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Show (l 1 L , . 1 THE VILLAGE NEWS-PRESS fProp. and Editor, W. Winchell) Katie Hepburn of these parts expects ex-pects her new gentleman friend, who not long back stopped his car on a lonely road (at midnight, near Santa Barbara, out California way) and on bended knee asked Kate to be his'n . . . His name is Garson Ka-nin, Ka-nin, who directed many good movies, mov-ies, such as "The Great Man Votes" and "A Man to Remember." 'Tenny-rate, 'Tenny-rate, the young man is now flying East to ask Katie's kinfolk for her hand in holy matrimony. Willkie's new Main Street headquarters head-quarters are in Frank Campbell's deserted funeral parlors at Sixty-sixth Sixty-sixth street. When ye ed laughed, fit to kill, a Willkie rooter observed, "Wal, it's the first time anything alive was there!" Ex-Gov. AI Smith is wearing a Willkie tie . . . G. J. Nathan,- after 10 years, will do drama criticism again for the American Mercury. Besides his chores for Esquire and Liberty. Must be payin' a mighty big income tax. Heard a good one last night over at George Kelly's Tavern. Seems they all were talking about the failure fail-ure of a theatrical man, who lost all his millions that he made producing produc-ing attractions. "He was a bad egg, but nobody seemed to think so so long as he had money," said George. "Naturally," replied Charlie Ad-ler, Ad-ler, who is quite a philosopher, "like most bad eggs he was all right until he was broke." Joe DiMaggio's admirers have nicknamed him Bucktooth McGee . . . Talk about town that Joe Kennedy, Ken-nedy, our ambassador, may be coming com-ing home in about two weeks. Madeleine Carroll is a pretty sad young lady these days. Her maw's letters tell of the terrible air raids over her house near Dover, and Madeleine hasn't heard from her gentleman friend in a long time, too. The reports about a new fiance are poppycock. Ye ed recalls that our state dep't a few weeks ago made it clear that any foreign diplomat in the U. S. (who interferes with our internal affairs) af-fairs) will be considered persona non grata. Well, Newsweek reports that the N. Y. Italian Consul Vecchiotti is taking a very active part in our Pres. campaign. How about that, Mr. Hull? New Yorkers Are Talking About: Fay Wray's breathless romance with Clifford Odets . . . The fact that Herbert Hoover in 1928 said he was ready to support Coolidge for a third term! . . Raymond Paige's legitimate legiti-mate squawk: That the list of recordings re-cordings distributed by the Nat'l Comm. for Music Appreciation to "foster American culture by means of American recordings for American Ameri-can listeners" does not contain one American work! . The rumored Carol and Lupescu arrival soon via Clipper. The line's local offices got a message stating: "Completing royal reservations" . . . Dietrich's next flicker, "Seven Sinners," in which Marlegs will not only cover her glammer-gams in pants, but she will also shoot pool. Have a cigar, lady? They're Also Talking About: Mrs. H. Payne Whitney and that attentive sculptor . . . The separation of the David Eruces. She's Mellon's daughter. He allegedly took the London Red Cross post to forget . . . Walter O'Keefe's gag about Mary Pickford buying the Gen'l Motors and Ford exhibits to use as book-ends book-ends in her den. And the gag about O'Keefe hooking up with the G. O. P. "to get back on the air-waves!" Haw! They Do Say, Too: Parents magazine's mag-azine's annual award will go to Katherine F. Lenroot, chief of the U. S. Children's bureau. At the Ritz on the twenty-third. Mrs. F. D. R. got it last time . . . How Ralph Ingersoll's enemies are trying to get his backers to divorce him. Because Be-cause he is pro-F. D. R. . . Marshall Mar-shall Field III, his biggest backer, is a Rcpub, and will not desert him . ; . A. A. Knopf's regret about not carefully reading proofs on Warwick Deeping's novel, which contains three oflensive lines that may result in a terrific boycott by various groups. llow'll Bergdorf-Goodman explain that one? Henri Unterman's quiet arrival on the S. S. Iroquois two weeks ago. He's King Carol's biz adviser and advance rnan here? Sallies in Our Alley: Jerry Cooper thinks it is funny that whenever an actor goes out to Hollywood he knoeks vood but when he comes b:jck he knocks Hollywood . . . A bresiUiless stranger asked a col-yuinist col-yuinist where he could locate II;ir-nld II;ir-nld itoss, the New Yorker editor, l;i:.t night . . . "He's probably over ol J. h C.'s," obliged the colyumi.st , "liut how will I know him," I. aid the utrariger, "we've never met!" . . . "It's a cinch," wan the retort, "he always nits with hit; back to the check." |