Show yr y f fa a r New Yorkers Are Arc Talking About Babe Ruths Ruth's price for his services in the Gehrig film which Goldwyn screams is too much He will pay it though as Ruth is a must in any biography of Gehrig Jimmy Walker the former Mayor who is being considered as the head of a anew anew anew new racetrack to be built in N N. Y The I backers being very wealthy French refugees wondering where to invest their coin planned film I I version of the towns town's big hit Best Foot Forward For Mickey and Judy The Work Nice-Work Dept One of L Lifes Life's es e's editors who was ordered ordered ordered or or- dered to spend at least two weeks with Ginger Rogers Rogers for for a profile piece The way Warden ex-Warden Lawes has added twenty pounds since getting out of Sing Sing Prison The way the British radio pounds away at Italy's slipping morale with eight daily broadcasts urging the country to unlatch itself from Berlin Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin Romes Rome's reply is Why speak to us Take it up with the Warden The several several sev seve eral society lads on the verge of being drafted who flew to California Califor Califor- nia shifting residences there at the same time So that when their numbers come up they'll go to a camp in sunny Ca Cal Dumb huh The new bootlegging racket in England where more bootlegging goes on in the clothing field than in food And in mens men's attire Paid Hitler Fritz The book I by Thyssen the industrialist who first helped the Nazis in Germany Jimmy Wong Howe the Chinese cameraman and Rabbi Edgar Magnin Magnin Magnin Mag- Mag nin who made speeches for a short to raise funds for Irish Relief The depressing news about Hendrik Hen- Hen Hendrik Hendrik drik Willem Van Loon whose docs does have ordered him to stop all activity for lor the next six months The Rev Jardine who came to the aid of Wally and the Duke His letters are now ignored The way some of the pro-Nazis pro over here outsmarted themselves The coin they saved on postage by having their hymns of hate franked through the mails doesn't begin to cover the costs of lawyers and bail Jimmy Dorseys Dorsey's check for 40 from Decca as his royalties for forthe forthe forthe the first half of 1941 In short he hit the N Notes tes o of f an Innocent Bystander The Story Tellers Cl Clifton ton Fadiman Fadi Fadi- man will have you know that hes he's a reviewer book-reviewer not a literary crit crit- ic He points out the big difference in The Reviewing Business in Harpers Literary criticism is an anart anart anart art he sa says s 's like the writing of tragedies or the making of love and similarly does not pay Book reviewing reviewing re re- re- re viewing is a device for earning e a living Charles also takes a office box-office slant at the prose racket in The Times mag in his definition of the Pulitzer Prize The value of the prize he says is a thousand dollars in cash to those who accept it t and ten thousand dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars in publicity for those who refuse refuse refuse re re- re- re fuse it S The Front Pages An editorial in inthe inthe inthe the Herald Tribune epigrams the spot the Bolo armies have put the Huns in The Russians the daily points out have only to survive somehow in order to win Hitler has hasto hasto hasto to win in order to survive You can spot the Fascists' Fascists weariness weariness weariness ness for the war in their weakening propaganda bragging Recently they claimed only to have damaged the British plane carrier Ark RoyaL In all previous naval scraps both the and the Fascists have begun begun begun be be- gun with the sinking of that vessel 1 Broadway Is Like ike This Broadway is where after youve you've reached the top top top-at at least a dozen acquaintances s claim having played a big part in it But when you fail fail everybody everybody blames you And you blame the breaks instead of looking for a job where your talent will be respected such respected such as waiting on tables or being president of a bank bank No matter how nice you are there will always be others who will knock you you from from sheer force of habit habit A fellow who is considered considered considered consid consid- ered more important than Roosevelt or r Willkie is one who can pick at least one winner out of seven Braces races If you dont don't talk about then yourself then you you run the risk of being bONd borad stiff listening to others gab about themselves The Broadway B lights have done more to tomase m mace mase e the street famous than any of the famed folk on it Broadway is still the zippiest street of them all Remember when some people wrote articles alleging alI alleging alleging al al- al- al I it was dead a few years back I. I Many visitors come to The Big Town to see the shows when the best show is New York itself The Bowery where many people are starving is full of restaurants The best way to disillusion your daughter who is struck stage is to point out the chorus girls staggering into subway kiosks No pla playboys playboy boys s or sables sables just just yawns and smelly smell y stations sister sister- |