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Show MOTHER WRITES HELEN HAYES' BIOGRAPHY IN LETTERS TO GRANDDAUGHTER well Symphony,' whereby Papa Haydn wished to five a gentle hint to Prince Ntcholu Esterhaiy that the members of hie orchestra want ed to go home for Christmas." Evn hla opponents concede that F. D. ft, can not only pick men, but bring out the beat in them . . . Which reminded someone of a great debate on the merite of the varioua Confederate generate in the Civil War . . . After listening to their follower! extol the virtual of John-ton. John-ton. Longstreet, Beauregard and Jackson, a courtly Virginian declared de-clared himself . . . "Mighty good men, all of them," he said. "To have attracted their loyalty, Robert E. Lee Just must have been great!" r Dorothy Roea relays this one. Lynn Fontanne. the star, Just finished fin-ished a cross-country tour and says that this repartee between two we- men actually was overheard in a Texae restaurant . . . 'That Fontanne Fon-tanne has beautiful hands, hasn't she?" . . "She sure has," said the other, "do you think they're her own?" Waller Vinchfll; The Private Payers ef a Gib Reporter Mrs. Catherine Hayes Brown, mother of star Helen Hayes, is completing com-pleting her biog of her dsughter for Random House. She's doing it in the novel form of letters to her granddaughter, Mary MacArthur . . . The Fair, they say. must attract at-tract 300.000 admissions daily to click . . . Perhapa it opened too early, at that . . . Henny Young-man, Young-man, a clever clown, handed Ben Bernie his best gag in decades, to wit: Tm not going to any war. They're not going to shoot me with any Sixth Avenue EH!" The Hollywood Reporter's columnist col-umnist listed Jamestown as the film colony's choice to win the Ky. Dub-kby Dub-kby . . That nag's son, Johnstown, won . . . Just another case of Hollywood Hol-lywood being a generation behind the times ... It was sad to see Leu Gehrig benched after 2130 Ready first-basing Jobs with the Yankee, but hardly worth all the breast beating on tha sports pages ... If you turned the pages you'd have found an almost cheerful account ac-count of the benching of thousands ef W P Aupers . . The movie "studios rs wonder!ngTr Thr kegs f coin they squandered toting reporters re-porters to Omaha. Dodge City, etc., helped their flickers at all . . . The . press agents wrote lavishly, but mostly about tha ballyhoo, hardly ever about the pictures! ... In a word, the publicity got ths publicity! pub-licity! Sen. Reynolds (N. Car.) bom-basted bom-basted that America should take a sleeping powder to prevent the people peo-ple knowing any mora about the horrors of Europe . . . Tha fact that the Idea got the loudest hurrah from Frits Kuhn and his body-gusrds body-gusrds indicatea how useful the senator's idea Is to the Ratile . . Thornton Wilder declined to gab about the play he's writing, pleading that It la bad luck to discuss an unfinished work . . . Worse luck. . as Mr. Wilder may recall from "The Merchant of Yonkera." to finish It. New that Their Majratlee are en their way to tha U. S. A., this one should be timely ... At ths Empire Em-pire Fair In London, In 1924, horrified horri-fied Englishmen watched a giant American slap King George V on tha back . . . "Put It there, old boy." ho boomed, "I've Just landed and you're the first honest-to-goodness King Tvs ever seen!" . . .-The King waa amused. Ha shook hands . . . "i can readily believe that," ha aald with a smile, "for I see that you have not even had time to familiarise familiar-ise yourself with our customs!" Wemer Fink, the German actor, recently Jailed in Berlin for making Jokes about tha Nasi big shots, waa freed for a while on condition that he stick to his old Kaiser Wiihelm routine ef pantomime . . . Fink greed, but after each altent specialty spe-cialty aa tha ex-Kaiser Fink would make his little curtain speech while still In ths Kaiser make-up and costume . . . "Now how would you like," he'd aay, "to have me coma back?" . . . The Kaiaer fans applauded so lustily and long that Actor Fink la now back in a Concentration Con-centration Camp. Following Attorney-General Frank Murphy's settlement of the sit-down atrtkea, one of the really important motor magnates called upon him . "Governor," ha aaid earnestly, "this Is an historle event. You have ended America's greateat Industrial crisis without ths loaa of a drop f blood!" ... "I decline any personal per-sonal honors," waa the aolemn answer, an-swer, "tha people in an industry can slwsys reach an agreement when no liberties are suppressed!" Speaking In the White House at the presentation of the Chi Omega Award to playwright Rachel Croth-era. Croth-era. critic John Maaon Brown nlf-tisd nlf-tisd that be would gladly accept aa tee final portrait of a dramatic Critic the character of Mr. Pecksniff, Peck-sniff, whom Dickens likened to a Signpost . . . "Because," said Mr. Brown, "he waa always pointing the way and never going there himself!" him-self!" ""Dear Walter," wrltea Max Polt from Baltimore, "In the May 3rd column you applauded a new routine rou-tine by Eddie LsBaron'a orchestra. It is, of course, taken from the in-apiration in-apiration for Joaepb Haydn'a 'Fare- |