| Show PUBLISHER AUGURS WAR WAR FOR AMERICA By WALTER New York Heartbeat Heartbeat- Faces About Town Lord Beaverbrook the London newspaper publisher ing 21 it with Captain Joseph Patterson to discuss the world problems Their gazettes mould most of the public opinion Beaverbrook argued that America will be at war long before England will Senator Senator- of Michigan often listed as a White House tenant in the Stork club Elliott Roosevelt and a group at the Casa Manana who were en route to a gallery table until he was recognized Then a special table was arranged down front A celebrity eh Frueh the best of the caricaturists at Avenue near Street talking talking talking talk talk- ing shop with Fourth Gov Harry A. A Moore of N. N J. J at Gallagher's three Gallagher's three tables from Mayor May May- or Ellenstein of Newark They didn't swap recognition recognition although although practically sharing haring the sa same e ketchup ketchup ketchup ketch ketch- up bottle Sallies in Our AlIe Alley One of the howls of the week happened at the N. N B. B C. C studios when the strapping fellow who plays the role of Dick Tracy the demon detective who knows no fear was surrounded by worshiping hero-worshiping kids One didn't want an autograph he said timidly but he would be thrilled no end end if if the great Dick Tracy would shake hands My little littleman littleman littleman man beamed Tracy offering his paw it would be my pleasure But it The kid had one of those gadgets hidden In his hand band which wh-ich shock hell out of you and the great Dick Tracy jumped at least seven feet Phil Baker tells of the radio comedian comedian comedian come come- dian who came home for dinner and his wife said Oh dear Little Oscar said the funniest thing today today to today to- to day What thundered the comic has that rascal been reading reading reading read read- ing my scripts again 1 New York Novelette He was a pianist pian She a swinger of songs Cute kids whom everyone patted on the head in small oases like the One Fifth Avenue Bar They climbed together platonically Both made the Columbia net net- work He as a pianist genius arranger She as a feature feature feature fea fea- fea- fea ture Then it hap hap- She pleaded with him to stay when his mood suddenly switched Radio she counseled was his big ig chance She even went to the broadcasting execs and got them to make all sorts of crazy offers big wages private office etc She did everything but die for him but his mind was made up He decided that acting was I his true vocation not music And having the courage of his convictions convictions convictions con con- v threw it away for The Hes He's now a chorus boy in Hooray For What with What with a camels camel's hair coat suede shoes and practically a week Observations The patrol wagon which makes the nightly rounds of the Broadway sector to arrest little old ladies selling seIling Patrolman Mathews at Street and the Gray White Way who has hasa a beautiful singing voice ice but blue- blue coating he says has a future and besides they give you a pension The song sheet peddler at Street and Times Square attired in threadbare clothing loudly yelling the tune title I Live the Life I Love The rendezvous for the Midnight and The Queen Mary docking Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day morning morn in the blazing sunshine an an enchanting view from the tower apartment windows of Central Central Central Cen Cen- Park West Vest dwellers New Sally Irene and Mary Fred Allens Allen's soon due Zanuck Zanuck Zanuck Zan- Zan uck film plus the Gordon and Revel score their best since Wake Up and Live Even they must admit their later hymns were medi medi- ocre Edward G. G Robinsons Robinson's grand make-believing make in n A Slight Case of Murder one of Warners Warner's funniest shows from the original Damon Runyon so no wonder Louis Armstrongs Armstrong's Decca platter of Sweet as a Song La Marguise Mar lar- quise guise on W W. Street where supper is superior Dorothy James' James at the Music Hall The best show in town On Borrowed Time at the Long- Long acre Midtown m Vignette Her name is Maria Basca once great in German German German Ger Ger- man opera houses Her brother was a pal of Goebbels who edits Hitler's speeches Marias Maria's brother managed Elizabeth Bergner Begner and other ether stars in Berlin The family is fully Aryan and could have enjoyed being high among the Nazi intelligentsia Intelligentsia-If if the brother hadn't remonstrated with Goebbels because of the treatment of one of their Jewish intimates This so infuriated Goebbels he exiled the entire Basca family and confiscated their estate worth more than half halfa a million |
