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Show Neiv York Heartbeat: Sillii-8 in Our Alley: The strict new parking regulations inspired this one . . . Jimmy Dorsey's drummer drum-mer came late for rehearsals with the excuse that he got a summons for passing a troilic light . . . "Well," said Dorsey. "that's a poor excuse. Why didn't you stop for it?" . . . "What!" exclaimed the drummer, "and take a chance on getting a parking ticket?" . . . The omer night several scribes were wondering won-dering about a green-with-envy col-yumist's col-yumist's war record . . . "He was with Herbert Hoover's Food Commission." Com-mission." explained a vet . . . "Yen," said another, as the crowd rocked with laughter, "he was the only casualty when a chocolate cream puff exploded in his face." Carole Lombard, one of the stars the 48 stars will always be proud of, died in active service selling defense de-fense bonds. Actors and actresses, directors, producers, cameramen, electricians and members from all the allied theatrical professions, have enlisted in some branch of the service. Giving their energy, time and money to playing benefits, buying buy-ing tickets for them and entertaining entertain-ing Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and the Coast Guard, etc. And it was only a few months ago when some Senators tried to stain the movie industry by alleging it was un-American! One thing we are sure of. There must have been a wreath sent by the Army to Carole inscribed with the highest compliment the Army can give a woman. To wit: "She was a Gentleman!" There's a Hollywood couple who want to get a divorce, but they can't agree on who gets custody of the spare tire. Notes of an Innocent Bystander : The Wireless: Sec. Knox's release to the newscasters, that it was stupid to bank on a crash in Germany, Ger-many, was good advice. Nobody is going to whip Hitler but his enemies, ene-mies, he reminded. Berlin wants us to imagine it is in trouble and uncover un-cover our chins . . . Just the same, it was nice to read in Anne O'Hare McCormick's Times spot that foreign for-eign broadcasts are reaching the ears of stay-at-home Heinies . . . Joe Louis at least got a laugh out of licking Butldy Baer. He told Eddie Ed-die Cantor why he donated his share of the gate to the Navy. "When I go overseas," said Private Joe, "I want a boat under me" . . . "The Court of Missing Heirs" is hunting for a 79-year-old man to give him $2,700. "What fun can a man that I n.au ffo TnAO" 1 n n- tener . . . "What fun can a man that old have?" corrected a blue-penciler blue-penciler . . . Every week radio is full of shows helping this and that worthy cause. The theatrical profession pro-fession should be proud of its contributions. con-tributions. Actors are always first and anxious to help, although they were the first to suffer when the government gov-ernment started cutting relief expenses. ex-penses. Remember? The Story Tellers: H. Hoover played target for the book reviewers' review-ers' arrows. He made a book out of his recent Satevepost pieces, called "America's First Crusade," ignoring Pearl Harbor. The Stuff was penned in 1934-35 when the Roosevelt trouncing was smarting acutely. The critics were stunned to discover that the Pacific battles apparently hadn't budged his opinions opin-ions . . . There is a timely article ' in Collier's called "Don't Believe a Word of It." It tells how the gullible gul-lible are needled into disunity tricks by shooting off their mouths on planted slanders against our defense de-fense . . . I.A.R. Wylie spreads a nifty tale across the pages of Liberty. Lib-erty. It concerns people who believe that "it's better to have a broken neck than a bowed one." The Front Pages: The most cheering cheer-ing war story of the week told about the Chinese victory at Changsha. The Chinese teased the foe into a trap by feigning weakness, then turned and ruined them . . . The Chinese press has grounds for squawking. China doesn't think Japan should be undersold. What does it matter what part of the world the Axis is trounced in, it inquires, objecting to Germany taking tak-ing the first beating . . . "From the Land of Silent People," a war book by Robert St. John, is getting big handclaps. He was an AP staffer staff-er in Yogoslavia when the wolves came, and it's all in the book . . . Edward Doherty, once of the dailies, now a Liberty writer, recalls his reporting days beguilingly in "GaU and Honey." The Big Parade: The Girl From Stockholm going into the Stanley Theater to see "The Girl From Len-' Len-' ingrad" Greta Garbo . . . Mrs. FDR. who originated the slogan, "Let's Grind Down the Axis" but is too modest to accept credit for it . . . Merle Oberon, being intro-troduced intro-troduced by that monicker and correcting: cor-recting: "Don't you mean Mrs. Alexander Al-exander Korea?" . . . The D. Toppings Top-pings IS. Heniel at all the sinful places hoping to run into (but hard!) the colyumers who had them dividing. |