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Show Ill Editor's Note: While Winehell Is on vacation, Jack Lait is act-j act-j ing as guest columnist Miscellaneous Midgets ! The Windsors will return to Amer-j Amer-j ica next winter. The Riviera bores ; them. Their villa is still mined and they have to tread narrow paths, marked out for them. . . . The Robert Rob-ert Youngs, New Yorkers who entertained en-tertained Eddie and Wally at New-I New-I port last summer, are abroad and ! have visited them. Young, a business busi-ness tycoon, has offered the duke a I post with one of his companies. . . . j It is unlikely that commerce will i attract Windsor; even more unlike-I unlike-I ly that his family, which controls his income, would sanction it Odds I are that he will buy a house in Palm j Beach, where he and his duchess j have many friends. . . . "Doc" Hoi- j ', den, who was Fifl Widener Wich- j feld's second husband, is believed ! ! to be Windsor's undercover flnan- j cial agent In New York. Contacted j at Newport he refused to discuss j his associations with royalty. I The Duke family is in the movie ' ; business. And Doris is active in person. The tobacco millions are helping finance Independent Artists, Inc., which includes in its roster Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and her husband, Dudley Nichols and , Frank Vincent. . . . Hermitage Press will publish, on Oct. 5. the new book by Nick Kenny, "How to Write, Sing I and Sell Popular Songs." What Nick doesn't know about the Intricate, slightly crazy business wouldn't in- I terest anyone. Among the mass of ! ; material will be an expose of j j song racketeers. j Caveman, Get Your Club Raymond Loewy, the artistic ; industrial designer (of autos and what not) has a 750 hp. cruiser, the Media Luz, which he designed, berthed at the esoteric eso-teric Sands Point (L. I.) Riviera. Rivi-era. When Loewy expects guests, he sprays his cabins with a perfume labeled Savage Love! Midtown Matinee (By Tom Weath-erly). Weath-erly). It was a southbound Fifth avenue bus. She got on at 57th street. . . . With apologies to Rogers and Hart: My heart stood still. . . . "This is it," I thought . . . Never before had I seen. . . . Such a seraphic vision. ... All pink and goid. . . . With shimmering gray-blue gray-blue stars for eyes. ... A red, red rosebud for a mouth. . . . And a tip-tilted tip-tilted nose. ... My pulse raced. ... My head reeled. . . . And my knees clicked together. . . . "There comes a time In the affairs of men, etc." ... I said to me. . . . And. brother, this is the time. . . . Watch her closely. . . . When she gets off. . . . You get off. . . . Then tip your hat . . . Gallantly but with decorum. deco-rum. . . . And say something like this. ... "I beg your pardon, please don't misunderstand. . . . I'm not trying to be fresh. ... But I just couldn't help speaking to you. . . . All my life I've dreamed about a girl. ... I never knew her name. ... I never even knew she existed. exist-ed. .. . Until just now. ... In other words. . . . You're the dream come true. . . . And I couldn't let a stupid stu-pid convention take you from me. . . . I've just got to know you." . . . Just then the bus stopped and she moved toward the exit. ... As she came opposite me. . . . She raised her left hand to grasp the stanchion. . . . And there they were. . . . Those two symbols of possessive posses-sive priority and self-imposed servitude. servi-tude. . . . The diamond solitaire and the platinum band. . . . Oh, well, there's always the French Foreign Legion I The average honest nightclub draws about $20,000 u year on its ' concessions, usually half their gross intake. . . . This is frequently paid in advance, often two or more years' quota at the start, to finance the I j venture. . . . Banks lend money to i I concession contractors on prospects. : trusting their keen judgment, based ' on Intensive experience. . . One ' j typical club let us see its books. ' It grosses $21,000 a week, counting I , all sources. . . . The original Invest-' Invest-' ment was $105,000. of which the con- ! j ccssionaire put up $."0,(HK). . . ' i Shows and two bands iplus relief ; j bands on nights off) cost $5,000 a week; costumes, dance directors, ! etc., amortized. $:00; advertising". I $1,000; payroll, kitchen, waiters. press agent, manager. $2,500, lin' I en. electricity. Incidentals. $l,ooo. : j ... The enterprise breaks even ori ! ! $15.000-a-week gross Intake, flgur- ' ing food and liquor purchases at 1 about one-third the total receipts ' ! ... On $20,000. the profit Is $ ooo- on $25,000. $7,500. Com Off the Con-Lara inc Day furiously hunting an apartment in the Sutton Place sector she's In-tcrested In-tcrested In a legit show and wants to park here a while Henry Hull 1 was summoned to fly to Hollywood to act In support of Charles Laugh- i ton. and pressure was turned on to get hjm a reservation across the ' map. The "part" w0l gix minutes ! of lying in bed. while Laughton read him the story of David nnd Goliath-out of the Bible. . June ! Haver's lister. Evelyn, hurrying to N. Y. to be a model. i |
