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Show The Broadway Scene: White Housers hear Mr. Big has an offer from a famed mail order firm to serve as chairman If he doesn't make It in "48. . . . The Elliott El-liott Roosevelts are miffed with the mag which published their Stalin interview. in-terview. Allege several Q and A's were omitted. . . . They say Fred Astaire's sister, Adele (Lady Cavendish), Caven-dish), will wed a Chicago businessman. business-man. . . . Earl (Madman) Muntz has purchased a fleet of 600 cabs for shipment to Tokyo. . . . They say King George of Greece hasn't a drop of Greek blood in him. . . . Site for the new Hotel Astor will be 53rd and I Park. . . . Eisenhower boosters shelved the idea when they learned that Willkie buttons cost $90,000. Freda Hempel, the Met star, is going go-ing into the cosmetic biz, while famed cosmeticians are going out of their alleged minds. j "Governor" llerman Tal-madge Tal-madge and his first wife were guests of the Japanese government govern-ment (on an all-expenses paid honeymoon) before the Pearl Harbor attack. The Japs paid for it in exchange for pro-Jap writings, ads, etc., which his father fa-ther printed in his Georgia paper, pa-per, "The Statesman." It all came out in Georgia at the time, and on other occasions and was never denied. The Stage Door: MGM is planning to sue Lana Turner for "damages" as the result of her hopping to Mexico Mex-ico without permish. They're not optimistic about collecting but they hope it will discourage Lana and others Ed (Archie) Gardner, the radio star, is trying to persuade Ethel Merman to be his summer replacement on "Duffy's Tavern." He also has a radio format for her, If she will only listen. . . . Among other standees at the revival of "Sweethearts" was composer Victor Vic-tor Herbert's daughter, Ella H. Bartlett. Not a seat left. ... To persuade Dorothy Ross to star at the new Club Bagatelle, the owners built her an apartment there. . . . The day after Grace Moore was killed, local phonograph shops were hesieged for her recordings. Former Secretary of State Byrnes was flying to Cleveland to appear on a program sponsored spon-sored by Henry Luce's news- mag. ... A reporter on the plane asked Byrnes how he felt about George S. Messersmith, U. S. ambass to the Argentine. . . . Byrnes said he didn't care for him; in fact, he didn't like anyone who wore a red carnation carna-tion In his lapel. One of his pet aversions, added Byrnes. . . . Then the plane landed and the first to greet the party was publisher pub-lisher Henry Luce, their host. . . . With a red carnation in his button-hole!!! The Press Box: Just when everybody every-body was getting indignant about the ! elections in Poland, Georgia's lower house passed the white primary bill disenfranchising a million Americans. Amer-icans. Oh, brother. Will Pravda have a holiday with that one I . . . The N.Y. Newspaper guild's replacement replace-ment director, Carmen Henry, warned out of town scribes to shun New York for jobs. Because staffs ' are bulging with returned servicemen service-men and their wartime replacements. replace-ments. "Don't," she cautions, "get stranded in the Big Burg." . . . Tip to feature editors: See if you can get that beribboned air corps vet to gab. He peddles hot chestnuts from a little cart at 47th and Broadway. Broad-way. Eavesdropped at the Park Avenue: "I'm warning you, at the rate you're going, you'll die broke!" . . . "That's not what's worrying me," sighed Wingy Grober, "I just don't wanna live broke!" The Airistocrats: Dust off a halo for "The Greatest Story Ever Told" via ABC. The program came up with a revolutionary commercial style: The sponsor is merely identified iden-tified at the start and conclusion of the show there are no tiresome plugs. . . . Van Johnson should save his singing for the bathtub. His dueting with Dinah Shore was as musical as gears being stripped. . . . Henry Morgan's twitting of the digest di-gest mags was an elegant spooform-ance. spooform-ance. . . . Peter Lind Hayes' chuckler: A movie star celebrated her silver wedding she just married mar-ried her 25th husband. . . . Jane Russell's thrushing on Kay Kyser's stanza proved that she can entertain enter-tain with a song as well as a sweater. Winchellebritles: Sonja Henie, a real good skate. . . . June Havoc, the s-xy blonde, and Luba Malina, the ditto brunette, keeping each other oth-er from getting lonely at tne 1-2-3. What a waste of girl! . . . Bill Orr (of the cinemas) in Reuben's getting get-ting howls with his trick cravat, which slowly rises and falls without with-out using the hands! .... Marion Drake, the model, says she is a direct di-rect descendant of Sir Francis Drake. She plans to write a biog about the 01' Soanso. . . . Teen, agers saluting Grn. Ike. |