Show Atom Alom Scare In Washington Washington was frightened out ol of olIts Its it dreams dream the Ule other night when the most violent thunder and storm Ive I've ever witnessed the capital It broke about a a. a m rn m. m and lasted several hours hour Next day wherever you went from Irom the White House ouse to Harveys Harvey's restaurant restaurant i irant rant the people all said the tile same thing I thought Russia dropped an bomb A-bomb on us The lightning just didn't stop and the boom-boom boom of a zillion rolling drums bass-drums made me wonder if that isn't exactly exact exact- ly what our men go through up front during war A devoutly religious woman said Nobody can make me believe God didn't arrange it just that way way right right over Washington D D. C. C so all aU the wicked men at the Pentagon would be reminded of 01 what war sounds like when It gets close Sounds In the Night At the Harem a comedian was bragging how he wowed em at Miami for tor two weeks I wowed em in Chicago before be be- fore tore that he he added and I was wa wasa wasa a wow in Frisco tool You must h a v e interrupted Wally the act in show I business I At the Encore someone someone some some- one was reading aloud the news that Hollywood publisher Billy Wilkerson led Lana Turner down the aisle for tor her fourth marriage To which Dot She i been able to do it blindfolded Robert Roberl Merrill the Met star Itar was telling an opera one of 01 his first Jobs was at al Youngs Gap hotel In the Catskills serving meals Oh Ob said the critic In those days you yon were a singing walter waiter In those days sighed Merrill MerrUl I was a waiting singer linger Manhattan Murals The elevator operator at E. E who still wears his battered air corps hat up up- downing and-downing his plane The blood bank on street for tor the Palestine wounded The sign in inthe inthe inthe the window of a street treet Russian restaurant Dishes for Democratic gourmets The Columbus avenue ave aye nue delicatessen which advertises The New Lox Once a heckler caused the death of a great star to hear argue it h Literally not It happened at the Palace In 1913 His name was Nat Wills a beloved beloved be be- loved tramp comic The headliner head head- liner was ivas Sarah Bernhardt It was the opening matinee a and d Sarah went over big The clapping kept kepton on long after alter she took her last bow Wills made the boner of coming I on stage The audience broke Into heavier applause and an usher who waited too long handed a 8 huge bokay of posies over the footlights They were for Sarah of course Wills mo mo- tinned to her to come on stage and take them He removed his hi hat hatIn hatin In great respect to her But a heckler yelled Give em to Wills Hes He's dying Two Two-a-dayers Insist the cruel crack ruined mined the sensitive Wills He was never the same after alter it A few years later he died of carbon monoxide ide poisoning In his garage Broadway never stopped wonder wonder- ing Bernard whose advice Is widely sought Is I. considered by many to be the smartest man la to the country He lIe wears a hearing aid ald A well known politico often oCten een seen with Baruch was asked If U Barney Darney still had trouble with his hearing I really dont don't know V he be re re- re plied piled when Im I'm with I 1 Just listen The Tile Press Pres Box Dox Simple to savvy the diplomatic scrambling If it you remember re reo member that the international crisis now has reached the stage where nations na na- na- na lions are more more concerned with mill mili tary positions than moral standards Sudden Appeasement can only give us a peace to end all aU peace The reports about the dominated Russian nations are tak ing merely Indicate that the Kremlin drove out the Nazis In order to Install In In- In- In stall tall communistic slot lot machines In Lu a Bronx shop haberdasher a patron was wa blowing blowin lila his top about the President Everything be he does eloes make makes me mad madl madi he be barked Dont Don get n apoplexy shrugged the storekeeper lie cant can't help It II It U Just doesn't happen happe fa to o be his line Une had I N. N N If Washington L Chitchat t One Ono New York paper Is 11 preparing an expose that'll theU fracture the country countr It alleges that the head bead of t r. greatly publicized congressional committee committe was a member of the Klan In 1025 1923 Under his hi real name How lIw come editors haven't bavent tried getting an all interview with Frances Franc Crane heiress of ot o the plumbing firm for tor- tune She's She Jan Tan Masaryk's Maark wife ex reported still Wl bitter British officers say Mac MacArthur Arthur has baa more military know bow than any man since ince Napoleon |