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Show I'Hi Scrambled Eggs: Harlem is planning a monument up there in honor of Pvt. Joe Louis . . . The Rockefellers have hired two cops to guard the tofnatoes in their Victory Garden . . . The Dry Dock Savings Bank permits depositors de-positors to sign or indorse checks with thumbprints. For those who can't write . . . Sounds like a Hitchcock Hitch-cock movie, but the lads on a local newspaper claim it happened. A reporter re-porter covering a trial three weeks ago walked out of the courtroom and hasn't been seen or heard of since . . . You get an idea of how taut the war has made everybody's nerves when Lucius Beebe finds fault with Elsa Maxwell's grammar. Years ago Clark Gable angered the knit-wear makers when he stripped to show he wore no undershirt. The movies made it up to the knitters in "The Male Animal." Henry Fonda peels down to a gym shirt . . . Somebody mentioned that Lefty O'Doul, the old major-leaguer, had taught Gary Cooper how to be a left-handed expert in "The Pride of the Yankees" flicker, where he plays the role of Lou Gehrig. Which led one Giant fan to cackle that "outside "out-side of Joe Gordon Gary is the only Yank that's hitting!" . . . Uncon-scious Uncon-scious quip on King Peter at the ball game. The king, said a caption writer, "soon got into the spirit of the game. He left after four innings" in-nings" . . . Bill Saroyan, who hasn't had a play on Broadway this year, has received mora publicity than those who have presented hit attractions. attrac-tions. Things to waste paper about: First movietown was criticized for making mak-ing films about the war warmongers, warmon-gers, etc. Now they are being scolded scold-ed because they don't make enough war pictures ... Perhaps another reason you never heard any more twaddle about stopping "B" pictures is that Bs make almost as much as As . . . Add little ironies: The cast of soldiers in "This Is the Army" (who get $50 per month) find it swell pay for acting. Most of them appeared in turkeys which rarely allowed them to average that much . . . Vaudeville probably will never really bloom again. Because new talent aims for the networks where salaries are huskier and where there are no one-night stands or Irritable Inn-keepers. Those debating radio shows (not you, Town Hall Meeting) will never be as popular as silk hosiery on shapely legs. Depend too much on tedious statistics for their arguments argu-ments . . . We can remember all the way back when Broadway ites were groaning that the dimout would hurt show business, which has never been healthier in summertime summer-time . . . Don't get the idea that all soap operas on the radio are corny. A few are well written. "Against the Storm," frixample . . . The short about the American Ameri-can soldier, directed by Garson Kanin, with Spencer Tracy doing the commentary, makes thrills waltz along your spine . . . Tin Pan Alley is in a slump. Not one of the song-smiths song-smiths has thefted a Tschaikowsky melody In six months. Midtown Vignette: A girl ankled into the office of a magazine editor and sobbed a bard luck tale of no coin, no job, no friends ... "If I had only one good looking dress," she said, "I'd have a chance of getting get-ting a job. Why is it everybody will bet on horses, but nobody will bet on a human being?" . . . Touched by her plight, he asked her what he could do . . . "Just give me a chance," she told him, "buy me a wardrobe and you'll never regret it" . . . That was three months ago and he paid the bills for a complete layout of apparel fop her . . . Today, To-day, she is one of the high-priced models smiling from newsstands and shod windows at you. The other night she looked at him in the Stork Club and turned away without even a hello ... He sent her a note which read: "I'm back to betting on horses. The other day I bet $50 on Whirlaway. He lost but after the race he waved and said 'Hello'!" Oop: Reader's Digest pats Sir Wilmott Lewis for saying: "Dorothy Thompson has discovered the secret of perpetual emotion." Well, most of us have said that about Kath Hepburn and Tallulah Bankhead but wotta short memory the Digest editors have. They ran a piece in May, 1940, by Katharine Best titled: "Perpetual Emotion." New York Heartbeat: Faces About Town: Fannie Hurst at 7:15 ayem in the park airing her pups . . . William Holden, of the moompitchers, in his soldier uniform ... The Ray Bolgers showing some of the troops from Fort Broadway Theater the Stork cub .... The woman with the deer on leash . . . Jan Struther, author of "Mrs. Miniver," Mini-ver," In the Biltmore Fountain Room . . . Harry Hopkins, with two newspaper men, talking only about his betrothed . . . Greta Gar-bo Gar-bo on a bike in Central Park. |
