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Show V l hi "i" ' ' L atetvj I mi: ni-:w YORK. SC'r.NK: I Memos of MiilniR-liior: Click J dr April will "exclusively" report Vi that Russia will shelve Hitler for Churchill . . . Oh. Mr. Secretary u( the Navy Frank Knox! Have a n,w word: Nnvyntion or Navya-tor Navya-tor . Jnmes McKinley Bryant twho keeps company with seven gals all at once) Anally explains things "How do you manage to keep so many women interested? Don't veu get tired now and then?" he was asked . . . "Yes, I do." he said y3ndly, "but what else is there but Love? It keeps you alive young and foolish." Broadway Ticker-Tape: Quent Reynolds' affectionate description of Their Majesties to the boys over at the Foreign Press Ass'n: "To the people they are simply George and Betty Windsor" . . . The networks are discouraging the repetition repe-tition of "Jeanie with t.l.b.h." It's about time . . . The feud between Lucius Beebe and Ben Hecht (over well-dressed dudes) has the mid-towners mid-towners a-ga-gog. The controversy has rocked New York like nothing since laced shoes came in. Willkie, in supporting FER's for- eign policy, has been practically excommunicated by the G.O.P. for putting the Republic ahead of the Republicans . . . Willkie' s support of the President surprised many of his hackers, who find it hard to un- derstand how a man would rather be an American than a politician When a few New Yorkers are shot in the streets by gangsters it occasions universal indignation . . . But thousands of people are killed by dictator-gangsters in the streets of England, and you find many Americans Amer-icans with a so-what attitude about that . . . FDR's physician reports that his health is the best it's been i in years ... So is America's! Faces About Town: James J. Walker and George Jessel, twin t ' toastmasters at the dinner for "Jim-; "Jim-; my" both in excellent form. And ; the way the ex-Mayor parried di- vorce reports, to wit: "Life would be very dull if Jessel and I didn't marry someone every once in 1(j awhile" . . . Mrs. F.D R., Jr., at a iy Copacabana ringside with her jg pumps comfortably kicked off and ut munching on an apple . . . Ger trude Lawrence, a bundle of talent from Britain . . . Winthrop Rocke-feller. Rocke-feller. The lowdown on why he en-T en-T listed as a buck private: He has a I tremendous youth plan in the mak- r ing. To keep finger-pointers from saying: "He was rich so he got a good job during the war!" he enlisted. enlist-ed. He could have had a big Gov't "1 job he's an oil expert. J Orchestra Pilot Sammy Kaye alleges al-leges he overheard this repartee-hee in Lindy's the other midnight. Two nJ Broadwise-guys were mangling a m7. herring in contemplative silence ie when one suddenly started dreaming out loud . . . "Boy," he mused, "I - wish I were at Hialeah where it's nice and warm. We'd play the races and plunk some dough down on an )"1 8-to-l shot. The nag would win and we'd bet the winnings on a 6-to-l i? to win. Then for the third race, e we'd take the winnings and bet on J a nag running at 4-to-l. And then ry we'd" a- "Justaminute," interrupted his buddy, "I think we oughta skip the third race I don't like that horse to at aU." si o- I NOTES OF A NEW YORKER: 'q", I Man About Town: The Book of I the Month Club has selected "Blood, . Sweat and , Tears" (Churchill's speeches) for April . . . Petain of one Vichy sent tte Warren G- PershinSs 5 a wire of Congrats on their recent Blessed Event . . . The femme edi- tors of two smart fashion mags are 'JTt sizzling at Moss Hart for his show, f"" "Lady in the Dark" . . . Dorothy A Thompson, as hinted here long ago, 2 will be divorced by the Herald Trib- et Jj une as of March 16. Her new syn- f i dicate may land her in Post on ra 17th . . C. Vanderbilt Jr. just ent Lindbergh an umbrella with a rattlesnake wooden handle . . . From TZa evi(1euce in the hands of Federal men, Princess Hohenlohe will be asked if it isn't true that the proper-always proper-always confiscated from her was first token from Max Reinhardt because he was Jewish. ?ularity A fellow who knew the late F . ''world- Sco Fitzgerald in Hollywood recalls iy must a chat with him. "I have no talent," ;videnc confessed the novelist, "it took me . public ten years to discover that I didn't $c have any" aloe.of 'Well," said the man, "why didn t dftions5 you Quit writing then?" n word "I couldn't," Scott said, "I was ;$"p;h 100 famous by that time." "disorder relief o Committees first step toW tie alter the expected renewal by Con- uharti"- 8ress will be to compare the Bund setter on- and Communist lists against the ?TmeW- ,llen registration and conscription 'ed. "sts . . . Ask some of the broad- kTdncy ' casng company biggies-they'll tell :ing 0u that they know of German in? Pffi- fukas" and Nazi pilots actually in , nervous, Mexico! . . . That was some scene M j on cloakroom of the House of d-'de tZ p' wen Davis of Memphis threat- favorably of nr ng- Geyer of Los Angeles. Geyer 'lTli 3ntS 10 ablish the Pn t3X' |
