Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-10-22 | Page 15 | Fake Leg Racket is N. Y.'S Newest

FAKE LEG RACKET IS N. Y;s NEWEST By LOUIS SOBOL Snapshots at Random! At Canal and Broadway .. .A stewy gent, his battered gray fedora tittupping crazily over a left ear, sit squat on th ground with his back against a hydrant and jabs his right leg repeatedly with a penknife. . ."How'sh it done?" he pleads. .."You shell m 'n' I'll shell you. How'sh it done?"... A gal in a red hat and mink trimmed coat shudder . . . An ewe-boy ewe-boy grins . . . "Show 'em some more, Finney," he encourages . . . Finney ainka the blade Into the leg and It remains there, it handle standing defiantly erect ... A gendarme arrives . . . He reaches for the masochistic gentleman, yank him up by th coat collar and shoves him ahead . . The newsboy spill th beans . . "Aa-ah! It's only a fake leg!" he explains. "At's hi racket!" Pug-Actor Maxie Renrabloom la saying It with romantic punches ta the former Follleswewt, Ya-landa Ya-landa Kunaas . . With all this barrage of air-chatter from the coast, It appears to me the listening listen-ing public Is going to find relief when It gets Its calm comment over the ether from the Broad- way terrain which It will shortly. Peggy Hopkins Joyce enter the Lombardy bar with a huge police dog aa her escort . . . The hound growls and several of the gels reach for smelling salts . . . White-haired Carl Van Veehten enters the Cotton club with Mrs James Farley at hi elbow, spuming a ringside table for a more aecluded box . . Grade Allen Al-len and George Burns invade the place and immediately ask for Owner Own-er Herman Stark . . "We wiit a bridge game." purr Green. "Raft tells ua It's a good way to break into the column" . . . Egyptian Gall-Gall' Gall-Gall' stooge at the Versailles Tues-dsy Tues-dsy night plucked from ths audience audi-ence to assist him in his necromancy necro-mancy is the cinema doll, Gall Patrick. Pat-rick. The social Graham Johnstone will Join the prampuehera at Yule-tide Yule-tide Homething the able p.a. for Ullbert .Miller missed -or suppressed Jacqueline Porel (Jacqueline Mainsotl in "French , Without Tears," besides being the granddtr. of Rejane Is also the dtr. of Jacqura Porel who will shortly marry Grace Bingham, former wife of Harry Payne Bing-i Bing-i ham thua making the snooty ma- tron step-mamma to a little French actreaa ... I think we've got something there! Broadway ana Hollywood pour into the Frolics to encourage Lou , Holts . . . The Jack Pearls are J with George and Grade Burns . . . At an adjoining table, young film tycoon David Selxnick and hla bride and at another, the William Gax-tons Gax-tons and the Herbert Bayard Swopes, while Director Gregory La-Cava La-Cava shares a tablecloth with R.K.O.'a chief, Leo Spits ... At Mario's Mirador earlier, four clowns exchange flip retorts none very original the genial Messrs. Roy Sedley, Jack Waldron, Jay C. Flip-pen Flip-pen and Joe Lewis . . . Ths ten 'girls lined up Tuesday evening in 1 the Village Barn for th live turtle raoe, run the wrong way when Brian Aherne enters the race Is suspended suspend-ed in the rush for autographs. Indications are Columbia Broadcasting Broad-casting Is canceling Ita plan to erect IU own building at asth sU and Park ave-due, the report la, to the general ahlft of broadcasting broadcast-ing activities to the roast (ay new organisation here calling Itself 8UOP Society of the i Daughters of Preachers . . . But I a man. Lee Brown, presided at the first meeting . . . Wire tram she coast! Na matter what anyone i tells you you tetl khem Leopold Minkowski and Greta Garbo will I definitely wed when the Htokow- skis get their final papers."