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Show HIS P ,Milfr The Headliners: Greta Garbo lifting lift-ing the brows of the diners in a midtown Hungarian restaurant by j sprinkling a thick layer of sugar on each dish even the soup and vege-I vege-I tables . . .. Recent landholders in the Persian Room: Gov. Bricker i and his wife . . . Talu Bankhead j kidded by the clowns in Club 18 with I their "man-overboard" routine . . . Poon Lim, the Chinese seaman (at Ripley's broadcast), sobbing while the radio actors dramatize his story on a raft at sea 133 days a record rec-ord . . . Turhan Bey (La Hepburn's Hep-burn's reported romance) who has been listed as -a Turk. He's from Vienna . . . Choo-Choo Johnson, whose name is Violet Lynch . . . Homer Capehart, the popular radio-phonograph radio-phonograph maker, who may be a candidate for the U. S. Senate from Ind . . . Bette Davis and her mater incognito at a downtown delly for hot pastrami sandwiches and celery tonic. Midtown Vignette: Earl Carpenter's Carpen-ter's crew was playing another benefit bene-fit show on which a Hollywood star appeared . . . Carpenter's music (to bring him on) was a zippy tem-po'd tem-po'd "Who" . . . the actor hammed it all over the place (stayed on for what seemed forever) and laid an omelet . . . H. G. Gardiner, the drummer, received a note from one of the sax tooters. It read: "We played him on with 'Who.' Why not take him off with 'Why'?" A soldier (carrying an enormous laundry bag) walked into Tiffany's. He received no attention whatever all assumed he was in the wrong place. He looked worn, his clothes didn't fit too well, an unimpressive fellow ... He was shunted to the small-priced dep't, where he had difficulty convincing the salesman that he wished to buy something "more expensive" ... He finally selected a bracelet at $5,000 and wrote out a check . . . The clerk was sorry he'd have to send the check to the bank "for certification" . . . Then he looked at the signature signa-ture . . . Carl Laemmle Jr. who had suddenly recalled his sister's birthday! Drama Report: A new play titled "Decision" by E. Chodorov has been enjoying a run in the East. The story relates to an ostrich-like U. S. senator and the editor of his newspaper news-paper who stir up disunity, prejudice prej-udice and terrorize an American town, particularly a wounded American Amer-ican soldier just returned from Sicily. The soldier's father, a teacher, teach-er, heads a citizens' group which threatens to bring charges of criminal crim-inal treason against the editor and senator . . . The Wilmington (Del.) News critic called it "exciting drama, tense and full of dramatic I moments. You leave the theater ! feeling frustrated and angry; you cannot be unmoved . . . Representative Representa-tive citizens endeavor to attack the subversive forces which are causing what is virtually a civil war on the home front. Winchell himself might have written the play; it is so much his theme, this faith in the American Amer-ican who will force treachery from under its cover." The German Consul in Naples, Italy, had a list of American actors ac-tors who appeared in pictures at- j tacking the Nazis. Included in the list (confiscated by our troops) were Carole Landis, Myrna Loy, Norma Shearer, James Stewart, Henry Ar- ' metta, Ben Bernie, Joe E. Brown I and many other prominents . . . Arthur Clifford Read (accused by the FBI of being a Jap agent) i threatened to go AWOL from Camp Croft if his superiors refused him a furlough ... He got it and it proved to be his big boner. He went to N. Y. where he was nabbed. Quotation marksmanship: The Oskaloosa Tribune: Buyers once did business over the counter. Now they do it over the coiling . . . Ladies Home Journal: No one is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as horrible examples . . . Fletcher Henderson: Middle age is that time In life when you'd rather not have a good time than recover from it . . . Lulu Bates: Argentina's Argen-tina's earthquake just goes to prove again what can happen when you argue with Winchell . . . M. Lincoln Schuster: Warning to tyrants and dictators: Americans are famous for their senso of humor, but they cannot can-not take a yoke . . . Geo. Snn-taynna: Snn-taynna: A fanatic Is a man who redoubles his efforts after he has lost sight of his objectives . . ..D. Green: The stork brought Frankie a little Son-atra. Manhattan Muruls: The 51!nd Street sandwich shop sign: "Breakfast "Break-fast served until 5 p. ni." . . . The underground passageway for the models at 217 Park Avenue (on route I to the photog studios at A'M Lexington, Lexing-ton, In the adjoining liUigl it Is nick, named: "Glamour Gulch" . . The sidewalk chalking: "This Is l.ook-lW'fnro-You 1 .cap year!" . . . The lltllo collar restaurant U!u Savola' lit nil Mulberry St., bark of Crlm-inal Crlm-inal Courts HMg. Kuril scalloplnl for only Bile I The solllsh sot hooo "Wliioholl doesn't hoar of It." |