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Show Hi New York Heartbeat The Big Parade: Victor Moore-the-merrier . . . Ethel Barrymore, whose acting is the only spotlight she needs . . . Martha Raye the one-gal Hellzapoppin' . . . Chico M;irx at Leon & Eddie's, In a checkered check-ered suit noisier than the floor show thrre . . . Frankie Hyera, the "Panama "Pan-ama flattie" clown a grown-up Mickey Rooney . . . Mrs. Jascha Heifetz coming out of Jay Thorpe's to drop a li-w coins into the cup of a passing blind violinist . . . Pris-cilla Pris-cilla Lane talking a cop out of giving giv-ing her a ticket near the Lincoln tunnel . . . Bunny Waters of the Billy Rose festival at the Horseshoe wearing a wedding ring. A what? . . . Cafe decorator Vernon Mac-Farlane, Mac-Farlane, studying the ruins of London Lon-don in a newspaper, and exclaiming: exclaim-ing: "Good heavens! My tailor's place has been blown to bits wotta pity!" . . Beaverbrook'i C. V. R. Thompson, who calls it "The Italian Quitzkrieg." Sallies in Our Alley: G. Henri-Haye, Henri-Haye, Vichy's envoy to the U. S., Is going home. France knows it is important to have a good man in Washington . . . "And," observed a critic, "that ain't Haye!" . . . Eddy Duchin knows an Italian general gen-eral who (in reporting to II Duce) was asked about the Albanian sit-cheea.vshun sit-cheea.vshun . . . "It's all Greek to me!" was the reply ... At a dinner din-ner the other night, when a speaker remarked that the perfect age for a woman was thirty, Toastmaster Bob Christenberry added: "Especially "Espe-cially if she is forty." Smalltown Vignette: Orson Welles had a lecture date to fill recently In a mldwestern town . . . The date came on a chilly, rainy night, and a thin crowd turned out . . . Moreover, More-over, the committee had neglected to provide a speaker to introduce , Welles . . He stepped onto the platform, looked over the scattered audience, and said: "You probably don't know me. I'm a stage director, direc-tor, producer, actor and designer. In Hollywood I'm a producer, director direc-tor and actor. In radio I'm a director direc-tor and actor. In fact, there's no point in continuing this thing. There are so many of me and so few of you!" Memos of a Midnighter: Doris Dudley and June Havoc no longer share the same apt. Reason: Life mag did a layout on Dudley's manse In White Plains and June hogged the lens for nearly 70 per cent of the pix . Margo is expected to file against F. Lederer within the fortnight fort-night . . . She's been long-distancing her New York attorney from Hollywood . . . The buzz has Rou-ben Rou-ben Mamoulian stitching with Irene Lee of Warner's story dep't soon , . . . Remember Tommy Jackson, who became famous playing the detective de-tective in "Broadway"? Well, he's now on the District Attorney's staff in L. A., as a special investigator . . The gab persists that Dewey will retire New Year's Day for private pri-vate practice . . . Hemingway says he is buying a house in Cuba, not switching citizenship. Manhattan Murals: The recent snow and slush putting a wet blanket blan-ket on the city's streets. The best Miami Beach ad of them all . . The bright little Christmas card shoppes that spring up every year at this time adding a little sparkle to the dreary town . . . The sign In the window of a hosiery shop: "Do Your Christmas Shopping, Girly!" . . . The Carnegie Hall Apartments which advertise: "Piano and Bath" . . The excited Broad-wayites Broad-wayites arguing about the headlines, near the Times Building Union Square in a high hat . . Sign in a West 49th Street barber shop featuring a sun-lamp treatment: "We'll Tan Your Hide for 50 Cents." Broadway Ticker-Tape: MGM will exploit "Comrade X" this way: "It's funnier than Ninotchka and easier to pronounce!" Are Sam Bar ken (the prop, of Miami Beach's big-time big-time 5 o'Clock Club) and Barbara MacLean secretly sealed? . . . The S. Carmels have separate tepees. He's a noted attorney. She's the "legs" in the Real Silk adverts . . They are saying Miriam Hopkins' next play: "Battle of the Angels" is the risgayest yet . . It's a girl for the Richard Snyders of the Mirror Mir-ror One of the biggest industrialists indus-trialists in the nation (whose initials are B D.) has just bet a small mint that the U. S. will be in a war within 60 days The Mexican president is expected to visit the White House in Feb. New Yorchids: Bob Grant's crew toying with the rhythms at the Savoy-Plaza . Benny Goodman's torridisc of "Benny Rides Again," a Columbia platter . Connie Bos-well's Bos-well's double-talk warbling of "Stra-va-na-da" via the Bing Crosby program pro-gram Douglas Williams' new book: "The New Contemptibles." The first book published by Bren-tano's Bren-tano's in ten years . Warden Lawes' thrilling book: "Meet the Murderer" (Harper's) Coca Cola's new radio show via CBSun-day CBSun-day . . I' the KostelanuUI |