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Show Private Papers of a Cub Reporter After the premiere of a new show, some of the first-nighters who were talking about it at the Hurricane were overheard to say: "Boy, they sure knocked thai- show, didn't they?" "Yeah," said Harriet Hilliard, "A regular first-knife audience." Somebody asked Bobby Byrne, the kid bandleader, how it feels' to be in the big dough with a commercial airshow. "To me," Bobby said, "the only difference between a $25 suit and a $60 suit is that a $60 suit has only one pair of pants." Clare Boothe tells this about her trip to Rome last spring. She noticed no-ticed how incongruous it was to see all the famous ruins right in the heart of the city. She asked about it and the answer was: "Mussolini has an Imperator complex, and since he is unable to build an empirethe em-pirethe only thing he can do is excavate one!" What this oountry apparently needs is more flying heroes in planes instead of in politics. The G-Men are holding a "John Brown." who was caught with copies cop-ies of applications for Nazi spy work. The chump doesn't know what a good Nazi he is. With his record as thief and forger, forg-er, plus two Sing Sing terms, he could be a big man in Berlin maybe may-be at the head of the bureau of education! The Detroit Times editor forwards the scoop that Mr. Knudsen's name is not pronounced "Ka-noo-sen " as his colleague Leon Henderson stated stat-ed the other day. And it isn't pronounced pro-nounced "Ka-noodsen," either as a countrywoman of the defense' chief wrote us. It is: "Nood-sen," as some of us contended right along. "That's the way we pronounce it " explained Martha Nood-sen, "I'm sure father pronounces it that way." ine turns rewrote Maugham's sto-ry. sto-ry. "The Letter." to make Bette Davis Da-vis d.e at the finish. This was necessary neces-sary because Miss Davis was a murderess. mur-deress. The movie censors' penal coae orders that all criminals musl be punished for their crimes. Veriwell. But the half-caste worn-an worn-an (known as the Eurasian eraser) daggered Bette and got off scot-free. scot-free. So did the lawver whe suborned a witness to save Bette's necka disbarring offense. And what aocut Herbert Marshall, whe supplied the coin to fix the witness' |