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Show H'H 1 New Yorkers Are Talking About: The Columbia University professor profes-sor (sympathetic to Japanazi groups) who just became a Lt. Col. in the Military Intelligence Reserve Corps . . . The mysterious disappearance of lovely Caroline Lee Gilbert, daughter of a newspaper man. Hei mother is limp from the heartache heart-ache . . . The Merciless Truth: In Damon Runyon's new film, "Butch Minds the Baby," (which they say is a corker) to wit: "On Broadway a character is a jerk with personality." personal-ity." The cluck colyumer who is playing play-ing into the paws of the enemy by falling for and publishing stuff comforting com-forting to Gocbbels. Two of his offerings of-ferings one week were so palatable tc the Jack-Axis that their shorl wavers here (lashed the phony paragraphs para-graphs abroad . . . But wait! Within With-in 48 hours CBS reported that its short wave monitors here heard the same items credited to "reliable American sources" from Berlin and Rome. Imagine! . . . The Gov't, however, sent for the Soandso the other day and read the riot and espionage act of 1917 to him . . . 20 years in prison next time. Counsel Ed Foley (of the U. S. Treasury) and his extreme satisfaction satisfac-tion over the ousting of all Nazi-philes Nazi-philes from the German Aniline firm. Congrats to Mr. Morgenthau, Foley and the agents for making the U. S. safer without those bums. Joan Fontaine's verbal lashing of a femme colyumist (not L. P.) after she won the Academy Award. Nasty wordage made Joan feel better, and she wound it up by inviting the coward cow-ard into the alley . . . Eve Symington's Syming-ton's groom's huge portrait of Capt. Colin Kelly in his defense plant to inspire the workers . . . Press agents on Broadway who hand col-yums col-yums or anyone military information informa-tion rumors or facts. They are inviting in-viting an awful lot of trouble . . . A word to the wise men of B'way should be sufficient, but it probably won't be . . . Anyway, please don't offer any of it to me . . . Tom Dewey who says he never was offered of-fered Biddle's job, so he couldn't have spurned it. Capitol Hill wags claim Congress' recent try for pensions wasn't so unreasonable. They name members of both Houses who'd be worth mouey to the Gov't out of office. Daladicr told the Riom courtroom that petty bickering among French statesmen in time of crisis is what gave France to the Nazis on a platter. plat-ter. It is also worth noticing that Laval, the best administration hater over there, was taken care of when the conquerors came. Paula Crystal, the concert singer, tells of the air raid warden making the rounds of an apartment house. One question is: "Have you any pets here?" . A woman on the 11th floor admitted admit-ted she had a rooster in the apartment. apart-ment. He warned her it was illegal, and then went on. On the floor below he asked a tenant, "Have you any pets?" She said no she hadn't because a small city apartment was no place for pets. "Well," he said, "the woman wom-an above you keeps a rooster." Whereupon the 10th floor lady let out a piercing shriek and then swooned. When she recovered she told the warden that for months she had been visiting a psychiatrist on the advice of her husband because every ev-ery time she told him she heard rooster crow, he'd shou "you are going crazy." Boomerang: Here's the latest lat-est "draft dodge" gossiped around . . . Get yourself a "friendly" doctor, a case of pneumonia and a private room in a hospital preferably a private pri-vate hospital where your "friendly" doctor handles the case. The usual (and latest) sulphur sul-phur drug therapy is administered. adminis-tered. Then the patient suffers "after effects" of the sulfanilamide. sulfanila-mide. He gets pernicious anemia. ane-mia. Continued consumption of the drug keeps him in this condition. con-dition. The payoff is that the drug not only breaks down the red corpuscles in the blood stream but it DESTROYS THE BRAIN CELLS TOO! When the slap-happy draft-dodger draft-dodger finds out it's too late-he's late-he's nuts! Charades becoming a popular indoor in-door sport again around the mid-town mid-town bars. Frixample: I came home and told my valet I was dressing dress-ing for a dinner, so he laid out my dress clothes, brown shoes and no studs. What book am I reading? . . . "How Green Was My Valley" you dope. The gag amusing Washington: "I hear they are setting up another office to be called O.U.C.H." . . . "Office of Utter Confusion and Hysteria." |