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Show 1 1 jj )t 1 1 (1,1.5 1 1 - Man About Town The Big Parade: Millionaire C. V. (Sonny) Whitney, who, intimates insist, will soon be back in circulation circula-tion . . . The newest of the serious romancers, Eddy Duchin and Carol Bruce . . . Jay Carlisle, whose merger with Marcelle Edwards is a Reno-go, and Virginia Langdon. his next? . . . Isabel Jewell of the moom pitchers and Bob Musel, the reporter, who are cheek-to-cheeking . . . Gladys Glad, more beautiful than ever, and groom M. Bellinger, who is hardly . . . Congressman Warren G. Magnuson of Seattle and Trudy Burke of the Ed Wynn show having their own New Deal . . . George White and divorcee Doris Donaldson . . . Judy Canova and her rumored new marriage name I in the near future) Johnny Diggs of i H'wood . . . Critic John Mason 1 Brown peacocking because of the new baby boy via Medical Center . . . Lady Brinsiey-Plunkett, who will sell her Rolls-Royce for a measly $8,000 . . . Harry James, who says he's been studying Milton Berle's new nose for weeks, but still can't tell on which comedian he's seen it before! ' Memos of a Midnighter: Could the Hotel Pierre's sleeping beauty (who took an overdose of sleeping pills and is still unconscious) be Mary Rogers, the Powers model? cne nasn i reported tor a tortnignt . . . Gloria Swanson's son is at the Republic Aviation plant at Farmingdale, learning how to build planes . . . Editor Frank Carson, a great newspaper man, has quit Journalism after 40 years for his Arizona ranch . . . The nearest thing the town has had since Coal Oil Johnny is a handsome young character named Homer Hines. A racetracker. He and his two assistants, assist-ants, H. Crump and Chas. Scott, hoss trainers, are the biggest spenders spend-ers in years. More spectacular than free fireworks. Simplee wunda-ful! wunda-ful! . . . What's Billy Rose cooking up with the owner of Roseland and the Gay Blades Ice Rink? . . . Harper's Harp-er's fiction editor, George Davis, wants to marry Gypsy Rose Lee. Modern Vignette: Busby Berkeley Berke-ley is one of Hollywood's top directors, direc-tors, who came to town to see the premiere of his recent clicker, "Strike Up the Band." He stopped at the Plaza, if you please, and after two days of being bored stiff with conferences, meetings, etc.' he phoned Prop. Proser at The Beachcomber Beach-comber . . . "How about rounding up some of the old gang, I'd love being with you all once more before I go back to the Coast?" he said . . . Proser phoned the "mob," Including every available showgirl on Broadway, to come to "a party" . . . You never saw such a crowd of lovely lookers . . . Everybody had a wonderful time, as did the guest of honor, whom nobody met ... In the excitement, a captain thought Berkeley was a lonely sucker. suck-er. He ushered him quietly to a rear table to get him out of the way . . . Busby was served two Zombies, chow-mein, and the check which he paid and then went home ... He didn't want to interrupt the fun! Broadway Rhythm: The Skouras-Newins Skouras-Newins indictment (for allegedly bribing Judge Manton), is coming up for trial on the 28th. The G-Men are seeking "Mrs. Newins." If she talks, they say, several famed lawyers law-yers may wind up in the clink . . . Alois Fabry, brother of the Esquire cartoonist, and Sally Sawyer of Vogue will be threaded next month . . . Wythe Williams reports that the planned radio program for National Na-tional Defense is in abeyance until after the voting. The valid reason being: "political commertial commitments com-mitments have consumed full time" . . . Jack Sterling and chornie Dot O'Neill are oof-ly clubby . . . The Gypsy Markoff-G. Schirmer Jr. idyll merger talk, which someone planted in the gazettes, put the "insiders" "in-siders" in stitches. Veddy fuddy . . . "Boyd's Daughter" which got the boyd from the critics, cost the Schu-berts Schu-berts 20 Gs. It happened in West 52nd Street early one recent morning . . . Two garbage-wagon heavers paused to lean against a taxicab while a cooperative co-operative taxi driver tuned up the volume on his radio which was giving the news roundup from the foreign correspondents . . . When they ended, one garbage collector jumped back onto his truck, rubbed his hands, and to his partner (who was lifting a refuse can) yelled: "Go ahead, Berlin!" Sounds in the Night: At the Hickory Hick-ory House: "See that blonde? That's his reputation" ... At the Enduro: "Why Grandma, what big guys you have!" ... At the Pago-Pago: "It's difficult to tell which is more questionable ques-tionable her conduct or his intentions" inten-tions" ... At the Brown Derby: "She's making a name for herself, all right You oughta hear what the rest of the cast calls her" ... At Armando's: "He's a friendly fellow. You know, the kind guys slap on the back and gals usually manage to slap on the face." |
