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Show Notes of a City Slicker: i When Alexander Woollcott grad 1 ated from Hamilton College he nev I si stopped talking about his alma ' mater. So when the dramatic critio passed on, It was natural that his ashes be interred at Hamilton Col- ' lege Cemetery with a few intimate ' friends and associates attending the ; services ... It rained hard for a whole day and night before the urn j containing his ashes was lowered i into the ground . . . However, some- one miscalculated . . . The ribbon by which the urn was lowered proved two feet short . . . And so the urn had to be dropped (into the hole partly filled with mud and water) wa-ter) and when it fell all the mourners mourn-ers standing around the grave were splashed. "Just like Alec!" said a bespattered bespat-tered pal. "To the last a critic!" Katina Paxinou, one of the stars j In "For Whom the Bell Tolls," is ' one of the world's bitterest Nazi- i Fascist fighters. Katina learned how' to hate them before she left her native na-tive Greece. Ton can't get a work of art out of Italy if you are not an Italian citizen, citi-zen, according to BillyRose, an art collector himself ... A pal of his in Italy not long ago offered $100,000; for a Rembrandt and was informed! that he could take it with him by having a likeness of Mussolini paint-J ed over it . . . The paint, it wasi explained, could easily be washed' off without damaging the Rembrandt . . . "If they see you with a picture pic-ture of H Duce," said the dealer "they will not stop you." And so the art lover paid the $100,000 and had no trouble bring-, ing the picture into the United States . . . Where he easily washed away the painting of Mussolini to discover it was an oil of Mussolini! We asked a movie director how i some of them acquired great reputations repu-tations ... He offered this example exam-ple ... A famous character actor, in one of his early films, was doing a desert scene in which he was to portray a man dying of thirst . . . The director tried to get the actor to register the proper emotion, but the terrible ham only managed to look farcical . .' . Finally, after repeated failure, the director gavs-up gavs-up ... To get the idea across; however, he decided to photograph the actor's feet throughout the scene I showing him staggering along th desert dropping one of his possessions posses-sions after the other: First ha dropped his pack, then his gun, and I finally his canteen . . . The critics voted that scene the outstanding one In the film! Hecklers of the administration are having a field day with this on ... In Sicily, they'd have you believe, be-lieve, a peasant invited a comrade" to his home for a feast . . . After two bowls of soup, double offering of entree and a three-inch American! airloin steak plus several ears of Indiana corn on the cob (loaded with Maryland butter), Idaho potatoes (with more butter) and Georgia watermelon wa-termelon and oodles of New York cream for their delicious Yankee Doodle coffee, the guest beamed his appreciation. "Not yet!" interrupted the host. "Now comes dessert!" "What kinda dessert? How can w eat any more?" "Now comes Tootsie Rolls!" said the host. "Tootsie Rolls?" asked the guest. "What's Tootsie Rolls?" "Who knows?" shrugged the host. "Lend-Lease!" The Magazines: Liberty scoop the field with a report alleging that New York school children find their lessons so exciting they hate going: home when the bell rings ... I don't believe it . . . NewsweeW states that the 4th year of the war , produced only one great Allied general gen-eral Sir Harold Alexander . . . Zatso? How about Gen. Eisenhower, who may be FDR's running mato in the 1944 Presidential race? . . . Sumner Welles' typewriter ran away from him, Judging by his text io Coronet, Diplomatic jobs, he noted, are non-political and bring succesi if worked at hard enough . . . Would he say that now? ... In the SEP there is a nice, warm tale of the newspaper men covering the South Pacific. The biggest peril ol the job, warns the author, is capita) "I" poisoning . . . H. Brubaker'i best item in his New Yorker kidding: kid-ding: "The housing crisis in Washington Wash-ington is evidently worse than ever. Drew Pearson has had to move inta the doghouse." Lieut. Col. Elliott Roosevelt, enjoying en-joying a well-deserved furlough in the Stork Club the other night, was being congratulated by intimates. "You are thinner in the face," said a newspaper man, and ther pointing to his ribbons, added, "b a lot heavier across the chest." 'The only decoration that reallj counts," was the reply, "is the Purple Pur-ple Heart Medal, which I wish J had!" The Purple Heart is awarded onlj to the wounded . . . Elliott's adventures adven-tures cost him 43 pounds. |