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Show 1 ill Li 1 r j . l,;,;NJ New York Heartbeat ' The Big rrade: Victor Moore- the-merrior . . . Ethel Barrymore. whose acting Is the only spotlight she needs . . . Martha Raye the one-gal HeUzapoppin' . , . Chico I Marx at Leon J: Eddie's. In a check ered suit noisier than the floor show there . . Frankie Hyers, the "Panama "Pan-ama Hattie" clown a grown-up Mickey Rooney . . Mrs. Jascha Heifeti coming out of Jay Thorpe's to drop a few coins Into the cup of a passing blind violinist . . Pris-cilla Pris-cilla Lane talking a cop out of giving giv-ing her a ticket near the Lincoln tunnel . . Bunny Waters of the Billy Rose festival at the Horseshoe wearing a wedding ring. A what? ,j . . Cafe decorator Vernon Mac- j: Farlane. studying the ruins of Lon- i don in a newspaper, and exclaim- i ing: "Good heavens! My tailor's place has been blown to bits wotta pity!" Beaverbrook's C. V. R. Thompson, who calls it "The Italian Quitzkrieg." Sallies in Our Alley: G. Henri-Have, Henri-Have, Vichy's envoy to the U. S., ' is going home. France knows it is important to have a good man in f Washington . . "And," observed 1 a critic, "that ain't Haye!" i Eddy Duchin knows an Italian gen- eral who (in reporting to II Duce) was asked about the Albanian sit- cheeayshun "It's all Greek to me!" was the reply . . At a dinner din-ner the other night, when a speaker remarked that the perfect age for a woman was thirty, Toastmaster Bob Christenberry added: "Especially "Espe-cially if she is forty." Smalltown Vignette: Orson Welles had a lecture date to fill recently in a midwestem town . . The date came on a chilly, rainy night, and a thin crowd turned out Moreover, More-over, the committee had neglected to provide a speaker to introduce Welles . . He stepped onto the L platform, looked over the scattered audience, and said: "You probably , Uon't know me. I'm a stage direc- Itor, producer, actor and designer. In Hollywood I'm a producer, director direc-tor and actor. In radio I'm a direc- ' tor and actor. In fact, there's no point in continuing this thing. There are so many of me and so few of you!" Memos of a Midnighter: Doris Dudley and June Havoc no longer share the same apt. Reason: Life mag did a layout on Dudley's manse in White Plains and June hogged the lens for nearly 70 per cent of the put . Margo is expected to file against F. Lederer within the fortnight fort-night . . She's been long-distancing her New York attorney from Hollywood . . The buzz has Rou-ben Rou-ben Mamoulian stitching with Irene ' Lee of Warner's story dep't soon . . . Remember Tommy Jackson, who became famous playing the detective de-tective in "Broadway"? Well, he's now on the District Attorney's staff in L. A., as a special investigator . . The gab persists that Dewey will retire New Year's Day for private pri-vate practice . . . Hemingway says he is buying a house in Cuba, not switching citizenship. , I Manhattan Murals: The recent snow and slush putting a wet blanket blan-ket on the city's streets. The best Miami Beach ad of them all The bright little Christmas card shoppes that spring up every year at this time adding a little sparkle to the dreary town . . The sign in the window of a hosiery shop: "Do Your Christmas Shopping, Girly!" . . . The Carnegie Hall Apartments which advertise: "Piano and Bath" . . The excited Broad-wayites Broad-wayites arguing about the headlines, near the Times Building Union Square in a high hat . Sign in a West 49th Street barber shop featuring a sun-lamp treatment: j "We'll Tan Your Hide for 50 I Cents." Broadway Ticker-Tape: MGM will exploit "Comrade X" this way: "It's funnier than Ninotchka and easier to pronounce!" Are Sam Bar ken (the prop, of Miami Beach's big-time big-time 5 o'Clock Club) and Barbara MacLean secretly sealed? . . The S. Carmels have separate tepees He's a noted attorney. She's the 'legs" in the Real Silk adverts They are saying Miriam Hopkins' next play: "Battle of the Angels" is the risgayesl yet . It's a girl for the Richard Snyders of the Mirror Mir-ror . One of the biggest industrialists indus-trialists in the nation (whose initials are B. D.) has just bet a small mint that the U. S. will be In a war within 60 days . The Mexican president is expected to visit the White House in Feb. New Yorchids: Bob Grant's crew toying with the rhythms at the Savoy-Plaza . . . Benny Goodman's torridisc of "Benny Rides Again," a Columbia platter . . . Connie Bos-well's Bos-well's double-talk warbling of "Stra-va-na-da" via the Bing Crosby program pro-gram . . Douglas Williams' new book: "The New Contemptibles." The first book published by Bren-tano's Bren-tano's in ten years . . Warden Lawes' thrilling book: "Meet the Murderer" (Harper's) . . Coca Cola's new radio show via CBSun-day CBSun-day . . . It's the Kostelanuts! |