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Show iV?i Yorki'rs Are Talking About: Babe Rulli'a price ($25,000) for his services in the Gehrig film, which Goldwyn screams is too much. He will prob'ly pay it, thi;unh, as Ruth is a "must" in any biography of Gehrig . . . Jimmy W;ilker, the former Mayor, who is bs-iritf considered as the head of a new racetrack to be built in N. Y. The backers being very wealthy French refugees, wondering where to invest their coin . . . MGM's planned film version of the town's big hit, "Best Foot Forward" . . . For Mickey and Judy . . . The Nice-Work Dep't: One of Life's editors who was ordered or-dered to spend at least two weeks with Ginger Rogers for a profile piece . . . The way 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 itseLT from Berlin Ber-lin .. . Rome's reply prob'ly is: "Why speak to us? Take it up with the Warden! " . . . The several sev-eral society lads, on the verge of being drafted, who flew to California, Califor-nia, shifting residences there at the same time. So that when their numbers come up they'll go to a camp in sunny Cal. . . . Dumb, huh? . . . The new bootlegging racket in England, where more bootlegging goes on in the clothing field tfian in food. And In men's attire! The book, "I Paid Hitler," by Fritz Thyssen, the Industrialist who first helped the Nazis in Germany . . . Jimmy Wong Howe, the Chinese cameraman, and Rabbi Edgar Mag-nin, Mag-nin, who made speeches for a short to raise funds for Irish Relief . . . The depressing news about Hen-drik Hen-drik Willem Van Loon, whose docs have ordered him to stop all activity for 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 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 Dorsey's check for $40,-000 $40,-000 from Decca, as his royalties for the first half of 1941. In short, he hit the Jukepot. A'otes of an Innocent Bystander: The Story Tellers: Clifton Fadi-man Fadi-man will have you know that he's a bock-reviewer, not a literary critic. crit-ic. He points out the big difference in "The Reviewing Business," in Harper's. ."Literary criticism is an art," he says, "like the writing of tragedies or the making of love and, similarly, does not pay. Book reviewing re-viewing is a device for earning a living" . . . Charles Poore also takes a 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 and ten thousand dollars dol-lars in publicity for those who refuse re-fuse it". The Front Pages: An editorial In 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 to win in order to survive" . . . You can spot the Fascists' weariness weari-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 Heinies and the Fascists have begun be-gun with the sinking of that vessel. Broadway Is Like This: Broadway is where after you've reached the top at least a dozen acquaintances claim having played a big part in it . . . But when you fail everybody blames you . . . And you blame the "breaks" instead of looking for a job where your talent will be respected such as waiting on tables or being president of a bank . . . No matter how nice you are there will always be others who will knock you from sheer force of habit ... A fellow who is considered consid-ered more important than Roosevelt or Willkie is one who can pick at least one winner out of seven races ... If you don't talk about yourself then you run the risk of being borad stiff listening to others gab about themselves . . . The Broadway lights have done more to mae 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 al-leging it was dead a few years back? . . . 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 stage-struck is to point out the chorus girls staggering into subway kiosks . . . No playboys or sables just yawns and smelly subvaj stations, sister |