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Show WALTER WINCHUL Signs of the Times Wanna buy a snake? Besides the night club varieties, animal dealers are stuck with dozens of 'em. ... If you don't think times are tough, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, the zillionaire, is wearing his seven-year-old polo coati Wanna House Cheap? A public relations firm offered a castle in England to anyone in the U. S. who would claim It. The offer didn't get one inquiry! Lltree tea talkers hear Marlon Hargrove refused to revise his new novel the reason the Literary guild turned it down and MGM won't film it. The movie deal was based on its being a guild selection. The author's decision, they add, probably will cost him $250,000. Characters in Search of 4 Colyum-ist: Colyum-ist: "Newsreel Sam, the Hissing Man." He haunts the newsreel tembles (in various va-rious parts of the city) and when applause ap-plause greets some neighborhood favorite fa-vorite (or national pet) he hisses. . . . it is Union square, he hisses Wallace. Wal-lace. . . . On swank Sutton place he hisses Taft. . . .On Broadway he hisses Eisenhower. ...lie sits in the rear rows and gets his big kicks watching the craned necks. . . . "Jaeger the Waiter." . . . He's the No. I dish-jockey at Lin-dy't. Lin-dy't. . . . Takes all orders standing sideways side-ways ever since a show producer told him he had a Barrymore profeel. He always refers to himself in the third person, frinstance: "Jaeger will be right with you." . . . "Please, please, you must relax if you want Jaeger to wait on you." . . . "Jaeger is a very busy man, be patient." . . . "Now, Jaeger will take your order." . . . Comics, gag-writers and others of the Broadway set all clamor for the services of Jaeger because be-cause he's such a lovable ham. He makes THEM Lflf |