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Show il l l , j ...;'. - j,., -.'J The New York and Hollywood Scene: Faces About Glammerville: Al Jolson spellbinding a squad of U. S. Marines at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool . . . Bette Davis and Sec'y Morgenthau thrilling the uniformed men at the Hollywood Canteen . . . Dinah " Shore thrushing nine ditties for them . . . Bonita Granville showing Lt. Joe Wade the cine-magicians. cine-magicians. He's all mended from that New Guinea crackup . . . Ella Logan's real tears as she micro-phoned micro-phoned "That Old Feeling" to the China-Burma-India sector via the Mail Call program, which isn't heard by the public here . . '. Veronica Lake, tiny as a doll, floating float-ing to the rhythms of Emil Coleman's Cole-man's and Phil Ohman's crews at the Mocambo . . . Lovely Marianne Mari-anne O'Brien of the Warners' factory fac-tory surrounded by Marines in the Clover Club . . . Miriam Hopkins at La Rue with her constant companion, com-panion, who never was itemed as her favorite male. He's a Greek biggie . . . Bob Hope and his Johnny John-ny Weismullcr hair-do. "No cracks," he warns with a threatening threaten-ing finger, "I'm doing a pirate picture." pic-ture." Marshal Rommel (according to Britishers who made their escape back to our lines) has a sense of humor, be thinks ... He made several British officers attend his frequent lectures, during which he aflected n pose that the Battle of Africa wns a sporting event. He would give these prisoners a testimonial testi-monial dinner with all the pomp he could muster on the desert. Big entrances, en-trances, place cards, introductions, salutes and so on . . . And then, while the German staff dined on excellent ex-cellent cuisine, the British prisoners were served a meal consisting of their own K-rations captured with them. Rommel also delighted in pointing out their errors and why they were captives. He was asked by a correspondent: "To what do you credit your success? How will the enemy ever beat you?" . . . With a gleam in his monocled eye Rommel replied: "The German Army is great because of its great organization. I know exactly when I will enter a town. One month ahead I know what suite I will have in which hotel. If, however, some day, I march into a place and go to my suite and find another German general then I will know we are licked!" . j The "Oklahoma" cast is reported doing so much ad libbing that "they are spoiling the show." Guild execs ex-ecs shrug and say: "Look at the box office" . . . The New York Post Office has broken all records in the district. To date this year it has done business totaling 103 millions . . . The book now on FDR's bedside bed-side table is "Rendezvous with Destiny." Des-tiny." The only comment on the book appeared in a Chicago paper briefly and a story in the Christian Science Monitor. Not a single review re-view has appeared on it yet . . . Hepburn's newest interest, they say, is a famed polo player . . . Add ditty similarities: "Time Waits for No One" and "Tales from Vienna Woods" . . . Lana Turner won't bark about it until she sees it here, but those delicious canapes Ray Bourbon served with cocktails the other sundown were made from dog food . . . R-R-Ruff-Ruffff! The Late Watch: Shirley Ross and her husband, Kenneth Dolan (who parted last season), are happier hap-pier than ever. They reconciled after aft-er he was quoted here as saying the fault was al his because: "I neglected neglect-ed my wife instead of my clients" . . . There will be a copyright war over U. S. rights to the song popular with the troops, "Lili Marlene" . . . Douglas Miller, who wrote "You Ca.i't Do Business With Hitler," told OWI chiefs that the war with Germany will last at least another year and with Japan two . . . T. Casey, the B'klyn Citizen editor, has written two songs with Johnny Tucker of Hook and Ladder Co. 117 in Astoria . . . All major networks banned the song, "Don't Change Horses," which has nothing to do with politics. It has been networked since April. The authors wrote "Mairzy Doats." Quotation Marksmanship: Noel Coward: The most terrifying thing to a man is a woman who cries in advance . . . E. Hemingway: The saddest thing in the world is the affection af-fection of man and woman; the most fortunate ending is by death . . . J. Porter: She whines him around . her finger . . . Mabie Bandy: Eyelashes Eye-lashes that could sweep the cobwebs from any man's heart . . . L. Corning: Corn-ing: Low clouds on the verge ol tears. Sallies in Our Alley: Bob Dunn's office boy requested the afternoon off (on the day of a double-header) saying: "Boss my grandmother " . . . Dunn cut him short: "Oh. come now, son. You're not going to pull that chestnut about your grandmother grandmoth-er being dead?" . . . "No, sir." was the reply. "She's home on furlough!" fur-lough!" ... At La Conga some velvet-knockers were gabbing aboul a gal whose beayty was in dispute . . . "She looks." said an admirer, "like something from Vogue!" . . . "a rejection slip." |