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Show Li i itmi l A't'iu York Navsboy Frenchmen here Insist DeGaulle Is being held prisoner In his own house in Paris by order of the com-my com-my high command. . . . Rep. Rankin's Ran-kin's report on Hollywood (to his Un-American Committee) has been sent back for re-writing. So poorly presented, etc. . . . Sumner Welles, former Ass't Sec'y of State, has an old farm near Babylon (L. I.) for sale. A home is on the grounds. . . . Interesting observation: That big page ad in which the N.A.M. attacked at-tacked Bowles was prepared by the Benton & Bowles advert agency, of which he is vice-chairman. . . . One of the best informed State Dept. officials complains that too many of the top men in Washington are fiddling while the world burns that World War III has already started in the Eastern Hemisphere! . . . Mr. Justice Douglas of the Supreme Court can, if he likes, be Assistant President of the United States. Nylons are no longer the top black market item. A $5 white shirt in many spots brings 20 buz. . . . Lili St. Cyr of the night clubs can't wear nylons. Allergic I . . . W. Z. Foster, chief of the U. S. Communist Commun-ist Party, issued a rebuke to a headline writer on the local commy paper for "stupid journalism." . . . Doris Lilly (no dunce, she) inserted insert-ed a classified ad in a paper advertising adver-tising for an apartment and got 30 replies next day. And an apt. I . . . Sgt. Chet Skreen observes that the legend about British women having hav-ing no sex appeal took a terrible debunking when H'wood hired two British actresses to film the most amorous women Amber and Scarlett! Theodore Dreiser's "The Bulwark" Bul-wark" (his testament novel on the decline of 20th Century morals) will be published by Doubleday next month. Original publication date was the fall of 1917. It will be the April Book Find Club selection. . . . Fred Allen and his agent are making mak-ing a money settlement after a long time romance. ... Republicans who planned spending oodles for radio time have held up their plans since the Demmys started slugging each other. Lucky stiffs. . . . Some hotels are offering permanents as high as $500 to move out. . . . Black market butter is selling at $1.10 the lb. . . . Three-fourths of the people in the world could not read the Atlantic Charter if written writ-ten in their own language that's how much Illiteracy there is! Backstage Vignette: It happened in Tallulah Bankhead's undressing room. ... An old bore got by the doorman and found Talu's retreat. . . . Before she could say: "Now looka here!" he brought forth one of those spellbinding ant villages in which the ants build tunnels and whatnot. . . . The star was fascinated fasci-nated by them. . . . "They are wonderful won-derful little things," he kept saying, "they really are. They never stop working, always doing something always keeping busy: They have their own police force and their own army, too!" . . . "Hmmmmm," hmmm'd Talu with her straightest face, "no navy, I suppose." Sgt. Stanley Volchok forwards the U. S. Army paper (The Lud-wigsburg Lud-wigsburg Sentinel) from Germany in which Fritz Kuhn was interviewed. inter-viewed. They quote him as finally admitting: "All the reporters started start-ed muckraking me. They wanted to build me and the German-American Bund into something sensational so that their papers would seD! Even my good friend Walter Winchell spoke against me, and then the Dies committee Investigated me." Investigated him? It advertised him as a good American and denounced de-nounced me as "the leader of a sinister propaganda bund"! Ach, Fritz! How times change since 1933, no? You are back home in your beloved Germany undt Herr Dies is back home in oblivion. Sounds in the Night: At Leone's: "I love to stand at 42nd Street and Broadway and watch the frauds go by!" ... At the Blue Angel: "They have a lot in common they are hated by the same people." ... At the Latin Quarter: " 'Charming' is a word that means the joke was lousy but told by a very dear friend." ... At the Penthouse: "Whata snob! Holds her nose so high she nearly drowns when it rains!" ... At WJZ: "Like all bigots, that Congressman has yet to learn you can't lynch the truth!" ... At Club 78: "That Runyon is a Damon in the rough" ... At the Cub Room: "Nice feller. He'd give you a bottle of milk for a cow." Faces About Town: Walter Pid-gcon, Pid-gcon, Nancy Guild, Keenan Wynn and other H'wood notables (at the Stork blub) observing that they will be back in Movietown (via H. Hughes' new Constellation plane) "before you columnists wake up tomorrow! " Manhattan Mural: The "tent house" on Fourth Avenue where a 'var vet and his wife have pitched heir tent On the roof uf an office olds. |