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Show 1,3 I... jiMi,Rwu Scrvic.i b J Broadway Heartbeat Faces About Town: Mrs. Andrei Gromyko coming out of the swank Colony restaurant where only capitalists capi-talists can afford the tariff . . . Powers model Gregg Sherwood trying try-ing on her trousseau at Wilma's for her merger to Walter Sherwin, the paint billionaire . . . The guests will include Powersirens and the N. Y. Yankees team . . . Dwight Eisenhower Eisen-hower getting the Big Hello from the crowd as he comes out of the Paramount building and enters his car. License No. DE-111 . . . Mrs. Wendell Willkie, who "will appreciate appre-ciate a retraction" of the rumor she might remarry. A new series of stamps, showing the heads of Gottwald and Zapo-tocky Zapo-tocky was issued recently. "These stamps don't stick," said a Czech. "They stick," explained the other. "But the people Insist on spitting on the wrong side!" Broadway Story: Her name Is Barbara Nunn . . . Pretty as a movie star1 . . . Monte Proser, in H'wood casting "Heaven on Earth," kept her waiting in the outer office for three hours one day . . . When he finally sent for her to audition she flipped an arm at him in the "oh, nuts" manner and fled . . . She returned the next day, however, did her Lily Pons stuff and won the leading lady role . . . "Now tell me something," some-thing," said Monte after signing her up. "Why did you dash out of here yesterday that way?" . . . "Because," she explained, "I live at the Studio club where If you're not in by six you don't eat!" Sallies in Onr Alley; Some actors dining at Lum Fong's wondered how drama critic George Jean Nathan spends his summer holiday . . . "He goes to the country and takes long walks," someone offered . . . "Really?" said a listener. "Where does he find the aisles?". . . Lana Turner, the papers said, had bought a farm and Irving Hoffman inquires: "What's she gonna do raise her own rice?" A wag at Club 78 was telling about the two drunks looping the loops and zigging the zags on a Coney Island roller coaster. As they completed the hectic tour, one of them said: "I've got a shneakin' shushpicion we took the wrong shtreet-car." Manhattan Murals: The warning on a truck: "Some people don't look up until they are flat on their backs" . . . The Delancey street clothing store which offers you "airplane "air-plane values at submarine prices" . . . Two little girls, all in white, taking each other's photo on St Patrick's steps just after their initial ini-tial communion . . . Sign in a delicatessen: deli-catessen: "If you don't smell it, we ain't got It!'" Jack Pearl tells about the two partners who went fishing. One fell overboard and the other yelled: "Can you float alone?" The other screamed back: "This Is a fine time to talk business!" Manhattan Midnight: Some of the 42nd street ticket-takers and ushers now tote "equalizers" and the bouncers carry clubs. Too many incidents in-cidents lately . . . Heheheh: Richard Widmark, the villain sensation in "Kiss of Death," promised pals that H'wood would never type him. (He again will be a hoodlum in his next two films) . . . The movie editor over at This Week (the mag) is located lo-cated so far down the hall from everyone else that he has "Outer Mongolia" lettered on his office door Instead of his name. C. A. Lejeune, reviewing "Captain "Cap-tain Kidd" in "The Sketch," found it tame stuff. She wrote: "The producers have achieved something little short of a miracle mir-acle a dull pirate picture . . . The film cannot compare with the lusty vigor of snch pirate yarns as 'Captain Blood,' "The Sea Hawk,' "The Black Swan' and Douglas Fa'rbanks' glorious old silent film, "The Black Pirate." The lady critic added this devastating dev-astating box office wrecker: "Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of lemonade!" John Newton Baker once told of a ministerial student who interpreted inter-preted the Biblical story of the creation cre-ation of woman in this delightful way: "When God made woman He did not take part of man's brain or part of man's foot but part of his rib. Thus, woman is not to be man's boss or slave but rather the closest thing to his heart." Addressing a Democratic rally, Paul E. Fitzpatrick hailed the era of Truman prosperity. He means, of course, all the Tru-mans Tru-mans prospered. Aaron Burr, a New Yorker and vice-p resident of the United States, earned his living as dishwasher dish-washer in PariVi for four years after aft-er he held office. |