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Show New York Heartbeat: Memos of a Midnighter: H. I. Phillips' book of his best colyums and stuff will be christened: "On White or Rye." Harpers will publish pub-lish shortly. The dedication, "To My Portable Typewriter, U. S. Route No. 1, Hedy Lamarr, the Tri-borough Tri-borough Bridge Authority, and to all victims of serious writing everywhere" every-where" . . The wags say that Broadway producers looking for rich backers now introduce Jock Whitney as: "Meet John Dough" The used car market is being flooded by drafted youths who won't be able to use their jalopies for a year . . Kurt Sell, the DNB correspondent corre-spondent in Washington, called Berlin Ber-lin and transmitted the President's speech from the advance release. When he finished phoning he was told the long-distance charges were $105 which "includes the DEFENSE DE-FENSE tax!" The Big Parade: Katharine Cornell, Cor-nell, the living definition of an Actress Ac-tress . . . Arthur Treacher and Boris Karloff, two H'wood immigrants immi-grants now eligible for membership in the Six-Footers' Club . . . Ben Grauer, the N.B.C. announcer, treating treat-ing a group of British children (evacuees) to ice-cream sodys in Radio City's drugstore . . . The soldier in uniform dropping backstage back-stage at "Panama Hattie," who turned out to be Private Winthrop Rockefeller. Sallies In Our Alley: They were gabbing about Jack Benny's tired look and his new radio contract which raised his weekly wage to nearly $20,000 . . . "So what?" said a cynic. "He has no peace of mind because he's dizzy from thinking up new twists to old jokes. That's the hard way of making an easy living" . . . "You're all wTong," interrupted Goodman Ace of The Easy Aces, "Benny's big worry is that he'll drop all the way down to Second Place!" Chinatown Charlie says that a success is a fellow who keeps smiling smil-ing at those he can afford to laugh at South American News Ticker: F. D. R. endeared the people of Chile to North Americans when he ordered Senora Davila flown home in a bomber . . . His invitation to the son of the President of Paraguay Para-guay (stricken with infantile paralysis) paral-ysis) to Warm Springs will always be affectionately remembered . . . Another fine Ambassador of Good-Will Good-Will is Ambassador Winant's son-in-law, Carlos Valando, a young scientist sci-entist from Peru ... A newsreel company is sending camera news to every country in South America so that all of us will get to know each other a lot of better. HCM's casting of "Simon Bolivar" Boli-var" (the South American George Washington) has caused considerable consider-able excitement as much, p'raps, as there was over GWTW. The fans, frinstance, have turned down Clark Gable ... He didn't look like their hero, it seems. Robert Taylor is announced an-nounced for the role . . . Incidentally, Inciden-tally, Warners spent plenty of money doing research on Bolivar only to lose their prioriety to Metro . . . Paramount News is sending John Dored, formerly assigned to Eastern Europe to Rio and Buenos Aires . All South American stars will appear in the Dolores Del Rio picture pic-ture which is to be made in Mexico City . . They make an attractive perfumed water in Rio with a real orchid inside the bottle. The Federal Housing Administration Administra-tion films are a big hit down there. They like to see Americans living in simple homes costing $2,500 instead in-stead of Hollywood palaces . . . We are rah-rahiny with South American colors such as Argentine Navy, Brazilian Bra-zilian White and Chile Bean Red . . . But they do not wear them down there only black, white and gray ... If you'd beat the Nazis then remember (when you're shopping) that all the things that used to come from Czechoslovakia, Poland, France and Austria are now made by South Americans dishes, glasses, alligator belts, silver, woolen wool-en mu-flers and junglewood pipes. The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City has two floors strictly for South Americans, where all the waiters and maids speak Spanish or Portuguese an idea thought up by Mrs. Elanca Steinman, who runs it . . . There is a corner in the lobby over at the Taft Hotel just for South Americans, too . . . Ruth Reeves, who put Guatemala on our fashion map is doing the same job for Ecuador and Peru. M;ikn a note of this and tell everybody every-body you can: Chilean wine is as Sood as Rhine wine . . . Same francs, and no money goes to That Man . . . Dr. Ampara Arcaya of Chile (on the staff of Johns Hopkins Hop-kins Hospital) wears earrings as lari;e as a quarter . . . Chilean vorrieri who get their clothes from New York never press them. The creases show they're Imported . . , Senora Felipe Espil, wife of the Argentine Ar-gentine Ambassador, was born rltfht here In the United States but she looks W'J'C Latin than the Scnorilas. |
