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Show PHI 1 J 1 I l.M Tlt 1 Man About Town: Broadway Confetti: Passing an apartment the other day we heard some music. It brought us up short. It was beautiful. Here's the low-down: low-down: It won't be released until May. Watch it click. The name ol the ditty: "RockhV Horse Cowboy" (words and tune by Tony Starr and Frank Capano), recorded by Frankie Carle. The vocalulu Is by Marjorie Hughes. . . . Murray Win-ant's Win-ant's kiddie album, "It's Fun To Eat," is a click. He will do several albums taking all child problems I off your headaches. . . . Street j scene in Washington Square: Little 7-year-young Susan Greenberg (in the early yawning), who has the honor of giving Fala his daily stroll. From all those reports of American looting in Germany Ger-many you'd gather that we have divested the Germans of everything every-thing but pro-Hitlerites. Reports from there Indicate that nationalism nation-alism again is on the rise. Well, you can't blame 'em. From the way we've been treating them, they are bound to think THEY won the war! The Stage Door: Paulette God-dard, God-dard, twitted for exotic evening dress (without hosiery), observed the following afternoon ankling (and such ankles) along Vth avenue with more sensible covering. . . . Leonora Corbett of the British stage is a new Yankee Doodle Dandy. . . . Not too many playgoers know it, but "The Importance of Being Earnest" Ear-nest" was dashed off by Oscar Wilde when he was happily married, mar-ried, and not after his famous fumble. . . . Clark Gable told reporters re-porters he considered himself lucky to wind up with $1,000 after a year of earning $6,000 weekly. Lucky is right. One columnist we know (he makes almost twice that much) winds up owing his heirs 10 times what Gable keeps. Midtown Vignette: One of those naive, gullible, midtown husbands was finally told that his Mrs. was giving him the Old Razioo. . . . "We'll show yon with your own eyes," said a pal. . . . They went to a movie theater and, sure enough, there she was (necking like anything) In the next-to-last row with a fella. . . . They watched the whole thing and then left. . . . "Well?" said the pal. . . . "So what?" was the answer. "I don't even know the guy!" The Press Box: A Detroit daily neatly nutshelled: "The basic task at the Moscow conference will not be to make peace with Germany but to keep peace among the Allies." Al-lies." . . . Since the end of the war, American taxpayers have shelled out half a billion to solve Germany's problems. A fraction of that sum would solve the housing problem of American war vets. . . . Both John L. Lewis and Joe Stalin have discovered dis-covered that when Uncle Sam runs out of patience you will start running run-ning for cover. Hitler also discovered discov-ered that. In short: America's answer an-swer to the Iron curtain is an Iron fist! ... Washington bizmen report that biz has tobogganed 32 per cent (in the last six months) because of government payroll slashes. The Irony of the Week: It was Just a short paragraph on an inside in-side page, but the Irony of the yarn packed more of dramatic dra-matic wallop than any playwright play-wright could concoct: Many Germans are now trying to b converted to the Jewish faith Ik the hope that it will make it easier for them to get a visa to the United States! We only regret that the Jewi those Germans helped slaughter slaugh-ter didn't live lo view the spectacle spec-tacle of their cowardly tormentors tormen-tors trying to hide behind the religion they hit from behind. Colyumemos: Herbert Lehman told a group seeking donations that he Is unemployed for the first time in his life, with no prospect of a Job In sight. Then he donated $45,000. . . . Victor Gilbert's millionaire parent built (for him) a hotel in Ridgeflcld. Conn., which cost $200.. 000. It makes most other hotels its size look like hobotels. TheToe for a weekend is only $200. . . . After reading a vignette here about Ben Grauer (the radlorator) losing heavily at a gaming casino In Havana, Ha-vana, the New York state Income tax department sent Crauer a $395 refund. . . . Thot'i love department: Dr. reter Llndstrom flew In from the coast (In risky weather) to spend two days with his beloved wife, Ingrld one-guess. Sounds In the Night: In the Mermaid Mer-maid room: "Some big name actors have talent, but most have press agents." ... In the Copocabana: "She didn't mind his wife, at all. She Just couldn't stand his girl friends." . . At Howie's: "Instead of giving Hollywood newlywcds best wishes, everybody gives them odds." ... At Yank Sing: "He does the stage more ham than good." ... In Bradley's: "Many a true word Is spoken in whispers." ... At Pallinl's: "A to pical society triangle .-him, his wife and her money." |