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Show That Girl Friday Holds tlie Keyhole While Walter Is Away ml being sought for tax evasion . . Renee DeMarco has started a fad by wearing short skirts for her ballroom dancing. The other gals are copying her already, but most haven't her pretty legs ... I hope this Is true, but anyway one of the nation's biggest steel men (Weir, of the Weirton Co.) told a mutual pal that the war would be over in six months . . . Said that all their info was to the effect that the German Ger-man people and German army didn't want war, and that if Adolf didn't make peace, they'd see that he did, etc. ... A friend of mine was at a party where a certain playwright Was a guest He told me this yarn which shows how posey the lad is. All 'evening the author was seen taking tak-ing down notes about everything that went on, busily recording the quips, the cracks, the sayings, etc. "Ah, these playwrights!" someone commented in admiration, "Always on their toes looking for material" , . . Then Our Hero got woofled and forgot to take hi notebook when he left . . . Burning with curiosity, curi-osity, his host opened it and found nothing but meaningless doodling, circles, squares, etc. No words, no shorthand, just nothing. Me new shows next week . . . Martin Dies does carry a gun threats, etc . . . Here's a good simile and I can't recall where 1 saw It: "As personal as a slap." Your Girl Friday. Copyright 1939, Dally Mirror. 1 Taller Winchell , Memos ef a Columnist's Girl A . ' Friday . Dear Mr. W.: Hedy Lamarr's ex- ', f ri us band, Fritz Mandl, the muni-it muni-it ions magnate, was secretly mar-K mar-K ied November 22 In Maryland, so Js, the Louisville report was pretty sour , . , She's an Austrian bar- oness . . . The Jean Bennett-Wooly . Donahue matter appears to be Vi. gathering momentum over on I Long Island . . . Connie Bennett I says she would appreciate a photo-r photo-r i j stat of the excerpt (from her Mar- , Vtuis) we published ... :' . . Justice Ferdinand Peeora, ac- ' ; cording to buz7 in legal circles, has '.:! a good chance of making the U. S. ?' supreme court He has visited F. . Tl P ui.t--1 timM ltlv T.llf 'j I about nightingales. J I Richard Knight who put the Met 4 I Opera opening on the front pages tlike It never was before, has flown , to Reno twice recently, I hear. To fry to patch up things with Mrs. . Knight One of his chums told me there's nothing wrong with Richard, Rich-ard, but a bad case of the old f orcheroo, which takes unusual P rm when The Wires grip film . . . fi -ho do you think Edmund Gold-t Gold-t g, the film director, is sending let-4 let-4 rs to regularly? Ann Staunton, 4ne popular blond chorine the (type Ziegfeld would have glorified i. , The Bund rag reports that you jMe Kuhn's worst enemy, which makes It unanimous . . . It's okay If or them to rap the press but fvhen the press punches back, they fioller blue murder . . . It's refresh-ting refresh-ting to hear them claim persecution jfor a change. F Howard Hawks Is In town. Says 'the revised "Front Page" flicker ''(which will be under the name of -My Girl Friday") la better than the original. If it is merely as good, that will be all right too ... Do you remember Virginia Fox who played In the Gilbert andulllvan shows T She's 111 In a Baltimore institution in-stitution . . . Eugene Lyons was in. Bald he thought it would amuse yon to know the Commy paper In town omits listing his radio program, pro-gram, but that Its readers apparently appar-ently listen as he gets so many a bust va letters . . . The Cotton Club's new dance "Shorty George" is already being taught in the dancing schools . . . Quietest nook In New York: The picturesque little lit-tle Meditation Chapel on the 3rd floor of The Blltmore. . Leuls Prima, the footer, was summoned before the Ass't Attorney-General's office to testify against a former employer, who is |