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Show m J . New York Heartbeat : j Big Town Small Talk: We finally found out where psychiatrists go for help. Dorothy Harpham (Bellevue ' psychiatrist) just finished an Arthur I Murray course. . . . Radio City's star thrush, Robert Marshall, was once a newspaperman himself. Asked why he switched professions, : he said: "I got so tired of meeting i so many uninteresting people at ' such an uninteresting salary" . . . The Riviera claims it is the only night spot in the world with fresh , air. . . . Mountbatten may wind up I being Britain's prime minister. He has gained terrific favpr as the result re-sult of his work in India. He will deny having political ambitions or views (which are Socialists-sort of an FDR liberal) because a navy man "isn't supposed to have any politics." Ella Logan overheard a couple cou-ple of Broadway producers. "What this show needs," said the first, "is a shot in the arm." "No," said the other. "What this show needs is a shot in the head." New Yorkers Are Talking About: Virginia Hill, who is constantly glommed by 10 government agents, who suspect she eventually will lead them to the slayers of Bugsy Siegel. . . . The Park avenue reducing specialist spe-cialist who weighs 280. . . . Frank Parker, the tennistar, preparing to retire because of "old age." He's 31. . . . The waiter at the Stork club .(for a dozen years) who saved $50,000 and leaves soon for his native Mexico Mex-ico to open a smart spot for visiting Yanks. He is Joe Arce, keeper of the Cub room rope. . . . The gangs of goils in Greenwich Village side streets who beat the tar out of sailors and others. (Hey, Lizzy, leggo!). The long and short skirt controversy: con-troversy: Skirts should be long enough to be decent and short enough to be interesting. The Late Watch: Despite the wail, over the British blockade on films, things can't be too tough in Movietown where one studio just paid 750 Gs for the Broadway hit, "Born Yesterday" . . . But Still They Wept Dept: Treasury department depart-ment figures show taxes from cinema cin-ema admissions at $34,972,435. Almost Al-most a million higher than the same month in 1946, a record year. So Where's that box office slump? Hmmmmm? . . . Former Secy, of State James Byrnes (counsel for the movie industry) has mobilized all of Hollywood (producers, directors, actors, et al) to fight the charges of the un-American committee. . . . Netv York Novelties: She was hat-chicken at one of those ob scure hideaways where everyone goes to show off. He caressed the fiddle in the joint. (And Our Little Lit-tle Doap between shows) . . . Then one night Mr. Genius hopped a cattle-boat to Australia . . . And the poor little hat-chick took sick and almost wasted away . . , You could tell she loved by the valises under her eyes . . . Then came a cable from Her favorite Heel. (Hey, that'd make a good title for a book, show or film; and don't steal it, you heel!) . . . "Need you at . once," said the cablegram. "Have my own night club, please, come?". . . So she made the 10,000-mile 10,000-mile trip . . . And now she's checking check-ing hats in Australia. Man About Town:The litree set hears that the New Yorker can be bought for one and a half mill. That the owner is anxious to peddle it, although it has made coin right along. . . . Walter Lippman helped the state department write the Mar-' shall plan. . . . Richard Gaines,, who played Lincoln in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" and Woodrow Wilson in "Time to Come," gets a third term as George Washington in "Uncon-quered" "Uncon-quered" . . . Howard Hughes has a luxurious yacht under construction. It'll mother a plane. . . . The special spe-cial automobile that El Morocco's John Perona took to Italy was stoned in Rome. . . . What price Hooper, Mutual's top rating show has been dropped by the sponsor. An indignant Republican called Henry Wallace a dreamer. dream-er. "He lives in his own world!" "Do you blame him," asked a reporter, "with the shape ours is in?" The Intelligencrates: Some say Margaret Truman wouldn't have the opportunity to sing professionally profession-ally if her father weren't president. Others insist that it is to her great credit to sing publicly despite her father. . . . Peggy -Pulitzer (she's doing a book on President McKin-ley) McKin-ley) came across this masterpiece of understatement in Mrs. McKin-ley's McKin-ley's diary: "They shot dearest this afternoon" . . . Since the Washington Washing-ton circus. Hughes bills his name in larger type than Jane Russell, his star! . . . Xavier Cugat has invested heavily in the candy biz. "Cugat's Nugats." Always thought he was slightly rutty. After it was reported that Mr. Truman went on an orchid-hunting expedition in Brazil, a Washington correspondent quipped: "Well, that's one way to get orchids pick 'em yourself!" |