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Show U A I -. llso L. ...... -J Man About Town: Jimmy Stewart's new Big Interest here is Gloria McLean. . . . Fran-chot Fran-chot Tone's calls from Paris are to Joan Barton, the thrush. . . . The Ann Rutherford-Fred de Cordova idyll is beyond control. . . . Nancy Choremi and husband are expected to End It All at Casablanca. Her original barrister here is suing for his $5,000 fee. . . . Wall Streeters say The Market won a terrible decision deci-sion over Gene Tunney. . . . Inner-circlers Inner-circlers hear Chas. Lindbergh will inherit a diplomatic post if the Re-pubs Re-pubs romp in. . . . Did the 20th Century Cen-tury Sporting Club promise champ J. Louis a chunk of it to risk his '.itle again? Plus an executive job with it as his "annuity"? Overseas Ticker: England's royal family is concerned over the biggest to-do since Wally wed Windsor. The Duchess of Kent wants to go on the stage! . . . Parisians are chuckling about the II. N. bachelors (from Chile and Peru) who are bosom pals in love with the same French model. . . . Parker Wy-man, Wy-man, who takes a diplomatic post at Cairo, will marry Patricia Pa-tricia Howland of Washington Oct. 16th. . . . Lady Helena, youngest of the 3 beautiful dghtrs of the late (and rich) Earl Fitzwilliam, is melting from Major Chetwode Hilton-Green. Not one of the contestants (who admitted over the microphones that they won the jackpots from tips in this col'm) has sent the Runyon Cancer Fund a dime. But WNEW's "You Can Lose Your Shirt" program pro-gram (where quiz contestants pay for guessing wrong) just sent the fund $2,545.50. And this is that novel program's first mention here. . . . Hugs and embraces also to the Bucks County Artists (of New Hope, Pa.) who held an auction and sent the fund $4,080.91. Nize pipple. . . . And the Runyon Committee's thanx to the U. S. Secret Service for its $320.00 check "in memory of supervising super-vising agent Laurence E. Albert of Seattle." His widow directed friends to omit flowers and send the money to fight cancer. QUOTATION MARKSMANSHIP: Arthur Krock: The handwriting on the wall is seldom visible from the White House. . . . R. D.: One never realizes how long the night can be. Until one stays awake to keep a worry company. . . . Robert Nathan: Streets so quiet that we heard our footsteps following us home. . . . J. Monahan: 1 wish there was some other way of starting the day besides waking up. . . . Orson Welles: Nobody ever has called me a genius, but everyone keeps denying deny-ing that I am. . . . Edith Wharton: The mysterious authority of beauty. Vignette: Bill Hearst tells about the midtowner who asked the neigh-borhood neigh-borhood tailor if he could make him a hunting coat. ... "A hunting coat?" was the shrugged reply, as he kept sewing a garment. "I'm a tailor, I make any kind of coat," . . . "But a hunting coat," said the man. "Did you ever hunt?" . . . "I once hunted bears," said the tailor, concentrating on a buttonhole, button-hole, "but I got killed dead." . . . "What kind of talk is that?" chuckled the patron. "You're still living aren't you?" : . . "Hmmm," thrugged the tailor, "you call this iving?" New York Rainbow: The Bar-bizon Bar-bizon Hotel (on 58th near the Park) decked out like a ship on its 30th floor. Life-savers, ship rails and smokestacks painted battle-gray. . . . The Salvador Dali effect of a lonely tree sprouting from the rim of a roof at 69th and 5th. . . . The 8th Avenue theater marquee: "Night of Love." "I Wake Up Screaming." . . . The thrilling S.S. America funnels red, white and blue. The S. Hurok-Laszlo Halasz word-war word-war in the Paris Ballet foyer was missed by the reporters. Hurok, who imported the troupe here, was the target. . . . Robert Bassett has inherited Glenn Babb's foreign editorship edi-torship at AP. Alan Gould is the new executive editor, the first since Byron Price left 5 years ago. . . . Love Is Like This: Disc-jock Art Ford opens and closes his program with Monica Lewis platters. . . . The American Veterans Committee proved a Communist ain't a Liberal by kicking out Daily Worker editor John Gates. CONFIDENTIALLY Ida James, the Savannah cafe thrush, has been a secret bride for a year. . . . Ballerina Kathryn Lee and Bill Callahan admit it's serious. seri-ous. . . . Lon McAllister and Jane Powell are an every nitem. . . . "The Damon Runyon Story," by E. Weiner, is in its third printing. . . . The Frank Taylors expect an image in Nov. She's Bonnie Baker, the "Oh, Johnny!" lark. . . . Ditto the Walter Goodes. He's mgr of "Ice-capades." "Ice-capades." . . . Marie Torre (of the World-Telly drama desk) and tele vision producer H. Freeman will be united at Little Church Around the Corner Nov. 6th. . . . Herald Trib colyumists Robert and Jean Board-man Board-man will blessed event this Winter. |