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Show DM I Man About Town: The Charlie Chaplin-Paulette God-dard God-dard bustup is in the offing. They've finaUy agreed to the division of the spoils . . . It's another image over at the War Correspondent H. R. Knickerbockers. He's in Australia , . . When Louise Atwill divorced General MacArthur (to wed actor Lionel Atwill) someone asked her why she divorced the hero. "Oh," was the champion eating-your-words crack of all time, "I was just exchanging ex-changing a few small stars for one big one!" The boys in the camps are sizzling over Rita Hayworth's husband (Eddie (Ed-die Judson) for demanding a 30G settlement. They rate her the "nicest "nic-est dish of all" . . . Isn't Japambas-sador Japambas-sador Nomura's brother in Mexico as a Jap navy specialist in hydro-graphic hydro-graphic surveys? Mexico might find it advantageous to dig him up. r -. Mrs. O. O. Mclntyre has been offered of-fered a colyum job after the manner man-ner of the late New York chronicler . . . Here's something different in items: A B'wayite is suing a col-yumist col-yumist for saying he was a gyp. The case is due shortly and he's in the hoosegow on a burglary charge! ... An Upstater sought by G-Men m the lottery expose was right in Mr. Hooven's outer office at the time. He was wild to be a G-Man! Buy Defense Bonds Richard Whitney, who paid his debt to Zoociety, has offered himself him-self to the armed forces in any y. form. So far no takers . . . From ' forty entries Shemp Howard was voted the homeliest man in Hollywood. Holly-wood. The judges were Virginia Bruce, Priscilla Lane and Anne Gwynne . . . Variety rejects some of the slang in "The American Thesaurus The-saurus of Slang," claiming they have a phony ring. All the phrases listed sound "manufactured," which slanguage can't be. Slang is slang for the same reason that a man is tough: It can't help it. Lord Beaverbrook says Hess is still in a London (not Ontario) prison, pris-on, as suspected . . . Mr. and Mrs. Goe Shing Wong of 398 Mass Ave., South End, Boston, have named j their new-born Douglas We Win 'f Wong . ... Midtowners are laughing laugh-ing over the big shot who threw a party at the Copa for Hollywood people peo-ple and paid off with a check that bounced . . . The FBI took away three Fifth Avenue department store employees suspected of Nazi activities. Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Wireless: There's the makings mak-ings of a nice feud in the Elmer Davis-H. V. Kaltenborn disagreement. disagree-ment. Davis took Kaltenborn's labor la-bor blast apart piece by piece and said "Nh-nh" to the charges, it claims it's the old demand for lower wages wearing a new frock ... All those quips on the radio about tires ' are wearing thin ... A must of the week is the '"This Is War" program. Big-time playwriting . . . Midget Joe Goebbels' spring styles in lies are being exhibited by some of the commentators. Goebbels is building build-ing a Bolshy scare, in case the Nazi offensive fizzles. The American dopes couldn't be more obliging to him. Buy Defense Bonds The Front Pages: A statesman laughed off the hysteria of that Chicago ayemer. "A rag that styles itself the world's greatest newspaper," newspa-per," he said, "has to pitch the rest of its reading matter in the same farce key" . . . Lieut.-Gen'l Jonathan Jona-than M. Wainwright authored a dispatch dis-patch that belongs to America's catalogue of inspired words. The Japs sent an ultimatum to surrender to Gen. MacArthur's successor. He reported it to Washington, adding the glorious postscript: "No reply was necessary and none was made" . . . Raymond Clapper cabled a line from the Far East which should be a good tip to US industry. He wrote: "China lias more pilots than planes." ' The Story Tellers: Could Milton Mayer's piece in the SEP be the cause of the big walkout? Race discrimination dis-crimination is nothing new. The Irish were abused over here for half a century. As recent as the Blaine-Cleveland Blaine-Cleveland campaign the antis raised "the Irish question." It is all reported re-ported in "The Story of Scapegoats in History," a pamphlet by Kenneth M. Gould . . Another pamphlet, "Greece Fights," relates a wheeze about Benito. A painting of Old Baldy, hung in a Greek town, was mutilated. A fine of 10 drachmas was assessed against every inhabitant. inhabi-tant. All paid twenty, explaining that covered tomorrow's mutilation. Buy Defense Bonds Jay C. Flippen of "Hellzapoppin," was looking at Ilka Chase's autobiography auto-biography and observed: "A person per-son must be very careful these days the stage doorman may be writing writ-ing his memoirs!" . . . Another gal who scorched her set in print retorted retort-ed to cries of "Shame! "with this: "But I made sacrifices to write my book. The royalties I got didn't come near the hush money I passed up!" . . . What this country needs are mort Gen'l MacArthurs and less Gen'l Nuisances. |