Show r at II 1 Y It tJ Man lan About Town Newspaper men everywhere can rt be proud of the way one of them died in London His name one name one to toi i remember was remember was Arthur F. F B. B Port- Port man Many Americans knew him through his line by-line That was tagged on the copy he penned for Horse and Hound for Portman was one of Europe's best racing report report- 41 ers Portman's wife was an invalid ridden bed-ridden for several years She 1 was unable to go to the shelters when the Nazi bombers came over overto overto overto to wage Hitler's war That's the way r it was the last morning the Port- Port mans heard the raid siren The reporter reporter re rc- re- re por porter er went where he always went wenty weIlt y during raids to the bedside of his i r ailing wife And there he was killed r with her b by a bomb r Via Douglas Mackenzie an Australian scribe who distinguished himself in h London until he connected with a aNew fir New York paper was being shown the midtown places by confrere h Gene McHugh 20 years with the same sheet Gene is a man of ot few superlatives but when Mackenzie Macken Macken- zie asked him what sort of a fellow a rival was Genes Gene's orchid was What any reporter would welcome on his tombstone Hes a news news- Period Y The Headliners Margaret Lindsay's Lindsay's Lindsay's Lind Lind- says say's quote Every actor has a certain certain certain tain amount of ego Yeah sometimes they think they're good and sometimes they think nobody else is Same ladys lady's comment Actresses like to talk about themselves themselves themselves them them- selves Except when they're gargling Ann Sheridan's warnIng warning warning warn warn- ing There are some things girls have to know about men men She means that tha t it is less of a strain to walk some place with a man than go there with him in a taxicab Adolphe line The screen r is an educator Sure a diploma diplo diplo- ma from the screen entitles you to I enter any kindergarten Sinclair Lewis has quit the stage because he complained acting took I up too much of his time Anybody Anybody Anybody Any Any- body who ever saw Red play playa a scene knew he was bound to run out of time sooner or later the way he her r was consuming it New York Tork Novelette This is the very sad story of Strawberry Sam a wagon milk horse who had the West Pest Fifty-eighth Fifty street beat Sam z would walk up onto the sidewalk to greet show-folks show coming home in the wee hours They usually gave him sugar lumps or they'd pet his nose One dawning Sam went too far farand farand I and bit a chorus girls girl's fingers r So they treated him like a policeman I who is being demoted They t. t banished poor Sam to the Jackson j Heights sticks for three months IR But he took it all li like e a man an a t and is now back on the Fifty-eighth Fifty l street beat again t r. r Memos of a 1 The fingerprinting fingerprinting fingerprinting fin fin- of night club employees etc revealed six convictions against a famed joynt owner Joan Burgess the lovely dancer and millionaire millionaire millionaire mil mil- furrier Merl will middle- middle aisle What's happening to the Broadway Royalty Prince Mike F Y Romanoff has gone to work in a night club and now Duchess Cynthia Cynthia Cynthis thia this Cavanaugh is booked at Bertolotti's Bertolotti's Berto- Berto ts' ts lottis lotti's as a thrush A famous actress was locked up in Los Angeles Angeles Angeles Ange Ange- les on a dope charge Paul Muni and Nigel Bruce almost almost almost al al- most came to blows on the Hudson Bay set Page 40 in Life has the giggling Georgette Georgette Geor Geor- Georgette I gette McKee who plays Hilda in Ramparts We Watch became Mrs N. N H. H Willis in Illinois Mischa Auer will next marry Joyce Hunter vocalist with the Henry King orchestra Auer gave his wife the house and big coin for his freedom m say Chriss' Chriss Christopher Christopher Chris Chris- s' s Morley didn't write Kitty Foyle that his daughter did and that the book was peddled under his name to make bigger money for her 4 r 1 Sounds in the Night At The Whirling Whirling Whirling Whirl Whirl- ing Top They grew to love each other more and more month after fit month and round after round n At The Beachcomber I dont don't care if ML she's got a skeleton in her closet closet- I as it aint her husband In Leon Eddies Eddie's Be careful f gal One false move and Im I'm yours In the Forty-eighth Forty St. St Tavern Tavern ern em What has he got that she hasn't gotten At The Torch She gives away kisses as though they were campaign buttons At Armando's Hes very good at atI I inventing things especially lies In The Mayan What U a arist You know know know-a a guy who can read read and and then write This Is New Y York The burlesk temples dripping with t. t stale smoke giving ugly tin tin- tinhorn tinhorn horn shows Years ago these same theaters were the scene of the most scintillating nights first-nights The violent political argument between two women in the Grand Central V Terminal No political issues were mentioned One just didn't like the type of campaign button of one candid can can- did te The other thought it was pretty The dreary beaneries the the cabbies cabbies' Stork Club I II I |