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Show BIS 1 tlPT753j-.:-;J Memos of a Girl Friday Dear Mr. W.: Madame Chinng Kai-shek is in the U. S. Her arrival was kept very sotto voce, as she was ill and in no mood to see anyone. any-one. Mervyn LeRoy and Jack Benny had a bet. Both swore to stop smoking smok-ing cigars, the first one to light up to forfeit $500. Jack promised to do a benefit, and he always smokes a cigar on the stage. Absent-mindedly, he lit one and had to forfeit the $.r00. Mervyn is donating It to charity . . . You can be sure that "Tobacco Road" is a hit picture. Darryl Zanuck. who has been reticent reti-cent about attaching his name to every production at Twentieth Century, Cen-tury, is prominently credited on this. The report on the state of Britain, which Harry Hopkins is bearing to FDR, is written on celluloid as well as on paper. As soon as he reaches the While House. Hopkins will exhibit exhib-it a film short tagged "This Is Eng. land," a gift from Herbert Morrison, Morri-son, home secretary, via Hopkins, to the President. Drew Pearson and Robert 8. Allen, Al-len, In an exclusive story in the March Issue of Click, administer a stinging reply to Sen. Burton K. Wheeler and meal new incriminat ing evidence on the late Senator Lundeen'i activities . . . They name George Sylvester Viereck and prove with affidavits that he was the "chief Nazi agert," who collaborated collaborat-ed with the late senator in furthering Nazi propaganda in America. This propaganda was mailed out under Lundeen'i frank. Euggestion; Why don't the "Bundles "Bun-dles for Britain" outfit, which is now offering cigarette cases, watches, etc., for British war relief, sell "R. A. F. fatigue ties"? They are worn by the fliers in the R. A. F. They're very ducky (black and red, I think) and most men would be proud to wear a necktie like that Ton might toss scalllons at NBC and the Mutual Network for not per-m'tting per-m'tting the Greek War Relief pro- gram to be broadcast over the independent inde-pendent New York stations. If those smaller stations had carried It, their listeners would have had an opportunity oppor-tunity of hearing the program and the appeal, and swell the funds with their contributions. Marian Anderson, the thrush, has moved In on the D. A. R. territory with a vengeance. She Just bought a home in the snooty Brewster, N. Y.,' sector. Your Girl Friday. Private Tapers of a Cub Reporter After the premiere of a new show, some of the first-nighters who were talking about it at the Hurricane were overheard to say: "Boy, they sure knocked that show, didn't they?' "Yeah." said Harriet Hilllard, "A regular first-knife audience." Somebody asked Bobby Byrne, the kid bandleader, how it feels to be in the big dough with a commercial airshow. "To me," Bobby said, "the only difference between a $25 suit and a $60 suit is that a $00 suit has only one pair of pants." Clare Boothe tells this about her trip to Rome last spring. She noticed no-ticed how Incongruous it was to see all the famous ruins right in the heart of the city. She asked about it and the answer was: "Mussolini has an Imperator complex, and since he it unable to build an em pire the only thing he can do is excavate one I" What this country apparently needs Is more flying heroes in planet Instead of in politics. The G-Men are holding a "John Brown," who was caught with copies cop-ies of applications for Nazi spy work. The chump doesn't know what a good Nazi he is. With his record at thief and forger, forg-er, plus two Sing Sing terms, he could be a big man in Berlin maybe may-be at the head of the bureau of education! The Detroit Times editor forwards the scoop that Mr. Knudsen's name is not pronounced "Ka-noo-sen," at his colleague Leon Henderson stated stat-ed the other day. And it isn't pronounced pro-nounced "Ka-noodsen," either, at a countrywoman of the defense chief wrote us. It Is: "Nood-sen," as some of us contended right along. "That't the way we pronounce it," explained Martha Nood-sen, "I'm sure father pronounces It that way." The films rewrote Maugham's story, sto-ry, "The Letter." to make Bette Davis Da-vis die at the finish. This was necessary neces-sary because Mist Davis was a murderess. mur-deress. The movie censors' penal code orders that all criminals must be punished for their crimes. Verlwell. But the half-caste woman wom-an (known as the Eurasian eraser) daggered Bette and got off toot-free. toot-free. So did the lawyer who suborned a witness to save Bette't neck a disbarring offense. And what about Herbert Marshall, whe supplied the coin to fix the witness? |