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Show W. W. RAPS RAPPERS QF-RQSE-ROMANGE By WALTER WINCHELL Note of a New Yorker They are taking- aides in the Billy Rose-Fanny Brice-Eleanor Holm saga . . . Their chums, that is . . . Some of them still can't understand it, and are saying of Rose that he shouldn't have said this or that for the gazettes until he had straightened out matters with his wife . . . This column, devoted to them both, sympathizes with the green, a fellow lost $10 000. . . . ; He went over to Mr. Bradley for a talk. ... He honed ha would settle ' for less. . . . Bradley refused, but said he would match him for double or nothing, and before the loser could aay yes or no Bardley tosssed a coin in the air. . . . He peeked at it in his paw and said: "You win." Later, he explained that If he began be-gan to do a cut-rate business setting losses for a percentage he might as well quit. It was always this corner's Impression Im-pression that the reason anyone became a Communist waa to make a decent living not after the manner of a capitalist, but to keep from starvation wages. . . . Apparently Ap-parently things have improved for them. ... At the Communist rally at Madison Square Harden Saturday, the chairman aaked the assemblage to contribute to the " psrty fund 'week's wages or at least a day'a pay. . . . One Communist gave a day's pay SAO! all concerned l,nve knows nn reasoning, as some Goldwyn must hsve said before, and Billy Rose, at least, came out In the open with it. . . . Instead of living under shsd. ows and being apprehensive about the finger-pointers. ... He has declared himself, at any rate, and is more on the up-and-up than some of his critics in the midnight places, who are giving him the "velvet knock." . . . Referring to those married lads who rap him while fondling the hands of some other fellow's girl I It happened the night John Montague, the golfer, waa acquitted ac-quitted upstate. ... A friend phoned Director Gregory LaLava from the movie coast and aald: All Hollywood is agktw about It!" "Sure," said LaCava, "it's an acquittal ac-quittal for Hollywood!' William Hers, a kid cousin of Bandsman Lyman recently graduated graduat-ed from Carnegie Tech. . . . Kor ix weeks he prowled the theatrical agencies looking for a break on the itage. . . . The answer invariably was: "Nothing today." . . . Last iveek young. Hers got a job in the affice of the "Julius Caesar" producer, pro-ducer, Orson Welles. . . . He sits at i desk and tells actors: "Nothing today." One of the richest young men In the nation (his family are mints) was recently talked Into "working for a living." . . . He connected with a Hollywood movie studio aa an assistant to one of the executives. . . . His salary is $20 per week. He turns it over to his butler! The New York Sun, which has tleefully been giving space to "I'd lather Be Right" because it aup-osedly aup-osedly twists the new deal's tail it just strokes it) might like to mow this: It has helped encourage i record-breaking advance sale of io many dollars that producer Sam -f. Harris and authors Hart and (aufman are being shoved into the allest brackets. That means the rov't will cut in for the largest slice f all. which isn't what the N. Y. u,n had in mind when it adopted he show. Emerging "from the show, a grumbler squawked that It wasn't antinew deal enough. . . . Did he expect the authors to find fault with a country that still supports three troupes of their other hit, "You Can't Take It With You"f . . . Incidentally, that play presents pre-sents the Idea that money la less than dust, needless, meaninglees. . . "I'd Rather Be Right," on the other hand, is based on a 'lad's need for pay boost so ha may marry. . . . Which only goea to show that good playwrights can take either side of the argument If tha royalties make it worth hile. At Bradley'a where the stakes ire tall, and the lambs gamble on ha red and black rather than on |
