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Show Lili 1ir-J ' ' -- ..v J New York Heartbeat Faces About Town: Virginia Bruce, being beautiful at Fifty-fiith and Fifth. Oughtagetta ticket for obstructing sidewalk traffic like that . . . Ben Bernie, the poor man's Toscanini. The very, very poor man's . . . Jimmy Walker, who is doing a musical comedy with Robert Rob-ert Stolz, who composed "Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time" . . . Oscar Levant, the Milton Berle of the intelligentsia. in-telligentsia. Midtown Vi(rnette: Two months ago a young man and a girl met after aft-er reading for roles in "The Corn Is Green," and admitted they were discouraged about their chances of making the cast. "Tell you what," she said, by way of brightening up the conversation. "If I get into the show I'll buy you a bottle of champagne, cham-pagne, and if you get in you can buy one for me" . . . "Okay," he said . . . The other Saturday night a boy and girl bought two bottles of wine and split the check . . . They were Richard Waring and Thelma Schnee. Memos of a Miduighter: George Jean Nathan's new Oriental first-night first-night friend is Kimi Toye of Club Waikiki. Says she intrigues him because she looks so bored . . . Horace Schmidlapp, the millionaire producer, is breathless over Countess Count-ess Ila Willing, a Hungarian pretty . . . There was a fist-fight between be-tween former Ass't D. A. St Angelo and the editor of the East Side News . . . Sailing Baruch Jr. says it must have been some other Baruch, he was in no Longchamps fight . . . S. Skolsky has worried so much about the war, they are calling him "Bundle of Nerves for Britain." . . . Hollywood etiquette, columns Hubbard Hub-bard Keavy, expects you to Introduce Intro-duce .wedded actresses by their screen names never as Mrs. . . . Too often you'U be speaking not only out of turn but also out of date. Broadway Novelette: Garbo's visit vis-it to "Panama Hattie" was eventful. event-ful. First, a photog cornered Greta in a perfect spot, while she was standing at attention during the national na-tional anthem. Garbo pulled down her hat to hide her kisser . . . When she was about to enter a cab with Gaylord Hauser, an autograph-camera pest snapped her, and Greta sizzled. She hit the camera, but the girl held on to it . . . Hauser then slapped it to the sidewalk ... As Garbo started to enter the taxi again, the girl threw the camera at her hitting Greta right in her rumble rum-ble seat while the crowd howled. I REPORTER'S PRIVATE PAPERS Verne Marshall is groaning out ! loud because our state department : allegedly high-hatted Hitler's peace memo . . . Marshall doesa't mention men-tion that Hitler's word is notoriously worthless even among his own allies al-lies . . At any rate, Marshall took his grievance to the networks and blundered ... He sassed back at the editorial page of the Herald Tribune so violently that people went right cut and bought that edition to read the shellacking Marshall got . . . When Verne has had a few more scraps perhaps he will know that it is pretty amateurish to mention men-tion the names an enemy calls you ... It not only gives those words circulation, but Marshall would be surprised how grateful people are to learn about them. Gloria Swanson is on her way to being the wealthiest woman in the nation . . . Her new business is financing refugee inventors, who arrive ar-rive here with not much coin, but full of ideas the one thing the Nazis cannot rob . . . She bankrolls them for a percentage of the earnings . . . Everything is on the up-and-up . . . Her recent trip to South America Wd3 liui a pied3LU e jduiu, as sue iuiu the gazettes, but a business trip to interest mine owners there in her new alloy ... It is supposed to be much lighter than the stufl now used in planes and much stronger. Her big backer is an ambassador. Responding to a recent emergency emergen-cy call of invasion, seven giant American bombers came down at Croydon, near London, after a nonstop non-stop transatlantic passage . . . "Are we in time?" was the anxious query . . . "Yes," was the casual ansver, "tea is just being served." Funny thing, hut "Gone With the 'Vind." the greatest grosser in the hbtory of movies, was a severe blow to the industry ... Of the approximately ap-proximately SI 00, WJ. 000 spent by the film fans yearly. "GWTW" tmlAn-rl $:;2. 000.000 which left only a rnTe J1;?. 000. 000 in the pot for other oth-er rnoorn-pitchers. Our of the correspondents bark fro;;i Kurope brought this story, v.hir.h he s-iys w;is censored when he tr,'"l to s'tkI it . . . lJuring one of Churchill's ' pf-;i r;i rice in p:irli:i-m'Tit. p:irli:i-m'Tit. a member (?ot up find dc-n dc-n .-in'l'rj lh:it C'hurrhill expl.'iin why i:AI-' did riot homo K'-rlin citi.'-ns v.' ll as G'Trn.'in rnib'.'iry objec-1 objec-1 1 , . . The prime minister re-p re-p "I ;iv;ure you nolhing would i;ive me i;re;iler p!'-;i.ure th:tn to in-Mruet in-Mruet the HAK to bomb the Wil-h Wil-h lm'-:ii ;ir.-e, but. unfortunately, with me b'nlnesa before pleasure." |