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Show Word Jugglers Ely Culbertson: "A dream of a Prince Charming often stands between be-tween a man and a woman; an ideal yardstick a woman picks up in her childhood and with which she clubs her husband" . . . Jan Struther In her book, "Mrs. Miniver": "You cannot successfully navigate the future fu-ture unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past" . . . R. Eoelofs Jr.'s: "A straight line is the shortest distance between two points but it hasn't any Interesting angles" . . . Suggestions for a Hitler's office wall from Time and Your Life: "Neighbors can make friends but only enemies can make allies" ... "A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it." Story Tellers A letter from a Britisher to his small son refugee-ed to the States will break the hearts of those who read it. la Good Housekeeping . . . The price of trying to be a good American is listed by Dale Kramer in "The American Fascists" (Harper's). (Harp-er's). He cites the shameful figures that in New York only 106 Fascists were prosecuted in 1939 against 127 who were fighting them! . . . Many mags are now covering the muddy ground of dictator stooges in the U. S. and others on the bund-wagon. Most of the data isn't new, but it must never stop being news. The best way to put them on the spot is to put them in the spotlight. Headliners Bob Hope's eyebrow-lifter: "Motion "Mo-tion pictures haven't developed a comedian" . . . What about a feller named Cholly Chaplin? . . . Dorothy Lamour's remarkable remark: "Men are not all alike" . . . Except, she means, when they're alone with a gel in a keb . . . Cary Grant's grunt: "I get mad when people stare at me when I eat" . . . Lissen, Cary. When people lose their interest inter-est in actors actors invariably stop eating. Memos of a Girl Friday Eudy Vallee and Francisca Sims, the Conover beauty, are more than a telephone conversation. Tells chums they may marry. The Treasury Dept. and tax men have a wonderful stunt to trap tax evaders who gamble heavily at the tracks and who report not being able to pay . . . Those suspected have their photos taken by hidden candid cameras (usually in back of a coat lapel). Montes and Fernandez, the Rainbow Rain-bow Room dancers, are delightful. But they may bust up because she wants to continue at the Met Opera House . . . Andy Anderson's moider yarn, "Kill One, Kill Two" which is going big, got his atmosphere writing writ-ing it during his spare time at a rear desk in the Associated Press "morgue" . . . Willson Woodside's story: About the two Italians meeting meet-ing on a street in Rome. "How are you?" asked the first . . . "Better, thank you," said the other . . . "Better?" "Bet-ter?" said the first . . . "Yes," was the retort, "better than next year!" I suppose you know that Hitler is said to have warned Mussolini not to sink any British ships in the Mediterranean Med-iterranean that Hitler has sunk in the North sea. The Ashland drug store on Madison Madi-son near Thirty-second street, according ac-cording to a customer, hs this sign displayed above the soda counter: "Roosevelt or Willkie. McNary or Wallace. Winchell or Beanie. May the best man win. God Bless America!" Amer-ica!" . . . Understand Mr. Jolson's investment in his new hit "Hold On To Your Hats" totals $82,000. Much excitement over at WMCA. Seems that James Roosevelt's film, "Pastor Hall," opens at the Globe next week, and Mrs. Roosevelt, his mama, had agreed to speak about it over that station between 8 and 8:30 . . . Couldn't be cleared, however, because the commercial at that time is bought by Elliott Roosevelt! . . . Recently we reported a group in the U. S. would start a "Hate England!" campaign. Yesterday's Trib frontpaged: front-paged: "Steuben Club to 'Expose' British in U. S." Is this suggestion for Britain's counter-attacks on Berlin too terrible: terri-ble: "Brit'sh-kriegs"? . . . Veri-well Veri-well . . . The O'Keefe quote: "Willkie "Will-kie thinks it is high time FDR became be-came a postage tamp!" brought this phone call from Harriet G. Walsh of Syracuse: "That," niftied La Walsh, "might be the only way he can be licked!" Man About Town: The Barbizon hotel (for women) was in a ditheroo the other eve'g. Phone ops couldn't op and omigoodness it was awful: The reason Franchot Tone was in the lobby calling for one of the guests . . . Aida Alvarez, who did Spanish dances at La Conga, and M. Rubin, the co-owner, will soon wed . . . Ethelyne Holt (she started a hat fad years ago after wearing a mannish fedora in a Camel ad) makes her operatic, debut with Nino Martini in "La Boheme" on the thir. tieth in Puerto Rico. |