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Show LI 1 . -.j i.i.-j J Notes of an Innocent Bystander: Broadway Small-Talk: H. V. Kal-tenborn Kal-tenborn described him as "Von Rib-bentripe." Rib-bentripe." When we used it the air officials gave us a spanking . . . There's a Society for the Prevention Preven-tion of Disparaging Remarks About Brooklyn with headquarters in Manhattan . . . The East 35th Street station house is going after the clip-joints that "took" several visiting R.A.F. lads ... If Sec'y of the Navy Frank Knox wanted to scoop the world, imagine all the daily beats (about naval matters) he could tip off to the editors of his Chicago newspaper. Sallies In Our Alley: Hettie Cat-tell, Cat-tell, the reporter, records the one about Charles MacArthur and another an-other scribbler who worked with him on the same gazette. They were at . the funeral of a pal (and almost as stiff as he was) when the minister intoned: "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away" ... To which MacArthur yelled out: "Well, wot could be fairer'n that?" . . . The present feuding of the drama critics has started rumors that the Prize Play, instead of getting the customary custo-mary plaque, will be awarded the Gene Tunney Belt . . . NBC wouldn't permit commentator John B. Kennedy Ken-nedy to use this on the network: "The only thing left for Mussolini to do is go over Niagara Falls in a balcony." Manhattan Murals: The 14th Street bookshop which prominently displays Earl Browder's book: "This Way Out" . . . The impoverished looking gink on 42nd Street who peddles ped-dles "ten-dollar bills" three for a dime . . . The middle-aged swish who carries a woman's large purse, and stops in the street every few minutes to powder his nose . . . The sign in the Tenth Avenue mission mis-sion house lobby: "People Who Don't Write Home Don't Rate One!" . . . The midget usher at the Roxy who stands in the center of the huge lobby lob-by with a spotlight on him. Looks like a fugitive from a totem pole . . . The 50th and 6th Ave. restaurant which invites epitaphs about Hitler for the window display . , . The 9th Ave. place which placards: "We trust our food pleases you. Otherwise Other-wise we don't trust" Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter: Strikes and lockouts may deliver the knockout punch to the American way of life that the Panzer divisions divi-sions cannot It is time for plain talking. Democracy depends upon the individual ... It cannot survive upon the blood and sweat and tears of The Other Fellow . . . Unless management and labor are each ready to yield a point, Democracy will be forced to yield the field. By June, one and a hall million Americans will have left their homes and jobs for the Army and Navy . . . These boys are an example of sacrifice to both labor and capital . . . Their lives may depend upon American Amer-ican factories producing materials in time . . . Because Hitler's warehouses ware-houses already are bursting with ammunition for use against us all. These American boys know that the Battle of the Argonne was not fought on any six hour day with time and a hall for overtime . . . And they know, too, that the Minute Men never wasted a second waiting for a dividend check . . . The hour is too late for bickering . . . The time has come for all of us to think of public duty instead of private right . . . Every strike in the nation could be settled at once if the executive execu-tive in the front office (who gets $21 a day) and the man in the overalls over-alls (who gets $42 a week) would remember re-member this: That the American soldier (who gets $21 a month) is ready to die for them both! George Holland and George MacKinnon Mac-Kinnon were bitter rival chatter-colyumists chatter-colyumists on Boston newspapers . . . MacKinnon eventually quit and came to New York ... He is now at Medical Arts Hospital, where he underwent a major operation . . . He almost had a relapse the other day when his estranged wife (also a Boston newspaper writer) wrote him that she was very sorry to learn about his being so ill by reading George Holland's column! A Union College prof has predicted that In ten billion years the sun will lose the fuel that keeps it going . . . Gosh! Another thing for Miami hotel-keepers to worry about ... An Omaha reader writes that he asked a local German storekeeper why he opposed Hitler and Naziism ... He replied: "Even Hitler'B Aryan air-rastles air-rastles have bars on the windows." Arthur Krock got agitated over the threat of Gov't censorship, and yelled "Boo!" in his New York Times colyum. One neighbor he failed to scare was the Topics of the Times pillarist, a column to his left. The Topicker, the very next day, kicked off: "Freedom of the press was never nev-er mo-e widespread or more secure than It Is today" . . . Hollywood reporter re-porter are ganging up against a censor cen-sor threat. It would violate the freedom free-dom of the prens, they foci. If they were made to agree on whom Betty Grable is eating her dinners with. |