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Show The Headliners: Greta Garbo lifting lift-ing the brows of the diners in a midtown Hungarian restaurant by sprinkling a thick layer of sugar on each dish even the soup and vegetables vege-tables . . . Recent landholders in the Persian Room: Gov. Bricker and his wife . . . Talu Bankhead kidded by the clowns in Club 18 with their "man-overboard" routine . . . Poon Lim, the Chinese seaman (at Ripley's broadcast), sobbing while the radio actors dramatize his story on a raft at sea 133 days a record rec-ord .. . Turhan Bey (La Hepburn's Hep-burn's reported romance) who has been listed as a Turk. He's from Vienna . . . Choo-Choo Johnson, whose name is Violet Lynch . . . Homer Capehart, the popular radio-phonograph radio-phonograph maker, who may be a candidate for the U. S. Senate from Ind . . . Bette Davis and her mater Incognito at a downtown delly for hot pastrami sandwiches and celery tonic. Midtown Vignette: Earl Carpenter's Carpen-ter's crew was playing another benefit bene-fit show on which a Hollywood star appeared . . . Carpenter's music (to bring him on) was a zippy tem-po'd tem-po'd "Who" ... the actor hammed it all over the place (stayed on for what seemed forever) and laid an omelet . . . H. G. Gardiner, the drummer, received a note from one of the sax footers. It read: "We played him on with 'Who.' Why not take him off with 'Why'?" A soldier (carrying an enormous laundry bag) walked into Tiffany's. He received no attention whatever all assumed he was in the wrong place. He looked worn, his clothes didn't fit too well, an unimpressive fellow . . . He was shunted to the small-priced dep't, where he had difficulty convincing the salesman that he wished to buy something "more expensive" . . . He finally selected a bracelet at $5,000 and wrote out a check . . . The clerk was sorry he'd have to send the check to the bank "for certification" . . . Then he looked at the signature signa-ture . . . Carl Laemmle Jr. who had suddenly recalled his sister's birthday! Drama Report: A new play titled "Decision" by E. Chodorov has been enjoying a run in the East. The story relates to an ostrich-like U. S. senator and the editor of his newspaper news-paper who stir up disunity, prejudice prej-udice and terrorize an American town, particularly a wounded American Amer-ican soldier just returned from Sicily. The soldier's father, a teacher, teach-er, heads a citizens' group which threatens to bring charges of criminal crim-inal treason against the editor and senator . . . The Wilmington (Del.) News critic called it "exciting drama, tense and full of dramatic moments. You leave the theater feeling frustrated and angry; you cannot be unmoved . . . Representative Representa-tive citizens endeavor to attack the subversive forces which are causing what is virtually a civil war on the home front. Winchell himself might have written the play; it is so much his theme, this faith in the American Amer-ican who will force treachery from under its cover." The German Consul in Naples, Italy, had a list of American actors ac-tors who appeared in pictures attacking at-tacking the Nazis. Included in the list (confiscated by our troops) were Carole Landis, Myrna Loy, Norma Shearer, James Stewart, Henry Ar-metta, Ar-metta, Ben Bernie, Joe E. Brown and many other prominents . . . Arthur Clifford Read (accused by the FBI of being a Jap agent) threatened to go AWOL from Camp Croft if his superiors refused him a furlough ... He got it and it proved to be his big boner. He went to N. Y. where he was nabbed. Quotation Marksmanship: The Oskaloosa Tribune: Buyers once did business over the counter. Now they do it over the ceiling . . . Ladies Home Journal: No one is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as horrible examples . . . Fletcher Henderson: Middle age is that time in life when you'd rather not have a good time than recover from it . . . Lulu Bates: Argentina's Argen-tina's earthquake just goes to prove again what can happen when you argue with Winchell . . . M. Lincoln Schuster: Warning to tyrants and dictators: Americans are famous for their sense of humor, but they cannot can-not take a yoke . . . Geo. San-tayana: San-tayana: A fanatic is a man who redoubles his efforts after he has lost sight of his objectives . . ..D. Green: The stork brought Frankie a little Son-atra. Manhattan Murals: The 52nd Street sandwich shop sign: "Breakfast "Break-fast served until 5 p. m." . . . The underground passageway for the models at. 247 Park Avenue (en route to the photog studios at 480 Lexington, Lexing-ton, in the adjoining bldg) it is nicknamed: nick-named: "Glamour Gulch" . . The sidewalk chalking: "This is Look-Before-You-Leap year!" . . . The little cellar restaurant (the Savoia) at 88 Mulberry St., back of Crim- inal Courts Bldg. Such scallopini j for only 60c! The selfish set hope "Winchell doesn't hear of it" |