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Show New York Heartbeat Memos of a Midnighter: Farmer Paul Whiteman gave farmer Frank Norris of Time's staff a nice Aberdeen Aber-deen angus bull and farmer Norris is mighty appreciative . . . Ex-Senator McNaboe says if that item about keeping the wackiest company referred to him (which it didn't) he -can prove it's inaccurate, etc . . . Eddie Cantor, whose flickers (except "40 Mothers") never grossed less than two million dollars, is 3,000 miles from H'wood, where they are producing a dozen musicals. No wonder the bankers who back some of those movie firms are getting grayer . . . Reader's Digest will soon have another competitor . . . Geo. Miller of the Jolson show is looking for the press agent of Kelly's Stables for erroneously coupling him with Martha Raye via nightly phone calls there. Sounds in the Night: At the Circle Club: "Don't ever get the reputation reputa-tion of being 'a good guy' on Broadway. Broad-way. It's as bad as being a 'nice girl'!" ... In the 48th St Tavern: "He got his earache from his wife and his eyestrain from other women" wom-en" ... In Jimmy Kelly's: "Why, he's so yeller he could give transfusions transfu-sions to a lemon" ... At Club 18: "He's as cheap as glue and twice as sticky" ... At the Russian Kretch-ma: Kretch-ma: "He's a nerve specialist gets on everybody's" ... In the Stork: "Has anybody ever called them Ber-linsects?" Ber-linsects?" . . . In the NBC news room Sunday night at 9:14: "Flash! The Italian army has just advanced twenty miles into Italy!" New York Novelette: Harry Nielson Niel-son is a bartender in a saloon at 663 2nd Ave., New York ... If he hadn't heard about customer Daly's "robbery" of two diamond rings, two innocent girls might have gone to prison . . . The girls are Wendy Martin and Jean Sauve, who were visiting Daly's apartment when he said his two diamond rings (valued at $350) disappeared ... He caused the arrest of the girls . . . Miss Martin's lawyer bailed her out, but Miss Sauve had to stay in a cell . . . Then one Robert Mallon read the item in the papers and happened to mention it to bartender Nielson, also a friend of Daly's . . . "Why, Daly never lost any rings. I've got them in an envelope in my safe for him!" said Nielson. "He was too intoxicated intoxicat-ed one midnight to be carrying such valuables, so he gave them to me for safekeeping" . . . Finally, Daly, whose brain had cleared by this time (weeks later!) told the District Attorney of his mistake . . . The complaint against the two innocent girls was dismissed without even an apology or expression of regret. Broadway Ticker-Tape: Merry Madcap Fahrney tells chums she will marry that German Baron when his decree is final. And that they'll dwell in a Berlin castle. Well, it serves them both right . . . F. Tone picked up the darndest burning epidermis epi-dermis at Palm Springs, Calif . . . Edith Luce, the lovely "Louisiana Purchase" show girl, and Eduardo Matthews are One and One Who Make Twooooo . . . Irene Morgan. 17-year-old senorita at Havana-Madrid, Havana-Madrid, still gets posies and taffy from Bill Young, whose pop is an exec at a baking firm. They eloped when they were 14 three years ago. Their folks had it annulled making them wilder about each other than il they were sealed! They will wed in June when she's 18 . . . Ambassador Ambas-sador J. P. Kennedy's real ambish is to become a movie producer! . . . The H. R. Luces of Time, Life, For-chin, For-chin, etc., plan a holiday (a what?) in China, in January ... Is Bullitt to succeed Ambassadaniels in Mexico? Mex-ico? . . . The papers say the Greeks are chasing the Mussolinis in tanks left behind by the run-aways . . . That revises the proverb to read: "Beware of gifts bearing Greeks!" Typewriter Ribbons: Jean Dickenson's: Dicken-son's: Hollywood is like its fruit colossal in size, but you're not quite sure of its flavor . . . Thomas Mann's: The waves lowered their heads like bulls and charged against the beach . . . Sinclair Lewis': A smile like an airy pat on the arm . . . Abe Martin's: He holds a dancing partner as if he's afraid she'll explode . . . Jerome K. Jerome's: Je-rome's: Idleness and kisses, to be sweet, must be stolen . . . Gellett Eurgess': He had a hand like 20 cents' worth of bananas . . . Hugh Walpole's: She was the sort of disagreeable dis-agreeable old woman who is forever slapping the face of the present with the dead hand of the past . . . Guy De Maupassant's: She wept like a gutter on a rainy day. Manhattan Murals: The first glimpse of New York city by air-like air-like the taste of your second glass ot champagne . . . The money jive talkers in Harlem: "Lend me a foot." meaning lend me $2 . , . The punch-drunk third-rate fighters, who loiter near 8th and 51st in The Pursuit of Slap-Happiness . . . The girls who have bulls-eye trigger fingers fin-gers in those midtown shooting gal-Irrits gal-Irrits . . . The chalked message on the wall at 4th and Dth: "Margie. You didn't show up. Nuts to you. Ed." |