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Show I17SE8 id 1 1 - .. l ' .,-, J Aoft.'j of an Innocent Bystander: The Wireless: Agitation for a definite def-inite break with Vichy is growing on the networks. Louis Bromfleld, Waverly Root, Richard de Roche-mont Roche-mont and others argued that we should put the enemy label on Laval and the rest of the Hitler flunkeys . . . Lots of fun on the Columbia Workshop show. "Let Me Tell You About My Operation." This outfit sometimes blunders on the yarn, but the presentation is always crisp. It's a program with a style . . . Somebody Some-body in need of some new angles arc the sponsors of the class musicals. What are they so awed about? It's only a song they're announcing not a funeral, as their hushed tones lead you to suspect . . . Have a haha. Harry Flannery records in his good cook, "Assignment to Berlin," that he was forbidden to broadcast the word "Nazi." It seems the Nazis themselves know how the word smells in free lands. Man About Neio York: Mayor LaGuardia will soon officiate of-ficiate at his last wedding for the duration. The bride will be Marian Anderson, famed oriole. The groom will be a surprise to the Mayor and the nation . . . Norma Shearer is not sealed. Says her wedding ring is the one Irving Thalberg gave her . . . The Mickey Rooneys are about to confirm the rumors which others have denied . . . Judy Garland's front page story is being edited . . . Steve Crane, who eloped with Lana Turner, spent his last ten Gs banging bang-ing at the H'wood gates. "This Is the Army" will continue its run until Oct. 1. Then tour coast-to-coast in principal cities. If a radio ra-dio deal clicks Army Relief will be richer by another $130,000 . . . The Ziegfeld Theater is for sale for $300,000. A radio chain may buy It . . . One of the glamour gals from H'wood will be dropped from pictures pic-tures (all studios banning) if she doesn't quit those 3-day binges . . . Reader's Digest and the Satevepost have reconciled. The Digest will carry H. Sherman's Post piece on Inflation . . . Julius Streicher's "Der Stuermer" describes the editorial staff of the N. Y. Times as consisting consist-ing of: W. Winchell, D. Thompson, W. Pegler, W. Lippmann and Mrs. E. Roosevelt. i Bing Crosby is hoping for an Air Corps assignment . . . Harper and Brothers will publish "Sabotage" by A. Kahn and M. Sayres. The expose alleges a Nazi plot to sabotage U. S. morale via certain congressmen hot unknown to readers of this dep't . . . The most snobbish of the Miami Beach hotels will not open this season sea-son the snoboteurs. Spy No. 1 (Dasch) worked as a waiter nt Glen Island Casino . . . The Count Von Reventlow (Barbara Huttors ex) and the Dep't of Justice Jus-tice ngents in Colorado are having tete-a-tetes . . . M. Arlen, the book writer, is down to 110 very ill in Mow England ... If you hear him raying: "He's nuts!" "Swell guy," 'Terrific" and "No foolin'?" that's Eis Majesty the King of Greece . . . The Book-of-the-Month choice for October will be "The Seventh Cross" iy Anna Seghers (Little Brown) and "They Were Expendible" by W. L. White (Harcourt Brace). March of Time's "Men of the Fleet" is a honey of a recruiter . . . Anthony Cramer, one of the alleged Nazi spy aids, had a plastic nose op about 2 months ago . . . Two more picture detective mags have been jarred from the mails because of bscenity . . . Beulah Macfadden, the mag man's daughter, and Rob-rt Rob-rt Decker, the tennis champ, will oe knotted shortly . . . Hollywood 11m director Raoul Walsh one month ago turned down $30,000 for lis race horse, Grand Manitou. It iied the other day. Standard Oil of N. J. is inviting stockholders around the nation to a leries of swank dinners (which get oo publicity) in order to explain the srarious attacks against it . . . Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr. will be tditor in chief of "Naval Review" 3ue on Navy Day . . . Elissa Landi .s writing her autobiog in novel !orm. Col. Gomez, the playboy and tpender, is with us again. The Venezuelan Gov't, which barred him once, welcomed him back and turned over to him the three million tmacker estate confiscated from his parent . . . Rarely carries less than P100 bills for tips. The Front Pages: The bad news from the Russian fronts led the editorialists edi-torialists to rebuke us for hoping too much. We've been drunk on optimism, op-timism, they scolded, figuring all the Bght had gone out of Hitler . . . Even the gauleiter rags over here changed their tune. They had been worrying about a Red Army victory, but once they got scared they found out that's what they wanted . . . The Times, which has always been nice to Congress, had to express its disgust for the sappier members. Buy War Bonds |