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Show III! New Yorkers Are Talking About: Richard Tregaskis, INS correspondent corre-spondent and author of the click, "Guadalcanal Diary," is due back loon with a new manuscript. His royalties on "Canal" are over $60,000 ... A few years ago he was peddling ped-dling sewing machines during a Summer vacation to pay the next year's tuition at Harvard . . . Herbert Her-bert Clyde Lewis was a rewrite man over at the Herald Trib not many weeks ago. One night he did a piece for the mags, but all spurned it . . . Except Whit Burnett at Story Magazine Maga-zine . . .Paid the top price, too . . . $50 ... Lewis needed that $50 . . . You may have read it . . . Tha title: "Two Faced Quilligan" . . . 20th Century Fox bought it for $25,000 and now Lewis is out there at the studio scribbling things at $750 per . . . Jimmy Durante, however, how-ever, probably never will amount to ! much as a litree man . . . Cosmo-j Cosmo-j politan asked him to jot down 300 I words on "What . Is Wrong With Women?" and he can't get started, claiming he can't find nothin' wrong wid 'em . . . Jan Valtin can't sell a line until reviewed by Mr. Whiskers. Whisk-ers. CBS keeps Its commentators on the breathless list by telling them to be ready for overseas assignment on 24 hours' notice ... If you have $10,000,000 you can buy the Blue Network. life Story mag will soon unveil what it calls a. racket. It will slam the fortune-tellers, allegedly preying on war mothers and kin ... It reminds us of the wealthy man whose hobby was fortune-tellers . . . One day about 12 years ago he was having his fortune told and the teller tell-er asked: "Are you building a big home?" . . . "Why yes!" he said . . . "Well," she told him, "when It Is finished you will die!" . . . He and his family have been living In it since but he has never really had it finished . . . Workmen are Instructed to keep adding this and that to it . . . They build a new wing or change a room and will never really "finish it" Add earaches: The society matron ma-tron in a swank spot who audibly groaned that the war was ruining her dinner parties. She simply couldn't get initialed matchbox covers cov-ers any more! . . . "Watch on the Rhine," the Lillian Hellman prizewinner, prize-winner, was written around actual events in the life of a man named Katz ... A gov't film now being made is called "The Fall of Italy" . . . Joseph E. Davies refused to broadcast from Russia or write articles arti-cles for high U. S. fees. "I am only a letter carrier," he said . . . Tip-oft Tip-oft on the Argentine situation: "Confessions "Con-fessions of a Nazi Spy" is not al-' lowed to be shown there. Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Magic Lanterns: "The Russian Rus-sian Story" is a record of ten centuries cen-turies of that nation's struggles against invaders. If you want to know how far the Nazis have strayed from civilization watch their troops at Smolensk advancing behind women wom-en and children. The Networks: Dinah Shore with Paul Whiteman and his wizards, Summering in the spot vacated by Edger Bergen, are as good a half hour as you'll find on the dials . . . Correspondent Wallace Carroll on "We, the People" revealed how Pierre Laval picks up a few extra francs. His print shop, Carroll reported, re-ported, gets out the Nazi forgeries . . '. "Easy Aces" celebrates 13 years on the air. A pair of Aces, It seems, remains a good bet The Magailnes: Somerset Maugham Maug-ham in Red Book observes that when London was being bombed from sunup sun-up to sundown, the detective novel won added popularity. Imagine that: With suspense showered on the Britishers, Brit-ishers, they had to look for it in books! . . . The startler in Fortune (published by Henry Luce, her husband) hus-band) is the reference to Clare Luce's "globaloney" as "ill-mannered." Lieut. James Bnrchard, formerly with the World-Telegram (and now on the staff of Stars and Stripes at Algiers) is probably the first to be divorced via V-Mail . . . His wife sent him some forms to fill out, but they apparently were lost or sunk en route . . . Mrs. Burchard then put the necessary papers on a V-let-ter and sent them to her husband ... He signed them mailed them back and the divorce was grantee". When the trial of George Sylvester Viereck (admitted Nazi agent) starts on the 18th, several surprise witnesses wit-nesses dug up by the FBI will worry the defense . . . Harry James says the "greatest song" he's ever heard Is Robin and Warren's "No Love, No Nothin'!" ... On July 15th the U. S. will have been in this war longer than it was in the last one . . . Cesar Romero is now in the Coast Guard ... An eve'g gazette Is readying a series to show that vice and gambling have never been to open since the early 1920s. |