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Show MR 1 The New York and Hollywood Scene: Faces About Grammervlllet Al Jolson spellbinding a squad of U. S. Marines at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool . . . Bette Davis and Sec'y Morgenthau thrilling the uniformed men at the Hollywood Canteen . . . Dinah Shore thrushing nine ditties for them . . . Bonita Granville showing Lt. Joe Wade the cine-magicians. cine-magicians. He's all mended from that New Guinea crackup . . . Ella Logan's real teari as she micro-phoned micro-phoned "That Old Feeling" to the China-Burma-India sector via the Mail Call program, which isn't heard by the public here . . . Veronica Lake, tiny as a doll, floating float-ing to the rhythms of Emll Coleman's Cole-man's and Phil Ohman's crews at the Mocambo . . . Lovely Marianne Mari-anne O'Brien of the Warners' factory fac-tory surrounded by Marines In the Clover Club . . . Miriam Hopkins at La Rue with her constant companion, com-panion, who never was Itemed as , her favorite male. He's a Greek biggie . , . Bob Hope and his Johnny John-ny Weismuller hair-do. "No cracks," he warns with a threaten-lng threaten-lng finger, "I'm doing a pirate picture." pic-ture." Marshal Rommel (according to Britishers who made their escape back to our lines) has a sense of humor, be thinks ... He made several British officers attend his frequent lectures, during which he affected a pose that the Battle of Africa wns a sporting event. He would give these prisoners a testimonial testi-monial dimer with all the pomp he could muter on the desert Big entrances, en-trances, place cards, introductions, salutes and so on , . . And then, while the German staff dined on excellent ex-cellent cuisine, the British prisoners were served a meal consisting of their own K-rations captured with them. Rommel also delighted in pointing out their errors and why they were captives. He was asked by a correspondent: "To what do you credit your success? How will the enemy ever beat you?" . . . With a gleam in his monocled eye Rommel replied: "The German Army is great because of its great organization. I know exacUy when t will enter a town. One month ahead I know what suite I will have in which hotel. If, however, some day, I march Into a place and go to my suite and find another German general then I will know we are licked!" The "Oklahoma" cast is reported doing so much ad llbblng that "they are spoiling the show." Guild execs ex-ecs shrug and say: "Look at the box office" . . . The New York Post Office has broken all records in the district. To date this year it has done business totaling 103 millions ... The book now on FDR's bedside bed-side table is "Rendezvous with Destiny." Des-tiny." The only comment on the book appeared in a Chicago paper briefly and a story in the Christian Science Monitor. Not a single review re-view has appeared on it yet . . . Hepburn's newest interest, they say, is a famed polo player . . . Add ditty similarities: 'Time Waits for No One" and 'Tales from Vienna Woods" , . . Lana Turner won't bark about it until she sees it here, but those delicious canapes Ray Bourbon served with cocktails the other sundown were made from dog food . . . R-R-Ruff-Ruffff! The Late Watch: Shirley Ross and her husband, Kenneth Dolan (who parted last season), are happier hap-pier than ever. They reconciled after aft-er he was quoted here as saying the fault was all his because: "I neglected neglect-ed my wife instead of my clients" . . . There will be a copyright war over U. S. rights to the song popular with the troops, "Lili Marlene" . . . Douglas Miller, who wrote "You Caa't Do Business With Hitler," told OWI chiefs that the war with Germany will last at least another year and with Japan two . . . T. Casey, the B'klyn Citizen editor, has written two songs with Johnny Tucker of Hook and Ladder Co. 117 In Astoria ... All major networks banned the song, "Don't Change Horses," which has nothing to do with politics. It has been networked since AprlL The authors wrote "Mairzy Doats." Quotation Marksmanship: Noel Coward: The most terrifying thing to a man is a woman who cries in advance . . . E. Hemingway: The saddest thing in the world is the affection af-fection of man and woman; the most fortunate ending is by death . . . J. Porter: She whines him around her finger . , . Mable Bandy: Eyelashes Eye-lashes that could sweep the cobwebs from any man's heart . . . L. Corning: Corn-ing: Low clouds on the verge oi tears. Sallies In Our Alley: Bob Dunn'i office boy requested the afternoon off (on the day of a double-header) saying: "Boss my grandmother" . . . Dunn cut him short: "Oh, come now, son. You're not going to pull that chestnut about your grandmother grandmoth-er being dead?" . . . "No, sir," was the reply. "She's home on furlough!" fur-lough!" ... At La Conga som velvet-knockers were gabbing aboul a gal whose beauty was in dispute . . . "She looks," said an admirer, 'Tike something from Vogue!" . . "a rejection slip." |