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Show HECKUVA JAM WITH FEDERALS ' THREATENS JACK BENNY Walter Wlnchellt , Memo af Oohminlet'l Girl Friday Dear Mr. W.: You've been lending lend-ing moat of the columns In a little ehort from four to six linee and I've been ueing leada to fllL Didn't want to bother yoa and I'm afraid to put In anything without your eeelng It flret . . . Nothing worth while In the overeat, either . . . The talk about mldtown reveala Jack Benny In a heckuva km ... It aeema that Jack got a little cocky and tough with the federal grand jury. Being Irked over having to travel eaet for something I dent know anything about . . .The gov't men think he Isn't being cooperative coopera-tive and may get tougher with him ... I have returned all the girts that came for both of us from people who give things away because they know what They Want Later On ' Hera's a memo that lifted my eyebrows: eye-brows: Remember Hertha Thlele? She won great applause from all of you for her poignant portrayal of the blonde schoolgirl In "Maedohen In Uniform . , . She sow la employed em-ployed aa a domestle In a small Oermaa town. She Just never clicked after that . . Your piece on Jack Sullivan's- dying confession (regarding (regard-ing the Becker trial) had asms kickbackbecause kick-backbecause you said he was prosecution witness . . . Joshua Logan, Lo-gan, the director, and Richard Carlson, Carl-son, mala lead of the Dwight Win-man Win-man show. It's All Yours," are both dlssy ever Tarn era Toumonova, the dancing star of the show . . . June Almy, the florist, and Billy Baxter, tha motor exes, are to-gsthsring to-gsthsring . , . The one society girl whose voice Is so good shs doesn't use the microphone la Blgrid Lassen Las-sen at Armando's . . Jamea Mont, toon. Tha manufacturer wll donate ( 36 per sent of the sales gross to all refugee (roups. Tha factory la at V Newport, R. L ... The Nation bad an amusing observation aa Oypey ' Road Lee being mixed Hp wtth tha i Dies committee. The mag said tha ' atrtp-teaaer la "S professional at he- r ln( exposed. , . ., ; '...., y Lady Elisabeth Paget, who la to f) wed Raimund Ton. Uofmannstahl r after hia divorce (from tha ax Alios Astor) Is getting objections to the f match from bar father. Lord Paget, who says: "This young man bss no money" , , . John Measure's Crasy House la Phtlly waa recently a Life f Goes To a Party subject . . - Triers -haa been a lot of to-doodle about ; Bea Ullte's real romance . . . Well, ) j ha la Michael Anthony, a Juvenile ;. In the London Revue Share" ... ,'; I wlU tell the "Hellsapoppin cask that you didn't mean them about the ft. presents shucks, they're all part of tha family . . . Tha east of "Kiss tha Boys Goodbye" haa keen both red to death by Insurance sales men and ethers . .. . A few Bights ago Mrs. Roosevelt wont le see the show, and axprssisd a desire to go back-stage to meet tha players.' , When one of them heard It, ha said: "If she's trying to sell insurance, ' don't let her In? 1 Year Girt Friday ths Interior decorator, la decorating ( tha arm af Peachss Browning . . , Those Surprise Muddlers you mailed t to people here are tha talk of the t Stork Club I , Edward J. Hughes, secretary af , tha state of Illinois, called. Bald , they all feet badly aver your Item that tha word "Illinois'' means "Island af Nuts . . . "Island of Men," is what It means, hs says . . . , I waa tipped off to this. That ths police should look tip Raymond, ths butler of tha Costers. He Is ssld to havs disappeared two years ago mysteriously. Why T T T . . . A very prominent Park ' s venue society couple (not yet linked with Chap-era Chap-era u, tha alleged smuggler) Introduced Intro-duced Chaperau to most of his customers cus-tomers last year. Their last Initial is "K" , . . Don Budgs and Edythe Wright (of Tommy Dor ley's thrush dsp't) ara two sleepy people-Ing It That Nasi Oermaay "kidnap for ransom" rsfugss policy (on ths . . , Now please change tha subject, l desh bwoy. I Tha House af Murphy on the i movie coast swears this waa aver- heard there . . . "Bartender, I was a bad boy last night. So I'm gonna punish myself. No lemon peel in i my drinks for a whole wssk" . . . i That sotuma on Miami Beach made a lot of us a little unhappy, because we ara stuck up here . . . Gosh! I remember all the way back when newspapermen went to Far Rock-away Rock-away and Long Beach . . . And Ar-vernet Ar-vernet . . . And had to pay tha full rates, too M single 110 doubl . . . Anyway, It's cold aa hell up hers right now. So Kay and I hope you choke. Ann Sheridan has been elevated by Warners from B to A films . . . One coaster now boasts of having hav-ing flret suggested It . . . Ths fact la tha coaster belittled us when we suggsstrd it . . . Shipwreck Kelly spparsntly llkss Lups Velea much too much . . . He Is doing front table duty at the Caaa since she opened there . . . Paul Stone says that Juvenile la strictly a good pal not husband material ... I loved the premiere of Billy Ross's new Diamond Horseshoe. It opened to mora hysteria than I have seen In any night club this year. Tha girls sre dreams, tha costumes saucier than n can-can petticoat and the ' Anna Held milk bath episode quite 1 blushy. 1 roil I pagea an ww) waa vur imu Item on March 2th ... It told of a massage coming from VRT to a German diplomat hsra ansnt ths sounding out Just "how far" tha U. & would go aa to lifting tha boycott, boy-cott, extending credit and loaning money in exchange for tha Ratals easing up an tha Rafujews ... I almost forgot ltr-until ths source phoned to show us how good hs's been at digging up stuff . . . You must fsel very good about the number num-ber of big shots who are echoing ths sentiments you've bean hollering about since 1M1 regarding Hitler, et el . . . Remember when some people peo-ple eribctssd you for ItT . . . Now It appears to be the patriotls thing to do. A new cheengnm called "S. O. 8." will hit ths nation's candy counters Maria Kelly, former Caaa Manana girl (now at the Paradise), waa once wed to a Texas oohimnist. Bhs la rumored on ths verge of middle alallng It with a lad named E. DeGoff . , . The Int'l Casino drsss rshsarsala ware very exciting . . . Beet press agsnt stunt pulled In a long time waa that travesty on debs at tha Chss Ftrehouss. Jack Diamond, Dia-mond, who also exploits tha Versailles, Ver-sailles, waa the braina department for that story which got a terrific play ail ever the nation. |
