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Show 111! Notes of a City Slicker: When Alexander Woollcott graduated gradu-ated from Hamilton College he never nev-er stopped talking about his alma mater. So when the dramatic critic passed on. It was natural that his ashes be interred at Hamilton College Col-lege Cemetery with a few intimate friends and associates attending the services ... It rained hard for a whole day and night before the urn containing his ashes was lowered into the ground . . . However, someone some-one miscalculated . . . The ribbons by which the urn was lowered proved two feet short . . . And so the urn had to be dropped (into the hole partly filled with mud and water) wa-ter) and when it fell all the mourners mourn-ers standing around the grave were splashed. "Just like Alec!" said a bespattered bespat-tered pal. "To the last a critic! " Katina Paxinou, one of the stars In "For Whom the Bell Tolls," is one of the world's bitterest Nazi-Fascist Nazi-Fascist fighters. Katina learned how to hate them before she left her native na-tive Greece. Ton can't get a work of art out of Italy if you are not an Italian citizen, citi-zen, according to Billy Rose, an art collector himself .... A pal of his In Italy not long ago offered $100,000 for a Rembrandt and was informed that he could take it with him by having a likeness of Mussolini painted paint-ed over it . . . The paint, it was explained, could easily be washed off without damaging the Rembrandt . . . "If they see you with a picture pic-ture of II Duce," said the dealer, "they will not stop you." And so the art lover paid the $100,008 and had no trftuble bringing bring-ing the picture into the United States . . . Where he easily washed away the painting of Mussolini to discover it was an oil of Mussolini I We asked a movie director how some of them acquired great reputations repu-tations ... He offered this example exam-ple ... A famous character actor, in one of his early films, was doing a desert scene in which he was to portray a man dying of thirst . . . The director tried to get the actor to register the proper emotion, but the terrible ham only managed to look farcical . . . Finally, after repeated failure, the director gave up ... To get the Idea across, however, he decided to photograph the actor's feet throughout the scene showing him staggering along the desert dropping one of his possessions posses-sions after the other: First he dropped his pack, then his gun, and finally his canteen . . . The critics voted that scene the outstanding one in the film! Hecklers of the administration are having a field day with this one ... In Sicily, they'd have you believe, be-lieve, a peasant invited a comrade to his home for a feast . . . After two bowls of soup, double offerings of entree and a three-inch American sirloin steak plus several ears of Indiana corn on the cob (loaded with Maryland butter), Idaho potatoes (with more butter) and Georgia watermelon wa-termelon and oodles of New York cream for their delicious Yankee Doodle coffee, the guest beamed his appreciation. "Not yet!" interrupted the host "Now comes dessert!" "What kinda dessert? How can we eat any more?" "Now comes Tootsie Rolls!" said the host. "Tootsie Rolls?" asked the guest. "What's Tootsie Rolls?" "Who knows?" shrugged the host "Lend-Lease!" The Magazines: Liberty scoops the field with a report alleging that New York school children find their lessons so exciting they hate going home when the bell rings ... I don't believe it . . . Newsweek states that the 4th year of the war produced only one great Allied general gen-eral Sir Harold Alexander . . . Zatso? How about Gen. Eisenhower, who may be FDR's running mate in the 1944 Presidential race? . . . Sumner Welles' typewriter ran away from him, judging by his text in Coronet. Diplomatic jobs, he noted, are non-political and bring success if worked at hard enough . . . Would he say that now? ... In the SEP there is a nice, warm tale oi the newspaper men covering the South Pacific. The biggest peril oi the job, warns the author, is capital "I" poisoning . . . H. Brubaker'i best item in his New Yorker kidding: kid-ding: "The housing crisis in Washington Wash-ington is evidently worse than ever. Drew Pearson has had to move intc the doghouse." Lieut. Col. Elliott Roosevelt, en Joying a well-deserved furlough in the Stork Club the other night, was being congratulated by intimates. "You are thinner In the face," said a newspaper man, and ther pointing to his ribbons, added, "bn a lot heavier across the chest." "The only decoration that reallj counts," was the reply, "is the Pur pie Heart Medal, which I wish : had!" The Purple Heart is awarded onl i to the wounded . . . Elliott's advec j tures cost him 43 pounds- |