Show rv New Yorkers Y Are Talking About Babe Ruth Ruths s price 25 for his services in ill the Gehrig film dim which Goldwyn screams is too much He will ly Iy pay It it though as Ruth Kuth is a must in to any bIography of Gehrig Jimmy Walker WaUer the tile former Mayor who IS being considered as the head of a anew anew anew new racetrack to be bu It in N Y The backers being very wealthy French h refugees wondering where to invest their co eo n s planned dim vers on of the town s big hit Best I Foot Forward For Mickey and Judy The Nice Work Dep t tOne tOne tOne One of Life Lite s editors who was or ordered ordered tiered dered to spend at least two weeks w th Ginger Rogers for Rogers for a profile p ece Theay The way ay et ex Warden Lawes La has added twenty pounds since getting out of Sing Sing Prison I The way the British radio pounds away avay at Italy s slipping morale With eight daily dally broadcasts urging the country to unlatch itself from Ber Bertin tin Rome s reply ly is Why speak to us use Take It up With the Warden The sev several several several eral society lads on the verge of being drafted who flew to Cal California or orma nia ma sh shifting residences there at the same time tune So that when their numbers come up they II U go to a camp m in sunny Cal Dumb huh The new bootlegging racket m in England where more bootlegging goes on m rn the clothing field than In food And in men s attire The book hook I Paid Hitler by Fritz Thyssen the industrialist who first helped the Nazis in Germany Jimmy Wong Howe the Chinese cameraman and Rabbi Edgar Mag Magrun MagDin run Din who made speeches for tor a short to raise funds for Irish Relief The depressing news about Hen Hendrik Hendrik drik Willem Van Loon whose does docs have ordered him to stop all activity for the next six months The Rev Jardine who ho came to the aid of Wally and the Duke His letters are now ignored The way some of the pro NazIs over here outsmarted themselves The corn com they saved on postage by having their hymns of hate franked through the mails malls doesn t begin to cover the costs of lawyers and bail ball Jimmy Dorsey s check for 40 from Decca as his es for forthe the first fast ha half of 1941 In short hE heh heh h t t the notes otes of an Innocent B Bystander stander TI Tie e a Story Tellers Cl Clifton ton Fadl Fadi Fadiman Fadiman man will have you know that he sa s sa sa a book bock reviewer review er not a 1 I Grit me IC He po out the b g d difference m in The Reviewing Business m in Harper s Literary criticism is an anDrt anart anart art he says like the writing of tragedies or the making of love lore and ands s m does not pay Book re reviewing mg is a device for earning a living Charles also takes a box office slant at the prose racket in ill The Times mag in lD his on of the Pulitzer Prize The value of the prize he says is a thousand dollars in m cash to those who oho v ho accept it and ten thousand dol dollars dollars dollars lars in m publicity for those who ho re refuse refuse refuse fuse it The Front Pages An editorial ill in inthe inthe the Herald Tribune ep grams the spot the Bolo arm es have put the Huns in ill The Russians the dallY daily points out have only to survive somehow in m order to win wm Hitler has hasto hasto hasto to win m in order to ou low lou tan an spot the Fascists wears weariness ness for tor the war in their u propaganda bragging Recently they clammed only to have damaged the British plane carrier carner Ark Royal In all previous naval scraps both the Hem es and the Fascists have be begun begun begun gun with the s of that vessel Broadway Is Like Tins Thus Broadway is where after you ye ve reached the top top-at top at least a dozen acquaintances claim having played a big part in it But when you everybody fall everybody blames you And you blame the breaks instead of looking for a job where your talent w 11 II be such respected respected such as waiting on tables or being berng president of a bank Ao 1 t o matter how nice you are there will al nays be others who w 11 II knock you from you from sheer force of hab t A fellow who vho is cons d dered dered dered ered more important than Roosevelt or is one who can pick at least one winner out of seven races It If you don t talk about yourself then then you run the risk of be ng boy boa d still slut listening to others gab about themselves The B oad ad vay 1 I hae has hai e a done more to tom toma toma m ma e a the street famous than any of ofU U ti e famed folk on it y Croad is b i still the z pp est street of them all Remember when Ihen some people wrote rote articles al alleg alleg alleg leg ng it was dead a few years back Many visitors come to The B g Town to see the shows when the best show is New York itself The Bowery where many people pearle are starving is full of restaurants V The best v way ay to d sillus on your daughter who is stage struck is to topo topo topo po nt out the chorus girls staggering into subway sub ay kiosks No playboys or sables Just sables yawns and smelly sub ay stat slat ons s ster |