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Show Man About Town NOTES TO A NEWSPAPERMAN: The state department is actually to blame for the U. S. being overrun by Soviet agents. There's an immigration immigra-tion law in this country which states that no Russian Communist or for-mer for-mer Red can get a visa to enter here. But in 1933 a law was passed admitting admit-ting any person on a visa that would further the commercial interests of the United States. Literally hundreds hun-dreds of "commercial Russian attaches" at-taches" gained entry here under this law. They came ostensibly for trade purposes but in reality are Russian GPU agents. NEW YORKERS ARE TALKING AUOL'T: Goering's widow, Emmy, ex-actress. She was refused permis-sion permis-sion to return to the German stage by U. S. authorities, so she will become be-come a Berlin night club "freak" attraction at-traction . . . The East Side shop which features hand-painted umbrellas umbrel-las from $lf 0 up . . . Henry Wallace's daughter, who (intimates report) is payiiii' a high price for his follytics. She can t take the Jibes, etc., and "is so ashamed." . . . Virginia Leigh, the deb, allegedly nursing a shattered heart over the youthful heir to a mint . . . The Hollywood starlet who side-stepped a scandal by suddenly divorcing her groom. Gov't agents are busy checking hij dope purchases. In the Pentagon the other luncheon lunch-eon Gen. Toobey Spaatx was listening listen-ing to a group of air force execs discuss Finlcttcr's "Survival in the Air Age." This "must" book for every American says the Russians Rus-sians will have the A-bomb by January 1, 1953. Spaatz, who resigned re-signed recently, sighed apd mumbled: mum-bled: "That means four more years of fishing." BROADWAY DICTIONARY: Chump: The guy who picks up your check . . . Heel: The guy who expects ex-pects you to pick up your bwn . . . Etiquette: Not interrupting when someone's praising you . . . Rou: The guy who scores with the gals who snub you . . . Chivalry: Giving the wife credit for the- flop you are . . . Charity: Forgiving anyone who did you a favor . . . Chiseler: A guy who expects to get paid back. Memos of a Mldnighter: Mar- lene Dietrich is amused when she reads about the gems she wears "coming from a mysterious admirer." admir-er." She bought every hunk herself . . The lad who wrote the hitune, "Time Oui for Tears," can have himself a good cry even though hit ditty is doing fine. The gal who inspired in-spired it Just got married! . . . Violinist Louis Kaufman, whose fiddling fid-dling you've heard in the background of over 400 flickers, has shelved H'wood for the concert halls . . . Some penny-arcades now sell Jel-licd-applcs-on-the-stick at 30 cents the belly-ache. One of our pet yarns about Eisenhower Eis-enhower concerns his contempt for yes-men. . Ike once told one of them: "I want you to figure out some things which are wrong with this army camp. You make me uncomfortable un-comfortable by always agreeing with me. I feci that you either don't say what you think or that you are aa big a fool as I am!" New York Story: It happened cember 29, 1947, at the gay Winter Ball in the Waldorf-Astoria . . The crowd was having a grand time, dancing when a clumsy football player play-er accidentally kicked little Nancy Councilman . . . She's a Norfolk, Vs., debeaut . . . When Nancy fainted some spectators thought she was puuing on an act . . . "wnat i-a-mai-er. kid?" a voice heckled. "Canchs take it?" . . . This is to report to the football player, et al, that Nancy's Nan-cy's leg was amputated right here in Our Town . . . Where she came to have a good time. The Intelligentsia: R. Ingersoll'i "The Great Ones" is climbing into the best seller lists. Went from 22nd to 14th place just like that . . . PatiT Ruth Miller is doing a play on anU-communism. anU-communism. She's the former film favorite . . . Laval's memwars an going begging . . . Allegedly "exposes" "ex-poses" Churchill, Chamberlain and other Allied diplomats with Lavil white-wash . . . Newest mag to joia the field is called "Glance." Tat editor Is Edythe Farrell, who madi a respectable lady out of the Polict Gazette . . . "Caldwell Week" wil celebrate Erskine Caldwell's netf eight million sale of his 25-ceat Penguin-Signet editions. . . .'TheJ brought him almost $100,000 roy ties in two years . . , Whnt a M laugh . . . Margery Sharp's ne hovel. "Tht Foolish Gentlewoman." will be June Book-of-the-Month. Att'n J. Harrington, the column boss on the Honolulu Advertir: This la tha very lowdown on statehood for Hawaii Is being staUd In Congress. While you probibU would be one of the two new U. senators the second, certain pcfl,, fear, would be a Japanese . . . cause, they add: "42 per cent of t voters In Hawaii are Japan Americans" . . . Sech a reason! |