Show man about town newspaper men everywhere can be proud of the way one ot of them died in london his name one to remember was arthur F B portman many americans knew him through his by byline line addax that was tagged on the copy he penned for horse and hound for portman was one of Eu ropes best racing reporters Porta Port ians mans wife was an invalid bedridden bed ridden tor for several years she was unable to go to the shelters when the nazi bombers came over to wage hillers Hit lers war the way it was the last morning the port mans heard the raid siren the reporter went where he always went during raids to the bedside of his ailing wife and there he was killed with her by a bomb douglas mackenzie an australian scribe who distinguished himself in london until he connected with a new york paper was being shown the midtown places by confrere gene mchugh 20 years with the tame same sheet gene is a man of few ew superlatives but when macken tle asked him what sort of a fellow a rival was genes orchid was what any reporter would welcome on his tombstone hes a newspaperman period Perio dl 1 the headliners Head liners margaret lind says quote every actor has a certain amount of ego yeah tome sometimes times they think good and sometimes they think nobody else is same ladys comment actresses like to talk about themselves except when gargling ann Sheri dans warning there are some things girls have to know about men she means that it is less of a strain to walk some place with a man than go there with him in a taxicab adolphe line the screen is an educator sure a diploma from the screen entitles you to enter any kindergarten sinclair lewis has quit the stage because he complained acting took up tip too much of his time anybody who ever saw red play a scene knew he was bound to run out of time sooner or later the way he was consuming it new york fork novelette this is the very sad story of strawberry sam a milk wagon horse who had the west fifty eighth street beat sam would walk up onto the sidewalk to greet show folks coming home in the wee hours they usually gave him sugar lumps or pet his nose one dawning sam went too far and bit a chorus girls fingers so they treated him like a policeman who is being demoted they banished poor sam to the jackson heights sticks for three months but he took it all like a man land and is now back on the fifty eighth street beat again memos of a the fingerprinting ger printing of night club employees etc revealed six convictions against a tamed famed joynt owner joan burgess the lovely dancer and millionaire lio furrier merl will middle aisle happening to the broadway royalty Koy alty prince mike romanoff has gone to work in a night club and now duchess cynthia cavanaugh is booked at berto lottis as a thrush A famous actress was locked up in los angeles on a dope charge paul muni and nigel bruce almost came to blows on the hudson bay set page 40 in life has the giggling georgette mckee who plays hilda in ramparts we watch became mrs N H willis in illinois mischa auer will next marry joyce hunter vocalist with the henry king orchestra auer gave his wife the house and big coin for his freedom say christopher morley write kitty foyle that his daughter did and that the book was peddled under his name to make bigger money for her sounds in the night at the whirling top they grew to love each other more and more month after month and round after round at the beachcomber 1 I dont care r e if ashes got a skeleton in her closet as it aint her husband in leon eddies Eddle ls be careful gal one false move and im youral in the forty eighth st tavern what has he got that she gotten at the torch d she gives away kisses as though they were campaign buttons at armandis Ar mandos hes very good at inventing things especially liess lies in the mayan what a plagiarist you know a guy who can read and then critel this Is new york the burlesk temples dripping with stale biggie smoke giving ugly tinhorn shows years ago these same theaters were the scene of the most scintillating first nights the violent political argument between two women in the grand central terminal no political issues were mentioned one just like the type of campaign button of one can didace the other thought it was ad pretty the dreary beaner iea the cabbies tabbies cab bies stork club |