Show e i II x People You Meet j Victor Mature lature formerly of Holly 0 wood and Broadway now of th the U. U S. S Coast Guard He fur fur- in the Broadway arena aga again aga a the other midnight for the first tun time e g in a long spell Just Just back from long convoy duty and now gone again Proud of his promotion promotion promo promo- tion and the part he is playing in the war The other night his huge l hands were and 9 tough What one of us remarked re re- marked No manicure Oh I couldn't have a manicure manice ur he replied seriously The l fellows fellowson s on the ship would be in stitches S No squawks Just one little lit lit- tle tie one The way they keep teasing him him about about Miss Hayworth c Amon Carter Prosperous newspaper publisher from Fort l Worth He and his w wife e were divorced about a year ago but they both patronize the Stork Club a lot And never interfere with each others other's pleasure They simply do not talk any more The other night the transatlantic phone operator operator operator opera opera- tor found him there Friends in Ed I I London had word of his son I Captured by the Nazis in Tunisia r The news was a relief I There had been none about the boy for so long He wanted to share a athe the news with his wife ex-wife but ex but he didn't know how And so he waited for someone they both knew mew to come in his daughter who told p 1 z the mother tt r Se se Bob Russell who cant can't speak a word of Spanish He wrote the to three foreign ditties ditties- 01 t Maria Elena Frenesi and sand Brazil Maria was the 1 first song sang in 16 years to hit the million mil mil- t lion copy division The words t to Frenesi he considers his worst l lyric His His words to Brazil lay layon on a publishers publisher's shelves for over a year year they they couldn't see it it His s latest lyric is heard at the Versailles I where they feature the song Dark Blue His His newest thrill is making making mak mak- ing Sing the Hit Parade last week with a grand torch called Dont Get Around Much Anymore Then theres there's Bea Wain whose voice hardly needs an introduction I to people who buy recordings and have a radio Bea Bea opened at atthe the Riobamba last night succeed night succeed succeeding ing Frank Sinatra whose click way was town talk recently Bea was nervous mister Not only was she taking over the spot vacated by a puller crowd but it washer was washer washer her night club debut too too Nervous Nervous Nerv Nerv- ous it seems because she was afraid she wouldn't be good enough Good enough She's merely merely merely mere mere- ly been featured on the Hit Parade and Magic Key programs and her recording of Deep Purple sold copies The Magazines l The vivid pictures about the siege of Sevastopol chains your eyes to the pages Look points out that the civilization that was saved with blood will have to be reconditioned with brains Ruth Mitchells Mitchell's story o of her life via American Magazine 1 is isa isa t ta a fine reporting job The notion about the Japs being incapable of fear is such a phony it might have been born on Broadway Harris who spent 40 years amo among g them offers some lowdown on the t tJ J Taps Japs' alleged courage in Harpers Harper's This Week includes a piece about city gals on the farms called t The Farmers Farmer's Step It sounds like the bluest of the anecdotes anecdotes anecdotes dotes after the Hays censors laundered laundered laundered laun laun- dered it Lost Generation It was our world and it Js is not today Pour then the wine and trim the candles down We were the fools who blithely lost our way And dumbly played the charlatan and clown Call for the fiddler name the lazy waltz Speak of the fragile beauty that has flown It is too la late te to lance us of o our r faults faults- We Ve must go on unheralded and alone There in the dust of f old e enchanted chanted Inns We sold sold the precious heritage 01 of manFor man manFor manFor For rancid wine and unimportant sins That stole the theme and purpose of our plan t It was our world and now and now that world is dead dead I And loneliness is all all that lies ahead D. n. n W. W Colin l McKenzie is a member of the Merchant 1 Marine Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpe three times In 24 hours Down Down at the Village Barn war bond rally he brought a lump to the throats of the patrons when he ne offered his three torpedoed med mcd medals als tb to the highest bond bidder g One man bought them but a Mr I Albert Clear of Wall Street bought l worth with the understand understand- understanding understanding ing rag that the medals be returned to i him McKenzie who has faced a adeath death man many Y times left the floor crying cry ing like a kid f i |