Show 0 1 New York Heartbeat The Big Parade Quentin Reynolds Reynolds Reynolds Rey Rey- telling chums the first thing he thought of when he saw the Hall Hallof Hallof Hallof of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles Versailles Versailles Ver Ver- sailles was the opulent Broadway hamburger joints Judy Garland Garland Garland Gar Gar- land surrounded by fellers We Ve can remember all the way back to 1940 when she thought a beau was something a girl wore in her hair Noel Coward before to London the London the Gertrude Lawrence putting aside her dignity and struggling with a plateful of spaghetti Sallies in Our Alley William Sa- Sa royan Artie Shaw and another One of Those Guys were doing the town the other bitter cold night without hats I 1 wonder wondered a why those birds never wear hats obvious explained One Who Knows Them makers Hat cant can't make them that size Over at Ruby Foos Foo's Den they were panning a certain swishy actor He speaks every line someone as though it were carrying a wand Another Another Another An An- AnI I other was auditioning before Vick Knight at NBC and was cautioned not to enunciate so severely How dare you screamed the Ham ahl I ahl-I I didn't take diction diction diction dic dic- tion lessons for nothing To which Vick cooed Are you sure U New York Novelette Her face I they said in Hollywood was that of an angel angel and and her honey hair was washer washer washer her halo A talent scout signed her up when she was elected Ski Queen of the Northwest Her only stage experience was semi-pro semi stuff stuff and and when Hollywood learned that that she she got minor roles in minus B-minus flickers She decided to chuck it and come to Broadway After a long wait she met Marc Connelly He introduced her to agent S. S Lyons who referred her to Max Gordon Gordon was having trouble casting a leading role Youre the type he told her But I r I have very little experience she said said Well he said you look good goods and anyone anyone anyone any any- one who looks that good can act actU Her reading of the part clinched it Now that she is such sucha a hit in My Sister Eileen Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood wants her back But JoAnn Jo JoAnn JoAnn Ann Sayers is a gal who likes to put puta a new twist to old routines No go U Sounds in the Night In the Stork cub She wears clothes as though she doesn't care who's looking looking looking look look- ing In Club 18 Is that a fur neck p piece neck ece she's wearing wearing wearing-or or a litter of pups In H. H Johnsons Johnson's Youre looking well tonight Who's your embalmer In the Waldorf's Waldorf's Waldorf's Wal Wal- dorf's Empire Room pair A check Ahat girl and a rubber check guy At the Her face might not stop a clock but it certainly keeps her phone from ringing Innocent Bystander The detention by the Gestapo in Berlin of the young United Press reporter Richard Hottelet is only the newest in a long series of indignities indignities indignities in in- dignities to which American newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper men have been subjected by bythe bythe bythe the Axis powers within the past two years John Whitaker of Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago was booted out of Rome Rome not not because he wrote anything the censors censors censors cen cen- sors didn't approve but approve but because Mussolini's propaganda bureau wished to cripple his Chicago paper in any way it could In Whitaker's Whitakers Whitakers Whitaker's Whitakers Whitaker's kers ker's case booting him out of Rome not only hurt his papers paper's coverage but it helped American papers that meet the requirements of the Nazi and Fascist party line Eventually Eventually Eventually ally they will permit only those newspaper men they like and who play ball ballu i Why dont don't the Ule associations of American reporters act Such groups as the White House Correspondents Correspondents' Correspondents Correspondents' Correspondents Correspondents' Corre Corre- the boys who cover cover coyer cov coy er the State Dept and the s senate nate and house press groups could retaliate retaliate retaliate ate by easing out from membership some Nazi or Fascist representative in Washington every time an American reporter is tossed out of Rome or Berlin That would discourage Goebbels and Gayda Gayda- since it is a known fact that German German German Ger Ger- man and Italian news agencies need representation over here more than we need it there Most of them arc are wire-spy wire services anyhow anyhow anyhow any any- how Incidentally Manfred although indicted as a proven unregistered propagandist from a foreign government is still a member member member mem mem- ber of the senate and house press galleries in good standing The boys covering Washington some sometime sometime sometime time ago considered kicking him out b but t were discouraged by the State Dept Memos of a l The Greek Benefit at the Music Hall made I I. I Hoffmans Hoffman's form of criticism for Irv Cobbs Cobb's book writing Tripe Has he ever been nicknamed Fire ello LaGuardia LaGuardia LaGuardia La- La Guardia Oh all The wealthy backer of Golf mag is planning a super-slick super mens men's mag to out-Esquire out ditto Mr Broadway Observes A chorus chor chor- us girl is a gal who's clever enough to be dumb so she can make a sap out of some |