cartoons of H. H. Bergman in the Springfield (Mass.) Union big-city stuff . . . Quentin Reynolds' exciting book, "The Wounded Don't Cry," which father'd the "Dunkirk" quip that led a recent colyum. In Fewer Words: Bumito has double-crossed hs henchmen over here again. Many Americans came back from Spain to deny the Fascists Fas-cists and Nazis were .helping Franco. Fran-co. Now Old Baldj sends Spain a bill, itemizing the cost of every Fascist retreat! Of All Thngs: Cussing has been outlawed among the soldiers at Fort Devens, Mass. "Watch your language." lan-guage." the men were told. "You're in the Army, not 'What Price Glory?'." |