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Show I VI ("Biro?' S3 fa 1 ia Man About Town: The Big Parade: General Hap Arnold in the Stork "Cub" section lots skinnier than his familiar fotos. "Thanks for getting that war over with!" said a handshaker. . . . Maj. W. Rockefeller, who also went to war The Hard Way, is back SO lbs. heftier. He is one of The Lifted Pinky Set's best advertisements. . . . Peggy Joyce (her bridegroom is detained on the Coast) escorted by millionaires who failed to win her be-jewelled hand. . . . Estelle Taylor Inspecting a Jap war bond, which a G.I. purchased in Tokyo for one stale U. S. ciggie. . . . Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo (The Last Man Off Bataan) and his wife and 4 boys entering the Waldorf. Mrs. Romulo was a Jap captive until rescued res-cued by one of her sons. . . . D. Runyon, the Broadway Bard, and his 2nd favorite writer greeting 1946 and solemnly studying the celebrants cele-brants as they are carried or thrown out. Show Business Vignette: Eddie Cantor was in Boston supervising "Nellie Bly," a new show. Having a few hours td spare he phoned nearby Chelsea Naval Hospital and volunteered to give the boys an impromptu song-and-dance. . . . The hospital was tickled so many of the invalids were well enough to visit their kin or friends that the ones who stayed behind were lonely and depressed. . . . Cantor brought along Thelma Carpenter, Leonard Sues and Bea Walker. . . . After entertaining the vets they went to the mental ward. . . . There one weary soldier called to Eddie, "You're swell, Al!" . . . The star realized the ill veteran thought Cantor Can-tor was Jolson. Eddie did not correct cor-rect him even when the lad requested: re-quested: " 'April Showers,' Al" . . . Cantor rendered "April Showers," Jolson's theme song, and the Jolson fan was the last to stop applauding. Portrait of a Friend: When things don't come out right he comes right in. . . . When none of your dreams come true he is. . . . He never looks for your money except when you've lost it. . . . He never gets in your way except to clear it for you. . . . Nothing is more important im-portant to him than making you important. im-portant. ... He is in your corner when you're cornered. ... He turns up when you get turn-downs. . . . All he wants in return for his helping hand is your handshake. ... He never insists on seeing you except when nobody else wants to. . . . He raps your critics when they're wrong and takes the rap for you when they're right. . . . The only way he sponges off you is to absorb some of your troubles so you can have strength left to fight the heels. . . . When you're taking bows he bows out. . . . You can do anything you want with his friendship except ex-cept buy it. . . . Or sell it. . . . He makes you realize that having a real friend is like having an extra life. . . . All he asks of your friendship friend-ship is the privilege of deserving it. When Capt. Harold Stassen witnessed wit-nessed the big hit, "State of the Union," he told the authors that when politicians used to tell him how many votes they could deliver, he would invariably say: "How can you deliver the votes of a free people?" peo-ple?" . . . The collabbers have found room for it in the show with a punchy snapper. . . . This is how it goes in the 3rd Act. .... Spike (the newspaperman-campaign manager) man-ager) tells Mary (the wife of the Republican hope): "The politicians coming to dinner tonight all can deliver the votes." . . . Mary says: "How can you deliver the votes 6f a free people?" . . . Spike: "Don't kid yourself, Mary. Lazy people, ignorant ig-norant people and prejudiced people peo-ple are not free." Soldier from Miami: This is the third time these railroads have done this to me. . . . They sell you a ticket to New York, and without warning make you get out at Philadelphia Phila-delphia They shove you into a hurriedly made-up coach train and if there is a seat available you get it. i . . One of these days someone will work up a lot of lawsuits law-suits regarding this nuisance then maybe it'll stop. . . . What am I griping about. ... I wasn't in any wreck which the Miami-N. ,Y. trains seem to be going in for a lot lately. . . . Aw, the hell with it. Czar Petrillo's medics have ordered or-dered him to slow down or risk the penalty of his serious internal disorder. dis-order. . . . Norman Corwin, the radio ra-dio author, is ill. . . . The persistent persist-ent "Yankee" weather in Miami Beach packed the choo-choos northbound. north-bound. Miami's boss Curry has warned visitors (swank and otherwise) that they risk being collared in the raids on gaming spots. That's going to scare them into laughing spasms, dear boy. ... A resolution is being drawn by the Newspaper Guild "barring" Fiorello from colyuming unless he apologizes for past insults to newsmen. That'll be the day! .... The new Super-Chief Diesel now being made will do 150 miles per hour. . . . Ezra Pound, who preached for Mussolini, has been sent to the booby hatch. |
