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Show fa 1 mi a Man About Town: Broadway Confetti: Passing an apartment the other day we heard some music. It brought us up short. It was beautiful. Here's the low-down: low-down: It won't be released until May. Watch It click. The name of the ditty: "Rockin' Horse Cowboy" (words and tune by Tony Starr and Frank Capano), recorded by Frankie Carle. The vocalulu is by Marjorie Hughes. . . . Murray Win-ants Win-ants kiddie album, "It's Fun To Eat," is a click. He will do several albums taking all child problems off your headaches. . . . Street scene in Washington Square: Little 7 year-young Susan Greenberg (in the early yawning), who has the honor of giving Fala his daily stroll. From all those reports of American looting in Germany Ger-many you'd gather that we have divested the Germans of everything every-thing hut pro-Hitlerites. Reports from there indicate that nationalism nation-alism again Is on the rise. Well, you can't blame 'em. From the way we've been treating them, they are bound to think THEY won the war! The Stage Door: Paulette God-dard, God-dard, twitted for exotic evening dress (without hosiery), observed the following afternoon ankling (and such ankles! along Vth avenue with more sensible covering. . . . Leonora Corbett of the British stage is a new Yankee Doodle Dandy. . . . Not too many playgoers know it, but "The Importance of Being Earnest" Ear-nest" was dashed off by Oscar Wilde when he was happily married, mar-ried, and not after his famous fumble. . . . Clark Gable told reporters re-porters he considered himself lucky to wind up with $1,000 after a year of earning $6,000 weekly. Lucky is right. One columnist we know (he makes almost twice that much) winds up owing his heirs 10 times what Gable keeps. Midtown Vignette: One of those naive, gullible, midtown husbands was finally told that his Mrs. was giving him the Old Razzoo. . . . "We'll show you with your own eyes," said a pal. . . . They went to a movie theater and, sure enough, there she was (necking like anything) in the next-to-last row with a fella. . . . They watched the whole thing and then left. . . . "Well?" said the pal. . . . "So what?" was the answer. "I don't even know the guy!" The Press Box: A Detroit daily neatly nutshelled: "The basic task at the Moscow conference will not be to make peace with Germany but to keep peace among the Allies." Al-lies." . . . Since the end of the war, American taxpayers have shelled out half a billion to solve Germany's problems. A fraction of that sum would solve the housing problem of American war vets. . . . Both John j L. Lewis and Joe Stalin have discovered dis-covered that when Uncle Sam runs ' out of patience you will start running run-ning for cover. Hitler also discovered discov-ered that. In short; America's answer an-swer to the iron curtain is an iron i fist! . . . Washington bizmen report that biz has tobogganed 32 per cent i (in the last six months) because of government payroll slashes. The Irony of the Week: It was Just a short paragraph on an inside in-side page, but the irony of the yarn packed more of a dramatic dra-matic wallop than any playwright play-wright could concoct: Many Germans are now trying to br converted to the Jewish faith n the hope that it will make it easier for them to get a visa to the United States! We only regret that the Jews those Germans helped slaughter slaugh-ter didn't live to view the spectacle spec-tacle of their cowardly tormentors tormen-tors trying to hide behind the religion they hit from behind. Colyumemos: Herbert Lehman told a group seeking donations that he is unemployed for the first time in his life, with no prospect of a job in sight. Then he donated $45,000. - . . Victor Gilbert's millionaire parent built (for him) a hotel in Ridgefield, Conn., which cost $200,-000. $200,-000. It makes most other hotels its size look like hobotels. TheTee for a weekend is only $200. . . . After reading a vignette here about Ben Grauer (the radiorator) losing heavily at a gaming casino in Havana, Ha-vana, the New York state income tax department sent Grauer a $595 refund. . . . That's love department: Dr. Peter Lindstrom flew in from the coast (in risky weather) to spend two days with his beloved wife, Ingrid one-rniess Sounds in the Night: In the Mermaid Mer-maid room: "Some big name actors have talent, but most have press agents." ... In the Copacabana: "She didn't mind his wife, at all. She just couldn't stand his giri friends." ... At Howie's: "Instead of giving Hollywood newlyweds best wishes, everybody gives them ! odds." ... At Yank Sing: "He does : the stage more ham than good." - In Bradley's: "Many a true word is spoken in whispers." ... At Pallini's: "A typical society triangle -him, his wife and her money." |