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Show ue refltuin . . Bniha Castagni, the opera singer, talking Italian, Mrs. Otto Preminger conversing in Viennese, Genevieve Tabouis murmuring mur-muring French and Brazilian Minister Min-ister Alberto speaking Portuguese at Theodore's . . , The Hickory House resembling a fun house when comics com-ics Jolson, Jessel and Johnson stealthily give Chic Olson a hot foot . . . Katherine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic getting their first taste 'of honest-to-goodness swing as Max-ine Max-ine Sullivan does it at the Ruban Bleu . . . Roger Stearns being introduced in-troduced to the Archdukes Otto and Franz Josef of Austria as the "Maha-Roger "Maha-Roger of 1-2-3" by Monty Woolley Regal Jive: Dr. Frank Black and William L. Shirer were engaged in a serious discussion of unusual orchestra or-chestra combinations in a private dining room at the 21 Club. After some modern instances had been cited, Dr. Black dug into the past and named as a most logical entry in that category an organization known as the "Royal Noise," which flourished with King Henry VIII as honorary baton wielder. After listening lis-tening to the instrumental line-up, Shirer was quick to vote "Aye." There were 14 trumpets, 10 trombones, trom-bones, four drums, four tambourines, tambour-ines, three rebecs, three viols and one bagpipe. 51 1 By L. L. STEVENSON People and Places: Sammy Kaye 'ill Lindy's talking to Margie Hart "swing and sway." . . . Comic ;Herb Shriner leaning against a drugstore drug-store window at Fiftieth street sol-mnly sol-mnly reading news about fighting ,in the Solomons . . . Joan Vitez, "Gang Buster" actress, reading a chiller script while she sips a choco. late ice cream soda in a Rocke- 1 feller Center drugstore . . . Ralph Edwards getting out of a cab on South street to sight-see the Fulton .fish market ... . Sixteen-year-old kids carrying instrument cases into rehearsal studios in the Times Square sector . . . New trend in orchestra circles either too young or too old for the draft . . . Herbert Hoover walking along Madison avenue be- 'tween Fifty-first and Fifty-second streets . . . and no one recognizing the ex-President . . . The "Ohs" land "Ohs" of secretaries and office girls as Ralph Bellamy hurries along Fifth avenue. One on Him: Johnny Burke, doughboy dough-boy comic, tells the dimout yarn about the coal delivery man who was taking a consignment of the precious fuel to a six-flight walk-up. With the illumination completely banished, he couldn't see a thing as he climbed the long stairs under the heaviest burden he could recall in all the years of his strenuous occupation. occu-pation. On the fifth floor, in exasperation, ex-asperation, he looked over his shoulder shoul-der at his cargo. It wasn't a load of coal he was toting it was his horse. Monickers and Menus: Jack Haley Ha-ley lunching at a window table in the English Grill as his son skates with Maxine Marx, daughter of Chi-co Chi-co Marx, on the adjoining Rockefeller Rocke-feller Plaza ice rink . . . Lieut. Gen. Hugh Drum leaving the Plaza's Persian Room . . . Declining the doorman's offer to call a taxi, he turns up his collar against the biting bit-ing wind and steps into an undignified undigni-fied but jaunty jeep . . . "Rifl singer" Mae Barnes at Cerutti's explaining ex-plaining to Frederic March what a "riff singer" really is: "It's a singer who, when she makes a mistake, just riffs right along over the Out of the Night: Broadway's newest new-est "character" is an off-shoot of Broadway Rose. She calls herself "Tomorrow" and promptly on the stroke of midnight appears in front of the Rivoli theater apparently t coming from nowhere. She is a somewhat frowsy blonde and her attire is a blouse and slacks. Seemingly, Seem-ingly, she seems to love to walk in the rain without an umbrella. No matter what question she's asked, her inevitable answer is "Tomorrow." "Tomor-row." Incidentally, Broadway Rose, who after two prison sentences isn't as conspicuous as she used to be along the Gay Gray Way, is said to be about to have her name copyrighted copy-righted just in case someone wants her to endorse something. Here and There: Three bogeymen, bogey-men, Peter Lorre, John Emery and Joseph Schildkraut, almost having the wits scared out of them by Da--Yir Cobles' gigantic St. Bernard at |