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Show I'llliyj Sallies in Our Alley The Naked City: Her name was Ann Parrish ... A 19-year-old kid . Came here from the stix two years ago . . . With a flaming yen to be an actress . . . She had no "contacts" ... No nothin' . . . Just ambition . . . Lived in a furnished fur-nished room ... In the 100s . . . Went to a dramatic school . . . Her story is similar to hundreds you hear around Broadway . . . These kids live in smelly hall bedrooms . . . When they could be home with the family in comparative luxury . Like other kids her age she loved oandy bars . . . Pastries and ice cream sodas . . . Then she thought she was getting too plump to get a role in a flop ... So she went on one of those diets . . . When she had dizzy spells, her doc warned her . . "But there's a chance in a new show," she said . . . The other ayem when her alarm clock went off it frightened her to death, the coroner reported . . . She achieved in death what she couldn't in life . . . The newspapers, quoting the coroner, said: "Occupation, actress." Man About Town: Gael Sullivan of Mr. Truman's brain-trust will resign if Jim Farley is taken into Demmy councils. ... Ed Pauley, the Prez's pal, told chums in California Cali-fornia he wouldn't be surprised "if the donkey nomination went to Ike." . . . Carlyle Blackwell, ex-film ex-film star, was badly hurt when two bulldogs jumped him while out for a stroll in Miami Beach. Howcum the state department is allowing Max Schmeling a passport to come here and fight. at his age of 43? Didden he do enough fighting fight-ing for Adolf? ... In the Stork the other night Randolph Churchill remarked re-marked he was departing for London. Lon-don. . .'. "Oh ho," said Wwhal Wwag, "duckin' the draft, eh?" . . . Mike Romanoff is now the West coast Billy Rose with mor'n 8C papers carrying his col'm. . . . Billy, himself, after struggling for years to become famed as a showman, songwriter, art collector, storyteller, story-teller, magazine essayist and col-yumist, col-yumist, winds up with the nickname; "Broadway Rose." Governor Folsom of Alabam-wham-thank-ya, ma'am, had this comment on the N. Y. gazettes' roastings of his recent kissing spree: "Awl Ah wanta know," he said, "were mah name spelt raht?" . . . Diamond merchants say Bobo's ring cost Rockefeller 42 Gs. . . . Skewp: Bioggers insist that "S" in Mr. Truman's Tru-man's name is merely an initial. It stands for Shippe (rhymes with Mississippi), according to an old dinner guest list at a Providence, R. I., St. Patrick's Day affair. Our biggest worry isn't foreigners for-eigners who think we have all the money in the world. It's those Americans who think wer have all the time. Eunice Skelly, widow of star Hal Skelly, finally has won $100,000 settlement set-tlement from the N. Y., N. H. and Hartford railroad for the accident that killed Hal 16 years ago. . . . Marcel Vertes, fashion illustrator, has turned to cartooning in his latest book, "It's All Mental." Even psychiatrists psy-chiatrists howl at it. . . . Latest feud is between Henry Morgan and Carl Brisson because Henry called him the "male Hildegarde." . . . Clothing Cloth-ing mfrs. are openly discussing (in New York hotel foyers) their "hundreds "hun-dreds of thousands" of orders for uniforms. . . . Botany Mills (biggest of wool factories) has started production pro-duction of khaki cloth, again. . . . The $237,000 Florida Governor Caldwell Cald-well won in a libel suit from Collier's will be turned over to A & M, the Negro college. "Dear WW," writes J. W. Stower of the Detroit Times, "if you feel that newsboys benefit from the experience, we'd like your thoughts on it." The best way to start any career ca-reer is selling newspapers on street corners. For one thing you meet a better class of people and, for another, they meet you. The Cinemagicians: A generally acceptable tear-tugger, "The Miracle Mir-acle of the Bells" gets its applause expressed in long sighs. When the yarn threatens to be mired in sentimental senti-mental goo, it is rescued by Valli, MacMurray and Sinatra. . . . "The Challenge" is a passable sleuth-happy sleuth-happy chiller that scares up several tingles. . . . "Mary Lou" has a frail script playing second fiddle to F. Carle's pianoing. ... "Spring," a Russian import, is the most ludicrous ludi-crous Kremlin product since Vi-shinsky's Vi-shinsky's last pop-off. . . . "Marshal of Cripple Creek" tells how the fearless fear-less law-enforcer got those pretty little notches on his shootin' irons. What a Switch! Dept.: All the candidates who are getting big build-ups say they'll run. Ike, who doesn't need any, says he won't. News Item: "Gerald L. K. Smith, the rabble-rouser, violently ill from arsenic." Oh, the poor, poor arsenic. |