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Show Ill Bigtourn Murals: AU the Broadway daytime crowdi gathering to watch a pussycat vainly stalk the pigeons who roost on the Iceland marquee . . . The dollar bill In the finance window near Columbus Colum-bus circle, with the caption: "I Want to Be a Loan" . . . The dignified looking man who ankles up and down Fifth avenue playing with one of those trick bow-ties. It lights up when girls approach. (Oh, you kid! ) . . . The sign in the men't room of a 10th avenue lunchroom: "Employees "Em-ployees must wash their hands." Pencilled below is: "And It wouldn't do the customers any harm either!" . . . The car in front of the Plaza with the Connecticut plates tagged SONG. It's Alec Templeton't . . . The oomphy cashier In the 60lh and Madison newsreel glass-cage box office, who gets umpteen offers daily that start with: "Baby, why don'tcha lemme take you away from ill this?" John Barrymore (once called John Barleycorn) was appearing in a flop play. The critics devastated devas-tated it and him. He came to the second performance cold sober. "I told you," roared the producer, pro-ducer, "not to show up drunk!" "If I wasn't," he said, "do yon think I'd show up?" Midtown Vignette: Where else but In Our Town could you find this hilarious scene. He's a beer executive execu-tive . . . Recently remarried . . . Very young bride . . . When he gets tired so does his face ... A daily mud pack facial at the Waldorf barber bar-ber shop is a ritual . . . Very restless rest-less . . . Can't stay in the chair or "un-lax" waiting for the black-green mud on his puss to dry ... So he walks up and down the place im-patiently im-patiently . , . Glaring at you through his ridiculous-looking beauty treatment treat-ment ... He also has a bath towel draped around his conk turban style . . . Scares the bejabers outta ya . . . The big howl came the other day . . . Our Hero was stomping up and down in his wild get-up (turban and mud pack) when in came two U.N. delegates from Arabia attired smartly in American apparel. They took one look at him and got hysterical Soldier $ of the Prest Probably the flghlingcst publisher of all was E. W. Scripps. He battled corruption in Cincy for three years before getting results. His free twinging style of journalism hatched many dangerous foes. As a result Scripps had bodyguards and was always al-ways well-armed. He was involved in many street fights and usually gave a good account of himself. Scripps was handy with his dukes and never ducked a bare-knuckle challenge. Of course, James Gordon Bennett fought tome of the fiercest brawlt in journalistic history. Nothing Noth-ing could stop the whip of his indignation indig-nation from snapping. At a result, Bennett and his family were the victims vic-tims of such unspeakable slander his wife and children were forced to leave the U. S. and live in Europe. But Bennett remained and continued tossing bombshells. Editor Henry Wattcrson once said: "It's not enough for a newspaper to report a fight it must fight on the right tide." At Bradley's one night a diplomat, diplo-mat, just back from Washington said: "The state department Is running our Middle East with a firm hand." "Zatzo?" snapped Ted Mack. "What's the name of the firm-Standard firm-Standard Oil?" Appeasement it taking a lacing . . . Our diplomats have planted wet kisses all over Pcron's two faces, and what did they reap? At the Pan-American huddle in Bogota, Argentina has been attempting to gum up the works by whizzing monkey-wrenches. The other day Peron't mouthpieces denounced proposali for Inter-American collective action against communism! In other words Fascist Tcron wants to make it easier for Communists to continue crawling, and the state department's excuse for embracing Argentina was that it would help ut stop the spread of communism. The difference between be-tween a Nazi, a Fascist and a Communist Com-munist is the difference between a skunk, a snake and a rat. Sounds In the Night: At Eddie Condon's: Con-don's: "She's one of the zeros In to-clcty's to-clcty's 400" ... At the Penthouse: "Love is what hns you coming and going nuts!" ... At Garrison's: "She hat a darling kisposition." , . . In the Stork: "He handed her hit usual routine." ... At Lisa Kirk't: "It't the old ttory. Once upon a two-time." Item: "Max Schmeling denied entry en-try into U. S." Let him cool hit heils. Headline: "RUSSIA AND FINLAND FIN-LAND SIGN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE TACT." That meant the Russians will do all they can to help the Finns help tht Russians. |