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Show ti i fcir.' ,lr-'wi,U8 1 L- J Notes of a New Yorker: The Front Pages: There's no use having your blood pressure boil because the U. S. is dangling moneybags before Tito's eyes in an effort to widen his split wits Stalin. In the grimly realistic game of power politics principles are taboo. All that matters is: Whe can help us hurt our enemies? That's why Russia and America were once allies. . . . The Democratic Demo-cratic party is now cut up like a jigsaw. But out of the confusing tug-of-ward-healers one tiling it clear: The Repubs can't hurt them as much as they've harmed themselves. them-selves. . . . How ridiculous can you get? The Soviet government hai made it illegal for Russian women wom-en to alter their skirts to "capitalistic "capital-istic lengths!" Truman doesn't seem to have progressed much in four years. In '44 he was second choice and still is. Man Under a Shower: There'll be a new third party paper. Name: The National Gazette. Sometime in . August. . . .' Richest waiter in the world (he's the oldest and walks the fastest, too) is the Stork club's Mr. Johnson. . . . Wanna get rich the easy way? Be in Washington in November and sell tickets to Missouri. Mis-souri. . . . John Edgar Hoover's "pained" expression, intimates know, is from his fear that "war may come tomorrow." Now don't ask him if it is true; he will only deny it. Zanuck would toss this out of any -ops-afid-robbers script (unbelievable, 'e'd argue) but it happened the other i ayem in New York. Two stickups ot away with two small safes from he Cadillac branch on York avenue md while the gendarmes searched the ity for them one returned to the cene to retrieve a revolver he left behind! be-hind! And got away again. Stage Entrance: Warner's just signed a Mexican actress named elipe Gomez to a 10-year contraot in the strength of her playing in Key Largo." She's 102 years old. . . Dorothy Kirsten, the Met hrush who owns several spectacu-ar spectacu-ar fur coats, is backing one of the ipstate New York chinchilla farms. . . Oscar Homolka of the piercing lue eyes will play the "famed lungarian playwright" when the lew George' S. Kaufman-Edna Fer-jer Fer-jer play, "Bravo!" hits Broadway, fanet Fox (niece of co-author Fer-er) Fer-er) will be in the east. . . . The ich get richer: "Annie Get Your lun," a wow in New York, San ''rancisco, Denver, London just to nention a few cities is now the liggest hit in Australia, too. Elsa Maxwell's party game was played again. The query was: "If you had only 10 minutes min-utes to live, and yon knew it, how would you spend them?" To which Helen Hayes' husband, hus-band, Charles MacArthur (a wit) seriously said: "I would call my wife on the phone and apologize!" American taxpayers will blow a 'use when they learn Hirohito's innual living allowance is $400,000. . . Life mag notes Gene Autry's : actus sagas made him a multi-nillionaire. multi-nillionaire. Yet his cowboy-meets-lorse-operas seldom are rated good enough for Broadway premieres. . . Justice William O. Douglas' :ssay in Reader's Digest uses ords for paddles on the Commu-lists. Commu-lists. He believes they can be trounced without using six-shooters. . . . Passing planes will cause your television screen to get blurry- . Odd Coincidences: Since Governor Gov-ernor Warren left California he visited the State of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, the Pennsylvania station in New York and the Hotel Pennsylvania ditto. Next stop: Pennsylvania avenue, Washington? Washing-ton? Insiders hear Carole Landis planned suicide by driving her car off a west ciast cliff in 1946. . . . A kitten dashing across the path of the car changed her mind. . . . Carole than drove to the home of Dick Haymes' mother (the story goes) and while holding the kitten in her lap Mrs. Haymes and Carole talked out her problem. . . . When she appeared in "The Lady Says Yes" (a Broadway flop), a doctor described Carole as "one of the most sexicological women in and out of show biz." . . . The Landis tragedy proves that the greatest dramas in H'wood are not filmed they're lived. Mary Margaret McBrlde has a way with words. She advised one of Dewey's cabinet: "When you read a speech you say what may have taken months to write. But when you ad lib you speak from your heart what it has taken years to live." ... If you look closely while vjevfing "Fort Apache" you will see a, shrivelled, apple-cheeked old lady tn the part of Mrs. Gates. She is Mae Marsh who reached stardom in "The Birth of a Nation" Na-tion" 33 years ago. |