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Show MR I Tale of the Town: NBC's Ben Grauer reports thai Albert Einstein, the top mathematician mathema-tician and atomic bomb authority, likes to relax with a violin. Recently Recent-ly he invited the renowned pianist, Arthur Schnabel, to his home for a musical week-end. They were running through a rather rath-er involved Mozart sonata and Einstein Ein-stein was having some trouble playing. play-ing. Finally, after several explanations, explana-tions, Schnabel got irritated. He bunged his hands down on the keyboard key-board and groaned: "No, no, Albert For heaven's sakes, can't you count? One, two, three, four. . . ." Ain't It the Truth: On One 5th Avenue, a patron was telling a bartender bar-tender his views on the atomic world. "Jet planes, sky highways and there'll even be machines as bartendersl These machines will do j everything you do!" I "Mebbeso," said the bartender, I "but those machines wouldn't last j a week. They might mix you a i drink and hand it to you but no machine would ever put up with some of the lushes we meet!" Qulteso, Qulteso: Marie MacDon-aid, MacDon-aid, Just arrived for the premiere of her latest film ("Getting Gertie's Garter"), was asked if she wasn't bored with people who keep calling call-ing her The Body. "No," said Marie, "I found out that In Hollywood a gal can't get anywhere by being referred to as The Brain." Arlene Francis relays the one about the Hollywood producer who squawked when he got an estimate depicting Civil war scenes. It was for $1,000,000. "Why, you money wasters!" barked the producer. "The battle between the North and the South didn't cost $750,000!" "The original battle," snapped an accountant, "was a flop." Boo, Y'self! Boris Karloff met Bela Lugosl the other mlddle-of-the-night and compared notes. "I had a wonderful day," said Karloff, "I picked up three more corpses!" "Y'don't say!" said Lugost. "That's wonderful. You must come to my house some time and see my bathtub full of blood!" "I'd love to," exclaimed Boris. "What's your phone number?" "Call me any time," giggled Bela. "I'm at PLazma 9-2259." A Hollywood star and a West Coast "Dorothy Parker" haven't talked for years. They met at a party the other day, and the actress purred: "The critics all say my latest picture is a must." "That makes two In a row," said the other. "You mussed up the last one, tool" New Yorkers are talking about President Truman's very good friend from Missouri, who recently went to the White House for a favor. "My boy is overseas, and his old mother may not live. Can you help me bring him home right away?" I Mr. Truman obliged. ... A few ! weeks later the same old pal went to see the President for another "break." ... He hoped Mr. Truman could arrange the transfer of some factories (in the reconversion manner) man-ner) for him. "It would put me on Easy Street," said the Old Pal. . . . "Now look here," said Truman sternly, "helping get your boy back to see his ailing mother was human. Don't ask me to fix anything in which money is Involved. I'm not going go-ing to be part of any Harding administration!" ad-ministration!" New Yorkers are talking about the headaches Paul McNutt will Inherit when he lands in the Philippines. . . . Blanche Faye'i new understudy role (to G. Niesen) in "Follow the Girls," a funny show. . . . The digest mag which expects to have a circulation circu-lation of forty million one day. If Russia permits It there. . . . Greta Garbo's spurning of the leading role In "Bella Donna" because, she said, she will never again play the part of a sinful woman. . . . The exclUng Warner short titled: "Hitler Lives?" . . . The record night at a mldtown spot: $10,000 (on the Sat. night of the army game). . Burl Ives and Helen Payne, who cancelled their merger plans recently, deciding to wed in the next fortnight. . . . Playwright Play-wright Lillian Hellman switching producer! after all those successful I yearsl . . . The backers of a flop show who complained to the D. A. Saturday about the alleged misuse of their monies. A producer and associates as-sociates will be investigated. . The fact that If you dial the letters MAE WEST on your phone (tce-hee), (tce-hee), you always get a busy signal sig-nal I New Yerkers Are Talking About: The $100,000 per annum offer J. Edgar Ed-gar Hoover turned down recently to quit the FBL He didn't want to be "window dressing" for the firm's product. . . . That fight In an East Side swank spot, which ended hu-mgrously. hu-mgrously. The tuxedoed fellow and his elegant Mrs. (who started the fracn) were both knocked flat, . . . The much publicised glamour girt, onct wed to a millionaire, who hocked her mink coat for $300. She was the one wife (of his many) wno refused any settlement or alimony. |