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Show Addenda: Meyer Davis Glamour orchestra, composed of college lads, was disbanded before it played its first date . . . Davis forgot those five little letters that could have spelled ruin for his band: DRAFT . . . Songwriter Irving Caesar heard Nina Tarasova sing at the Casino Russe, then rushed home and wrote a special number for her . . . The last special song he wrote was for his pal, Rudy Vallee . . . Wendell 'Willkie at the Cafe Louis XIV ordered or-dered lamb with a side dish of spinach, spin-ach, gluten bread and black coffee, no butter, potatoes or dessert . . . He's on a diet ... At Barney Gallant's Gal-lant's anniversary party one of best-dressed-man Peter Arno's old suits was hung on the bar to be awarded award-ed to the worst dressed man in the room ... It was won and turned down by William Saroyan who also won and turned down the Pulitzer 1 prize. Observations: Band Leader Char-: Char-: lie Spivak points out that one dif- ference between a New Yorker and j an out-of-towner is that the out-of-, towner isn't even peeved when he , misses a transcontinental train but i the New Yorker burns up when he misses one section of a revolving door . . . Don Voorhees reports a I switch. A grill at Rockville Center, ! L. I., announces in a huge sign I across the front: "Under old man- agement" . . . Ezra Stone knows a ' girl so dumb she thinks a conscript is a radio play written by a man in prison . . . Joe Reichman, band leader, thinks it's odd because bounders are sure to be found in the best circles. More: Phil Spitalny insists that a magazine reader must feel like a child sometimes. All the advertisers advertis-ers seem so anxious about his health . . . Hedda Hopper asserts that woman's independence from her husband began when she stopped wearing dresses with 24 buttons down the back . . . Harry Salter notes that in this country, just like, any other, the unread breed the Red . . . Tommy Dorsey suggests that the man who tried his hand at something and failed might try using his head for a change . . . Billy Mills asserts that fellows who claim golf is pie for them are always al-ways slicing. Short Story: George Tapps tells of the refugee who applied for citizenship citi-zenship in the U. S. A. . . . The examiner asked, "What is the difference dif-ference between our President and a king in Europe?" The refugee replied: "Simple the President's got a steady job." (Bell Syndicate WNU Service.) By L. L. STEVENSON Seen About New York: Keenan Wynn flashing under the George Washington bridge in a speed boat ... As a kid he once splashed over the same course in a wig doubling for Joan Crawford in a dangerous movie stunt . . . Forty-second street panhandlers adjusting their beggings beg-gings to warmer weather . . . They do much better in winter when a shiver seems pitiful . . . Kids on roller skates hanging to the tailboards tail-boards of trucks, a dangerous sport but one which nobody seems able to stop . . . Alice Frost, radio actress, stopping to listen to an organ grinder's grind-er's concert ... A drunk approaching approach-ing whiskered Monty Woolley in a popular bar and asking, "Pardon me, Mr. Whiteside, do you wear your beard inside or outside the martini?" . . . Vicki Vola, a fearless police aid in "Mr. District Attorney," hopping atop a table at the sight of a mouse. This and That: John Kieran, sports columnist of the New York Times and "Information Please" expert, will be the "Fall Guy" at the meeting of the Circus Saints and Sinners . . . AJ last I've found out what those WPA' workers have been doing on West Twenty-fourth street all these months. They're narrowing the sidewalk and widening widen-ing the street . . . After being out of the harness for many years, Harry Delmar, who produced "Del-mar's "Del-mar's Revels" in the mid twenties, is planning a comeback. He has a musical comedy, "Full Speed Ahead," on the fire and has signed Billy Perry, concert and radio tenor, as the lead ... In old days, a creek, which emptied into the Hudson Hud-son river, ran across town about where Twenty-seventh street is now . . . Washington Irving was renowned re-nowned as a practical joker . . . But he never gave anyone the hotfoot hot-foot ' ' |