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Show The Broadway Express: The Broadway Lights: Add things I never heard of in my sinful life: Bandsman Tex Beneke (ending a tour of the Southeast with his Glenn Miller crew) returned several hundred hun-dred bux to the promoters (of a ' swing event) with this explanation: i "We didn't draw too well for you; ! sorry." He must be quite a feller. I ... His 'Ighness and her Grace (her j what?) manage to have news photos , taken of all their sudden "charity" work. It's that "build-up campaign" i to remove the odor of a 1938 photo ' showing the Dook giving the Nazi salute in Berlin, when those soand-' soand-' sos were winning. Too late, Bub. i . . . A newsprint industry may start in Alaska soon. ... No money ' around? You should see it thrown away at a Florida dice house. . I Have you seen the Grand Central station's first two white Red Caps? Life's Little Jokes: The Hotel Winecoff (Atlanta) was booked to capacity that awful night. Many of the folks who couldn't get room there were sent to hotels ho-tels around the corner on Luckie street! Sallies in Our Alley: The larg- j est studio audience isn't in H'wood or here, but in Nashville, Tenn., where "Grand Ole Opry" entices 5,000 people every Saturday night. . . . Emily Post's book of etiquette (according to all bookshops at military mili-tary posts) is reported Best Seller No. 3. Sold more than 90,000 copies last year. It was published in 1921. j . . . Polan Banks (not so long ago) had a mag piece titled: "The President's Presi-dent's Daughter," which was like What happened to Margaret in New York recently. It was about the mythical daughter of a president j eluding her guards to keep a date with a colyumist. . . . Juliet Lowell, author of "Dear Sir or Madam" (clickerature) will do a piece on war i humor for the Encyc Brit. . . . John La Cerda's new book on Japan under un-der MacArthur is out. "The Con-queror Con-queror Comes to Tea," published by Rutgers Univ. Press. Today's short story (courtesy West 45th street theater marquees): mar-quees): "The Playboy of the Western World." . . . "The Fatal Weakness." . . . "Born Yesterday." Yester-day." . . . "Annie Get Yonr Gun." . . . "Life .with Father." . . . Heheheh. The Late Watch: Didjez know that regular urglary insurance policies will not insure against loss by theft by a kin living with the insured'' in-sured'' . . If yez want an elephant instead of a new car, the price is now $7,000. . . . Newest whim of the gels who dunno what to do with their money: A lipstick brush made of genuine sable hair with 14-karat gold handle. . . . Ham Fisher just got to Florida. A doyty trick considering he left Joe Palooka snowed-in up in the mts. . . . Insiders hear Happy Chandler will scold Durocher in public pub-lic via a display "of power" between them. . . . The city's next headache will come when the snow shovelers demand higher wages or else. . . . Whirlaway soon will be a grandpap-py. grandpap-py. . . . Zillionaire Jock Whitney is said "not to be interested" in the film business anymore. Poor Jock, he can't afford to make any more munyee. New York Novelette: When Russel Crouse double-checked the Washington data for the hit show, "State of the Union," he phoned his friend, Tom Stokes., whose news coverage of the capital cap-ital is Big-Timey. . . . When the show was ready Crouse offered Stokes a one per cent interest in its chances to show his appreciation. ap-preciation. . . . Stokes said thanks, no. . . . Mrs. Stokes, however, asked Crouse if she could invest $750 in it. . . . Sure, said Crouse. . . . Well, "State ol the Union" never has an empty pew and cinema rights sold for a mere $780,000. It happened the other night in a midtown restaurant on 7th avenue in the 400 block. ... A man and a woman were waiting for dinner when she suddenly fell forward. . . . The man grabbed his hat and coat and started to go but was stopped. "You can't leave her that way," he was told by the manager. ... A doctor doc-tor in the place pronounced her dead. . . . The escort looked both startled and annoyed and again started to leave. The manager, a waiter and a patron held him back, j ... He wouldn't respond at first but finally admitted he didn't know her name. . . . He'd met her 10 minutes before! Quotation Marksmanship: Jack Smith: He's caught in a sheternal triangle. . . . Mark Nelson: They used to say two things were certain Death and Taxes but now it's John Lewis and strikes. . . . Dorothy Parker: His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. . . . Marilyn K. Johnson. She nagged him into another woman's life. . . . S. Maugham: The trageuy of love isn't death or separation. The tragedy of love is indifference. . . . J. Thurber: While he was not dumber than ar OX, he was not any smarter. |