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Show By L. L. STEVENSON Gotham Glimpses: An out-of-town lieutenant in a subway train, asking a fellow passenger at which station to get off for Governors Island . . . and a gang of boys with bundles under their arms, shouting, "Just follow us, mister. That's where we get off." . . . James Melton discussing dis-cussing problems with his booking o(.r,t. . They're not talking about group' of RAFliers m a Broadway ice-creamery . . . Men with either a broiler or a bag of charcoal common com-mon sights these days . . . Now that picnics are out in the East, back- p yard steak broiling has become per- . j ular out in the suburbs ... A. Robins, the clown who in "Top- Notchers" seemingly pulls thou- T sands of bananas from his capacious pockets, looking quite lim as he turns into Shubert Alley . . Peter Kalischer, with a dog oi. a leash, accompanying his bride, Julia Pear- i down to the Lyceum theater where she stars in one of last season's six hits, "Junior Miss." Short Stories: Phillips Lord tells of the radio magnate who ordered his assistant to hire a well-known writer to script a new program . . . "Don't you think he's a little too caustic?" objected the assistant . . . "Do I care how much he costs?" concerts merely trying to dig up the whereabouts of some old electric cars . . . Gertrude Lawrence mak- ing the rounds of the canteens and dancing with all the boys in uniform uni-form . . . Greta Garbo doing the town with a different man each night . . and this time not avoiding the autograph hounds ... In Rockefeller Rocke-feller Center, a flag flying for each of the United Nations . . . and on the staff of each, the name of the country for which the emblem stands . . . Which is a help, but it does seem a bit unnecessary to label la-bel the flag of the United States. So many khaki-colored cars about the town that it looks as if the army had taken over New York . . . and the way the boys drive and behave makes the natives want to give the town to them ... The big city seems to bring out their best manners man-ners ... A group of debs collaring collar-ing a bewildered sailor and leading him into the Cub Room of the Stork where Sherman Billingsley plays host . . . Herbert Hoover, former President of the United States, and an army colonel ignoring a waiter nnd flnishine a long discussion be- queried the magnate . . . "Get him." . . . Joan Edwards tells of the film magnate who handed back to an author a script without even having glanced at the contents . . . "Your title, 'The Optimist' is no good," he complained . . . "You and I know what it means, but do you think for a minute the public's gonna know he's, an eye doctor?" This & That: Charles Martin claims he knows a gambler who ii so crooked that even when he tosses in his sleep he cheats himself . . . Then there was that bridge player who divorced his wife because she had a one-trick mind . . . Linda Ware can't resist sending singing telegrams to any party she attends she thinks the messengers are cute . . . Freddy Martin carries a copy of Shakespeare in his pocket ... He knows the Bard of Avon as well as Gene Tunney does. - John Hoysradt comments that family trees are like all other trees the smallest twigs cause the most rustling ... Hi Brown holds that every office needs either one homely stenographer or a dictionary . . . Ed Byron tells about a fellow who was shell-shocked from eating peanuts pea-nuts in bed . . . Horace Heidt avers that most of the fire in many a girl's eye is quenched by the water wa-ter on her brain . . . Patty Andrews An-drews writes that things are so tough in one studio in Hollywood that the producer is laying off his own relatives. fore placing their dinner order at the Mayan . . . George Jean Nathan Na-than and Julie Haydcn toasting each other at Leone's before the theater hour . . . Fred Allen enjoying a glass of "white champagne" milk to you at the Olney Inn . . . and near by, Madeleine Carroll lunching 1 with two heavy-set gents neither one as pretty as Stirling Haydcn. Orchestra leader Ray Block the center of attention as he drives down Fifth avenue in an antique electric auyocafrofhil.Balhostingy |