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Show ALONG BROADWAY WITH WlNCHELL Winchell Finds Fun, Fancy In Heartbeat qf Hollywood By WALTER WINCHELL Hollywood Heartbeat Lee Tracy and his mother entering the N. Y. cinema critics' award radio program at the Hollywood NBC studios to see S. Skol-sky Skol-sky get nervous while introducing La Rainer and L Mamoulian . ' . Simone Simon returning a stranger's "Howdy you do?" at the entrance to The Macy Building" . . So-called because under the window of each Twentieth Century-F undressing un-dressing room is a bug red star the emblem of a New York department depart-ment store . . . Alice Faye, whose father was a newspaperman, and her Tony Martin, their hands glued . . . Shirley Temple being directed di-rected by the capable John Ford, and remembering IT lines of dialogue dia-logue and as many cues! . . . And not fumbling once; . . . They very thought of It makes a certain amateur ama-teur so ashamed . . . Gene Fowler, one of the better members of the press only a few years ago, interrupting in-terrupting a Darryl Zanuck speech by yelling: "Warden Lewes!" after Mr. Z. had said: The neat speaker ii very well known to" . . . Stepin Fetchit: Paralysed lightning. Morle Short: Cora Witherspoon, whose actressing on the New York stages and In the cinema studio is big time, has been tenanting in a hotel her sine she came from Broadway a year ago . . . Recently, to celebrate ber new M-G-M contract, con-tract, she took a house In Beverly Hills . . . Cora nearly broke her neck trying to ready It for New Year'e and a party for her intimates inti-mates ... It all cam off on schedule, sched-ule, too, and it was a nice affair . . . Three days after the big doings, however, the star moved back to the hotel ... Too lonesome! Sounds-ln-the-Nlght: At Omar's Dome: "Doesn't your fact make you self-conscious?" , . .At Victor Hugo's "She's going back to the days of her youth that's dinosaur time!" ... In Laraaze's: "He's tired of live, his heart Is growing gray" . . In the Trocadero: "His column Is about three and a half yawns long" ... At Frank Kerwln's Rendezvous: "I caa't flgger her out. I dunno whether she's exotic or xhautd!" Hollywood DietiMaryi An epic: Any picture on which more than 73 writers get credit . . . Genius:. Undetected Un-detected larceny . . . Retake: Remarriage Re-marriage to your divorced wife . . . Imported talent: Five-and-ten store sales gels with foreign accent! . . . Audition: An excuse to interview a pretty actress In your offlc alone . . . Historical drama: An lght-reel distortion of facta which permits the leading lady to sing off key. Our Very Own Orchids Dept: Irving Berlin's latest torch chune: "You're Laughing at Me" from "On the Avenue" . . Jts simplicity clutches at your throat . . . Phillip Lord's grand air ahowf"We,- the People" . . . The lovely melody of "Serenade In the Night" full of pash. too . . . Gordon dc Revel's "Never In a Million Years" ditty, especially this tender poetry in It: "Your name is always on the tip of my heart" . . . Russ Morgan's rhythms by way of the networks . . The bravery of them all in the flood sectors. The phone girls sticking stick-ing to their posts, the radio men, et at . . . Thrilling . . . Repeat boost for "Black Legion" you've simply got to see it! Sallies In Our Alley: At a testimonial testi-monial dinner the other after sundown sun-down to Professor Moscowitz, the movie executive, there were various impromptu speeches mostly bad . . . The director of "Wake Up and Live." in bis brief talk, said: "Personally, "Per-sonally, I don't know how to tell Winchell how to play the role. I'm not sure. Should he play the part of a columnist or a bum?" ... To which a heckler stopped the show with: "What's the difference?" |