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Show Editor s Note While Winchell WinchellIs is on vacation vacation , . Jack Lait Lalt Is act- act acting act acting - ing as cuest guest columnist columnistMiscellaneous Miscellaneous MIscellaneolJ $ 1IIldgets- 1IIldgets 1IIldgetsThe Midgets - The Windsors will return to Amer America Amcrica ica next winter wmter The Riviera bores boresthem boresthem them . . Their villa is still stlll mined rruned and andthey andthey they have to tread trcad narrow paths pathsmarked pathsmarked marked out for them The Rob Robcrt Robert crt Y Yojngs .mgs mgs . New Yorkers who en entertamed entertamed tertamed Edd e and Wally at New Newport Newport port last summer are abroad and andhave andhave have visited them Young YOU1lg a busl buslness business ness tycoon has offered the duke a apost apost post with one of his companies companiesIt companiesI It is unlikely that commerce will willattract willattract attract Windsor even more unl un ! ke kely kely ly that his family which controls controlshis controlshis his income mcome would wou1d sanction it . Odds Oddsare Oddsare are that he will buy a house m Palm PalmBeach PalmBeach Beach where he and his duchess duchesshave duchesshave have many friends Doc Hol Holden Hoiden den who was Fifl Flfi Widencr Widener Wlch Wlchfeld Wichfeld feld s second husband is believed believedto to be Windsor Wmdsor s undercover finan financial financial cial agent in New York Contacted ContactedI Contactedat I at Newport ha he refused to dIscuss discusshis ' his associations with royalty royaltyThe The Duke family is m the movIe movIebus moviebusiness bus mess And Dor s is active 1I1 1I1person inperson person The tobacco millions are arehelpmg archelping helpmg finance Independent Artlsts ArtlstsInc ArtistsInc Inc which includes mcludes in m its roster rosterCary rosterCary Cary Grant Rosalnd Rosal nd Russell and andher andher her husband Dudley Nichols and andFran andFrank Fran ! . Vincent Herm tage Press Presswill Presswill will pubh publJ h on Oct i 'i ' the new book bookby bookbyNickKerny by Nick Ker ny How to Write S ng ngand ngand and Sell Popular Popu1ar Songs What Nick Nickdoesn Nickdoesn doesn t know about the intncate intricatesl intncatesl sl ghtly crazy bus ness wouldn t m mterest interest terest anyone Among the mass of ofmaterial ofmaterial material will be an expose of ofsong ofsong song racketeers racketeersCaveman Caveman Get Your Club- Club ClubRaymond Club ClubRaymond - Raymond Loewy the artistic artisticIndustnal artisticindustrial Industnal designer ( ( of auws auwsand autosand and what not ) has a 750 h hpcruiser P PcrUIser crUIser the Media Luz which whichhe whichhe he designed berthed at the eso esoterle esotenc terle Sands Point Pomt ( L LI I ) Rivi Riviera Riviera era When Loewy e expectsgTiests ects ectsgnests gnests he sprays his cablDs cablDswIth cabinswith wIth a perfume labeled Savage SavageLove SavageLove Love ' Midtown \ Matinee l\Iatmee l Iatmee By ( ( By Tom Weath Weatherly Weatheriy erly ) ) It was a southbound Fifth Fifthavenue Fifthavenue avenue bus She got on at 57th 57thstreet 57thstreet street With apologies to Rogers Rogersand Rogersand and Hart My heart stood stillThis still stillThis This is it I thought Never Neverbefore Neverbefore before had I seen . . 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All my life We I ve dreamed about a agirl agirl girl I never kne v her name nameI I never even knew : . she .he he eXIst eXIsted existed ed Until just now In other otherwords otherwords words You re the dream come cometrue cometrue true And I couldn t t let a stu stup stup p d convention take you J-ou J ou - from me meI meI I ve just got to know youJust you youJust Just then the bus stopped and andshe andshe she moved to vard yard the exit As Asshe Asshe she came opposite me She Sheraised Sheraised raised her left hand to grasp the thestanchion thestanchion stanchion And there they vereThose vere vereThose Those two symbols of posses possesslve possessive slve priority pnonty and self imposed serYl serYltude servitude tude The d amond solita re and andtbe andthe tbe platinum platmum band Oh wen wenthere wellthere there s always the French Forolgn ForolgnLeglOnl For ignLegion LeglOnl ! The average honest mghtclub mghtclubdrtws nightclubdraws drtws : about $20000 20000 $20 20 $ 000 a year on It libconcessions : . conceSSIOns usually half their gross grossmtake grossintake mtake This is frequently pa d dm dm m advance often oHen two or more years yearsquota yearsquota quota at the start to finance the theventure theventure venture Banks BanJ.s BanJs . lend money to toconcession toconcession concession contractors on prospects prospectstrustlng prospectstrusting trustlng their keen judgment based basedon basedon on intensive mtenslve experience e"penence epenence " One OnetYPical Onetypical tYPical club let us see its books booksIt booksIt It grosses $21 21 $ 000 a week count ng ngan ngall an sources The original orlgmal mvest mvestment investment ment vas $105 105 ? $ 105 000 of wh ch the con concessionaIre concessionaire cessionaIre put up $50 50 ? $ 50 000 000Shows 000Shows Shows and two bands ( ( plus rel rei ef efbands efbands bands on nights mghts om off ) cost $5000 5000 $5 5 $ 000 a aweek aweek week costumes dance d rectors rectorsetc rectorsetc etc amortized amortlzed $500 500 $ ad\ ad adert \ ert smg sing$1 sing1 $1 1 $ 000 payroll kitchen walters walterspress waiterspress press agent manager $2 2 $ 500 1m 1men 1men en electric electnc ty incidentals mCldentals $1 1 $ 000 00t 000The > The enterprise breaks even on on$15 on15 $15 15 $ 000 a week gross intake mtake figur figurmg flguring mg food and liquor purchases at atabout atabout about one third thJrd the total receiptsOn receipts receiptsOn On $20 20 $ 000 the profit is $4 4 $ 000 000on 000on on $25 25 $ 000 $7 7 $ 500 500Corn Corn Off Oft the Cob-Lara Cob Lara Cob - Laraine me Day Dayfunously Dayfuriously funously hunting huntmg an apartment m mthe inthe the Sutton Plice Phce sector-she sector she sector - she s in interested interested terested in a legit show and wdnts wdntsto wantsto to park parI . here a . while v.lu1e vlu1e Henry Hull Hullwas Hullwas was summoned to fiy to Holly\\ Holly Hollyood Hollywoodto \ \ ood oodto to act in support of Charles Laugh Laughton Laughton ton and pressure was turned on to togot get him hlIl'l hlIll ' a reservation across the themtp themap mtp : The part was Sl six " mmutes minutesof of lying in m bed while Laughton Laughtonread Laughtonread read him the story of o ( David and andGol andGol Gol ath-out ath out ath - out of the Bible June JuneHaver JuneHaver Haver s sister Evelyn hurrying hurrymg to toN toN N Y to be a model toI . 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