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Show ALONG BROADWAY WITH W1XCHELL Norma Shearer Gets 'Credit' for Escapades Of Younger Sister at Gotham's 'Hot Spots' By WALTER WINCHELL Memo af a Celuanfat's Girl Friday Dear Mr. W.: Norma Shearer! sister, who looks very much like Norma, did the Kit Kat with local dandies and people began buzzing that it was a shame to see Norma cutting up capers so soon, etc.... I like Miss Shearer so much, would you be a cute kid and make it clear it was her sister, not Norma?. ..Denks.. .Do you know a June MacLoy?...A clipping came in from the Chicago Herald-Exam. " Seems" she told a Judge that the agent suing her for back commissions didn't rate them because, the first break she got In movie shorts came from a plug in the column, etc.. Back in the Abbey club days, before my time. The) Cbaagi In Harlem is a ball of fire. Bringing back the big trade it used to enjoy I mean the eocial set from Park avenue. . . Oscar Bradley's crew on the Phil Baker program rates a salute, very tuneful. . .1 wish you'd let me know wnen you intend doing that column about ahows, wireless, press, etc Keeps me confused about sending the drama notices. . .There's a plan on to rename Sixth avenue, and call It LeQuardia avenue after the mayor. I like him dam b good mayor, him ..Have yourself a suggestion. sug-gestion. When you refer to a pair ready for the big leap, why not: "They are wed, hot and woo!"... Mebbe it is somethln I et. . .Heard some of the tunee from "On the Avenue." That Irving Berlin man certainly la grand. They are calling call-ing It his best score. ..Cabaret comas from the French word, "Camera," "Ca-mera," meaning an empty place! I see where Warner's doesn't llks the title "On Tour Toes" for Rodg-era Rodg-era and Hart's flicker by that name. Tell them all they can use: "Bullets "Bul-lets and Ballets" and to aend check . . .One writer here said you are living liv-ing in a 40-room house out there. How can they get so wrong?.. .Incidentally, .In-cidentally, one of the morning papers pa-pers now serves tea aad cookies for the staff at 4 in the afternoon. Whoops! . D. Thompson of Yale and the Sylvia Could gel were doing do-ing the Bali club all last week or dont you want that sort of thing t ...Oh, yes, at the Ball the other night "O. R." was brsgging he wrote your column for you. When say something about the brother of a local biggie who ia due for a beating if he doesnt quit bothering bother-ing them all! YOUR GIRL FRIDAY. tha manager mentioned I was expected ex-pected there at any moment, O. R. suddenly left. . .That's what you get for being civil to phonies, you dope. . .And don't send so many people peo-ple letters of thanks!... Boms of them use them for other reasons. Nice big scandal In a midtown hotel, ho-tel, where a manager fired hie entire en-tire chorus because his wife caught him embracing one of them in a corner last week... We heard that Patricia Wilder U being tested for the Scarlett role in "Wind"... She haa a grand dialect for it, what? ...Who aends out those wild salaries sal-aries that get Into the papers? I mean the alleged 100 C's for Gypsy R, Lee?... If you eee Eddie Cron-jager, Cron-jager, give him kindest regards. Nice buy. He photographed "Cimarron" "Cim-arron" and nothing haa topped that job yet... Wanna help a lot of chorus girls around hsre?. . .Then |