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Show Editor's Note: While Winchell is on vacation, Jack Lait Is acting act-ing as guest columnist. Miscellaneous Midgets The Windsors will return to America Amer-ica next winter. The Riviera bores them. Their villa is still mined and they have to tread narrow paths, marked out for them. . . . The Robert Rob-ert Youngs, New Yorkers who entertained en-tertained Eddie and Wally at Newport New-port last summer, are abroad and have visited them. Young, a business busi-ness tycoon, has offered the duke a post with one of his companies. . . . It is unlikely that commerce will attract Windsor; even more unlikely unlike-ly that his family, which controls his income, would sanction it. Odds are that he will buy a house in Palm Beach, where he and his duchess have many friends. . . . "Doc" Hol-den, Hol-den, who was Fifl Widener Wich-feld's Wich-feld's second husband, is believed to be Windsor's undercover financial finan-cial agent in New York. Contacted at Newport, he refused to discuss his associations with royalty. The Duke family is in the movie business. And Doris is active in person. The tobacco millions, are helping finance Independent Artists, Inc., which includes in its roster Cary Grant, RosaUnd Russell and her husband, Dudley Nichols and Frank Vincent. . . . Hermitage Press will publish, on Oct. 5, the new book by Nick Kenny, "How to Write, Sing and Sell Popular Songs." What Nick doesn't know about the intricate, slightly crazy business wouldn't interest in-terest anyone. Among the mass of material will be an expose of song racketeers. Caveman, Get Tour Club Raymond Loewy, the artistic industrial designer (of autos and what not) has a 750 h.p. cruiser, the Media Luz, which he designed, berthed at the esoteric eso-teric Sands Point (L. I.) Rivi- 1 era. When Loewy expects guests, he sprays his cabins with a perfume labeled Savage j Love! Midtown Matinee (By Tom Weath-erly). Weath-erly). It was a southbound Fifth avenue bus. She got on at 57th street. . . . With apologies to Rogers and Hart: My heart stood still. . . . "This is it," I thought. . . . Never before had I seen. . . . Such a seraphic vision. . . . All pink and gold. . . . With shimmering gray-blue gray-blue stars for eyes. ... A red, red rosebud for a mouth. . . . And a tip-tilted tip-tilted nose. . . . My pulse raced. . . . My head reeled. . . . And my knees clicked together. . . . "There comes a time in the affairs of men, etc." ... I said to me. . . . And, brother, this is the time. . . . Watch, her closely. . . . When she gets off. ... You get off. . . . Then tip your hat. . . . Gallantly but with decorum. deco-rum. . . . And say something like this. ... "I beg your pardon, please don't misunderstand. . . . I'm not trying to be fresh. .'. .'But I just couldn't help speaking to you. . . . All my life I've dreamed about a girl. ... I never knew her name. ... I never even knew she existed. exist-ed. . . . Until just now. ... In other words. . . . You're the dream come true. . . . And I couldn't let a stupid stu-pid convention take you from me. . . . I've just got to know you." . . . Just then the bus stopped and she moved toward the exit. ... As she came opposite me. . . . She raised her left hand to grasp the stanchion. . . . And there they were. . . . Those two symbols of possessive posses-sive priority and self-imposed servitude. servi-tude. . . . The diamond solitaire and the platinum band. . . . Oh, well, there's always the French Foreign LegionI The average honest nie-htplnh draws about $20,000 a year on its concessions, usually half their gross intake. . . . This is frequently paid in advance, often two or more years' quota at the start, to finance the venture. . . . Banks lend money to concession contractors on prospects, trusting their keen judgment, based on intensive experience. . . . One typical club let us see its books. It grosses $21,000 a week, counting all sources. ... The original investment invest-ment was $105,000, of which the concessionaire con-cessionaire put up $50,000. Shows and two bands (plus relief bands on nights off) cost $5,000 a week; costumes, dance directors, etc., amortized, $500; advertising! $1,000; payroll, kitchen, waiters,' press agent, manager, $2,500; linen, lin-en, electricity, incidentals, $1,000. . . . The enterprise breaks even on $15,000-a-week gross intake, figuring figur-ing food and liquor purchases at about one-third the total receipts ... On $20,000, the profit Is $4 000-on 000-on $25,000. $7,500. I Corn Off the Cob-Laraine Day furiously hunting an apartment in the Sutton Place sector she's Interested In-terested in a legit show and wants to park here a while. . . . Henry Hull was summoned to fly to Hollywood to act in support of Charles Laugh-ton, Laugh-ton, and pressure was turned on to get him a reservation across the map. The "part" was six minutes of lying in bed. while Laughton read him the story of David and Goliath out of the Bible. june Haver's sister. Evelyn, hurrying to N. Y. to be a model. |