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Show (1 1 a Broadway Stardust: The fountain pen firm which Introduced In-troduced the under-water pen soon will bring out an under-water perfume per-fume so you will smell sweet while swimming. Greatest invention since soap. . . . Bess Myerson (Miss America Amer-ica of 1945) is organizing a 21-piece all-girl band. They will follow Tex Beneke's crew at the 400 in January. . . . Greenwich (Conn.), home burg for some of the wealthiest people in the world, is in a tizzy with excitement ex-citement about the identity of the 20 locals who voted Communist. Some of the millionaires there are suspected. . . . Lindy's raised its excellent coffee a nickel per cup. Multiply that nickel by the over 50,000 patrons weekly and get dizzy. . . . How night club concessionaires get rich: The recent half-cent per pack rise in cigarettes prompted concessionaire Ellis to tilt his price a jitney per pack. Midtown Vignette: Blanche , Turka, a fine actress, got her first stage assignment in ages recently, and therein lies this paragraph, . . . Blanche wear-led wear-led of playing frowzy character roles in the films and returned to Broadway open o offers. . . . None came until Eve Wygod (owner of a beauty parlor) persuaded per-suaded La Yurka to let herself be glamourized. ... So wotl . . . When showmen saw the "new" Yurka they became entranced en-tranced and goose-pimply. . . . But the role she got is that of a "progressive" German woman wom-an mit oudt glammer! Core of alcoholism isn't as simple as the movies make out. Many such sanitariums around H'wood now charge as high as $100 daily. . . . For a little number called "Mother Wore Tights," Betty Gra-ble Gra-ble wears mink tights mink, not pink. . . . Realty experts are amused at the 10 per cent raise (the newspapers news-papers are giving them) when rent controls die they expect the average aver-age tilt to be at least 20. May go as tall as 60. . . . D. Smart, the mag publisher, will offer Elliott Roosevelt $20,000 for "a good interview" when he returns from Moscow. Elliott is cleaning up a mint, mainly because he became "good copy" following all those press attacks on him for over a year. . . . Street Scene: Sec'y of State Byrnes saving a woman from being hit by a bus at 50th and Madison. The other night in the House of Dixon the swellodic Joe Moo-ney Moo-ney quartet started playing its humorous arrangement of "Just a Gigolo." ... A pleasant-looking young chap (sitting with an older woman at the ringside) became uncomfortable as Moo-ney Moo-ney started singing the special lyrics directly at him. ... As the laughter grew, the fellow squirmed. . . . He excused himself him-self and beat a hasty retreat ti the lounge room until the song ended. . . . When he returned, his companion teased him about his self-consciousness. . . . "But he was singing it right at me," he remarked, "and everyone was laughing." . . . "My dear," the woman replied, patting his hand, "Joe Mooney was singing directly at your imagination. You see, Joe is blind' The Intelligentsia: Henry Miller's novel, "Tropic of Capricorn," (banned in the U. S.) has been one of France's (English-language) best sellers. It recently was translated into French and was bannedl . . . Tom Costain, author of "The Black Rose," a click, has finished a new one, due in March, "Money Man." . . . "Contact," Nebraska penitentiary's peniten-tiary's publication, features "profiles" "pro-files" under the title of "Prisonali-ties." "Prisonali-ties." . . . Philip Wylie's "Generation "Genera-tion of Vipers" book, four years old, still sells 1,000 copies a week, via boosters. His next will be called "An Essay on Morals." The few times H. 8. T. does something right he doesn't tel1 the country about it. Recently frlnstance, he's alleged to hav received a scorching letter from a newly - elected big shot, screaming against raising the immigration bars. The President supposedly replied: re-plied: "Unless you happen to be an American Indian your attitude atti-tude is stupid. Applied retroactively, retro-actively, you could never have been born here, since your forbears for-bears wouldn't have been able to emigrate from their foreign birthplaces." Sounds in the Night: In the Mermaid Mer-maid room: "That's a lovely dress, but her face is showing!" ... In the Stork: "She's the sort of gal men look at twice. They don't believe be-lieve it the first time." ... In the Village Vanquard: "A nice guy is someone who takes a lady out A wolf takes her in." ... At Chateaubriand: Chateau-briand: "That nobody used to be somebody until he thawt he was everybody." ev-erybody." ... At the Henry Hudson: Hud-son: "Who writes his smuterial?" ... At the Victorian room: "Oh, don't be a Jerk. Or am I too late?' |