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Show Man About Totcn NOTES TO A NEWSPAPERMAN: !The state department is actuaily to blame for the U. S. being overrun by Soviet agents. There's an immigra. tion law in this country which states that no Russian Communist or former for-mer Red can get a visa to enter here. But In 1933 a law was passtd admitting admit-ting any person on a visa that would further the commercial interests of the United States. Literally hundreds hun-dreds of "commercial Russian attaches" at-taches" gained entry here under this law. They came ostensibly for trade purposes but In reality are Russian GPU agents. NEW YORKERS ARE TALKING ABOUT: Goering's widow, Emmy, ex-actress. She was refused permission permis-sion to return to the German stage by U. S. authorities, so she will become be-come a Berlin night club "freak" attraction at-traction . . . The East Side shop which features hand-painted umbrellas umbrel-las from $lfO up . . . Henry Wallace's daughter, who (intimates report) is paying a high price for his follytics. She can't take the jibes, etc., and "is so ashamed." . . . Virginia Leigh, the deb, allegedly nursing a shattered heart over the youthful heir to a mint . . . The Hollywood starlet who side-stepped a scandal by suddenly divorcing her groom. Gov't agents are busy checking his dope purchases. In the Pentagon the other luncheon lunch-eon Gen. Toohey Spaatz was listening listen-ing to a group of air force execs discuss Finletter's "Survival to the Air Age." This "must" book for every American says the Russians Rus-sians will have the A-bomb by January 1, 1953. Spaatz, who resigned re-signed recently, sighed and mumbled: mum-bled: "That means four more years of fishing." BROADWAY DICTIONARY: Chump: The guy who picks up your check . . . Heel: The guy who expects ex-pects you to pick up your own . . . Etiquette! Not interrupting when someone's praising you . . . Rou: The guy who scores with the gals who snub you . . . Chivalry: Giving the wife credit for the flop you are . . . Charity: Forgiving anyone who. did you a favor . . . Chiseler: A guy who expects to get paid back. Memos of a Midnighter: Mar-lene Mar-lene Dietrich is amused when she reads about the gems she wears "coming from a mysterious admirer." admir-er." She bought every hunk herself . . . The lad who wrote the hitune, "Time Out for Tears," can have-himself have-himself a good cry even though his ditty is doing fine. The gal who inspired in-spired it just got married! . . . Violinist Louis Kaufman, whose fiddling fid-dling you've heard in the background of over 400 flickers, has shelved. H'wood for the concert halls . . . Some penny-arcades now sell Jel-lled-apples-on-the-stick at 30 cents the belly-ache. One of our pet yarns about Elsenhower Els-enhower concerns his contempt for yes-men. Ike once told one of them: "I want yon to figure out some things which are wrong with, this army camp. You make me uncomfortable un-comfortable by always agreeing with me. I feel that yon either don't say what you think or that you are as big a fool as I am!" New York Story: It happened December De-cember 29, 1947, at the gay Winter Ball in the Waldorf-Astoria . . . The crowd was having a grand time, dancing when a clumsy football player play-er accidentally kicked little Nancy-Councilman Nancy-Councilman . . . She's a Norfolk, Va., debeaut . . . When Nancy fainted some spectators thought she was. putting on an act . . . "What's-a-mat-er, kid?" a voice heckled. "Cancha take it?" . . . This is to report to the football player, et al, that Nancy's Nan-cy's leg was amputated right here in Our Town . . . Where she came to have a good time. The Intelligentsia: R. Ingersoll's "The Great Ones" is climbing into the best seller lists. Went from 22nd to 14th p'ace just like that . . . Patsy Ruth Miller is doing a play on anti-communism. anti-communism. She's the former film favorite . . . Laval'3 memwars are going begging . . . Allegedly "exposes" "ex-poses" Churchill, Chamberlain and other Allied diplomats with Laval white-wash . . . Newest mag to join the field is called "Glance." The editor is Edythe Farrell, who made a respectable lady out of the Police Gazette . . . "Caldwell Week" will celebrate Erskine Caldwell's near eight million sale of his 25-cent Penguin-Signet editions. . . . They brought him almost $100,000 royalties royal-ties in two years . . . What a last laugh . . . Margery Sharp's new novel, "The Foolish Gentlewoman," will be June Book-of-the-Mohth. Att'n J. Ilarrington, the column's boss on the Honolulu Advertiser: This is the very lowdown on why statehood for Hawaii is being stalled in Congress. While you probably would be one of the two new U. S. senators the second, certain people fear, would be a Japanese . . . Because, Be-cause, they add: "42 per cent of the voters in Hawaii are Japanese-Americans" Japanese-Americans" . . . Scch a reason! |