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Show Talk abeut different ancles: Julie flaydon, the actress, is doing a book, which she illustrates as well. It's (bout ber dog. The theme: One day (n Its life , . . She studied Its every move and emotion for a day and night The title: "Every Dog Has Its Day" . . . The recent tribute to Eddie Cantor (by over 1,500 admirers) ad-mirers) was the first sincere testimonial testi-monial In long spell on Broadway ... It commemorated his 35th ann'y In show business. Flowers ta the living . . . Joan Crawford and her husband, P. Terry, are doing a Hayworth - Welles. Wearing suits made from the fame material. Blgtown Vignette: On the George Washington bridge, the other Sunday afternoon, flocks of young girls in their colorful summer dresses were decorating the scene , . . Far below was a grey war-like freighter at anchor . . . The sailors on guard by the stern gun were like little toys. ' They were waving to the girls . . . They shouted and called back and forth but no one could hear what they were saying . . . The wind was blowing and the distance was too much , . . Then a sailor came on deck ... He had a trumpet ... And pointing to the distant span be played some beautiful horn music ... He must have been a professional profes-sional in civilian life . . . One of his renditions was: "Come to Me, My Melancholy Baby" ... He looked like a little toy on the deck of the ' ship . .His trumpet looked like a toy, too . . . His music came up through the air, thin and clear, like music from a toy horn . . . And-down And-down the Hudson you could see the bay. and the open sea . . . Where the freighter would sail soon for the fighting : . . The trumpeter really "sent" the girls . . . There sure was a lot of youthful yearning on the breeze. We Hadn't Heard It Before: About the fat whale and the skinny whale. The fat whale said: "My goodness, you're thlnl "What's wrong with you?" Replied the skinny whale: "I've been having bad' luck, been in bad waters and no food." 'Tell you what" said the fat whale, "why not swim to the En'g- lish - channel? The Allies -are exploding ex-ploding a lot of Nazis Into the air there." So the skinny whale swam and swam, and six weeks later, skinnier than ever, swam back to his fat friend. . "Well," purled Fatso, "why didn't you do as I told' you?" ' "I did," said' the skinny whale, "but when those Nazis came down into the water they all had marks on their chests saying they were supermen and I just couldn't swallow swal-low that baloney!" Hitler was never either ,a house-painter house-painter or a paper-hanger. (He was f very poor artist who at one time used to put his paintings in an oven to "antique" them.) ... He has had a longer life than Napoleon (52) ,and Alexander the Great (32), but Caesar died at 56 and Genghis Khan at 65 . . . Although Adolf's father was named Schicklgruber, der rat who became der fuehrer was never called that . . . Hitler's father was a ne'er-do-well, who died in the belief his son was a zero ... The old fnan wed three times. At 27 he married a woman 41; at 48 he married a girl 25 . . . At the end of World War I Adolf trimmed his von ,Hindenburg-type mustache to the ridiculous lip-patch he wears today." Himmler ia the only one to get away with imitating der fuehrer'! mustache, and even that is an un- reasonable whackslmlle . . . Robert Ley, creator of the German labor front, quaffs a pint of brandy before breakfast . ; '. Fritz von Papen became be-came military attache to Washington Washing-ton orf the strength of his wife's money. He twice failecj the entrance exams to the War academy, yet he wore the Insignia off the General Staff . . . Von Ribbentrop got rid of Koerster and von Hoescb (German ambassadors to France and England Eng-land respectively) with shots in the arm which produced air embolus. Goebbels attended six universities universi-ties and entered Heidelberg on the strength of a scholarship from a Jewish professor named Gundolf ... When Hitler spent his early days In a Viennese flophouse, the only man who befriended and helped him was a Jew named Neumann . . Nazi street fighting tactics originated at the world premiere of "All Quiet on the Western Front," the most paci-flstic paci-flstic of all German pictures. The Hitler gang objected to Remarque's . theories. " ! Goering dotes on caviar, regard- ! less of his aversion to other things ' Russian (such as the Red army), I and gobbles It by the spoonful . . Mussolini never liked him because his Outthrust chin and affected swag- ' ger were too much like Finito's ... When he has time for it Goering , goes hunting' on his estate for animals ani-mals that are delivered tq his homes regularly .-. . Speaking of animals: His Brownshirt gorillas, In the early days, wore rings which held two-sharp two-sharp blades conveniently released, by aspring. , |