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Show 1 1 is IT? -Ml The Late Watch: Corkscrew Canyon Confetti: Cameron Cam-eron Mitchell, who has feature billing bill-ing -vith Van Johnson in MGM's "Higii Barbaree," was an usher in a 42nd street movie joynt eight years ago. . . . Serge Rubenstein's lawyer fees for his court trial and conviction were more than $200,000. ... LaGuardia's loss of weight is 1 worrying pals. Lost 40 pounds. . . . They now hear tax collector Joe Nunan hopes to resign by July 1 and accept a big post as restaurant czar. . . . Didjez know there are two detectives on New York's "Finest" who are not yet 25 years old? . . . Another famed male swooner is about to lose his program. Sponsors are slashing budgets again. . . . Ex-publiclst Ex-publiclst James Donahue buys old trolley cars and peddles ' them to Portugal at a terrif profit. . . . During Dur-ing the war Mr. Churchill's imported im-ported (from Cuba) cigars were X-rayed first by the British secret service. Broadway Side Show: Before the Alzanas made the Ringling Big Top they were a father and I son act appearing at county w fairs in England. ... As part of their specialty they invited anyone any-one from the audience to walk the rope with them. ... Of course, it was strictly a gag nobody ever took up their offer. . . . One day a very pretty young girl accepted the challenge chal-lenge and gave the crowd a big laugh as she timidly walked the high rope with their help. ... It was such fun, wheeee! . . . Today To-day she's part of the thrill. , . . As Mrs. Alzanas Jr. ' Washington Digest: Some of the bitterest personal feuds are between be-tween senators from the same state and same party. The one between "Ole Tawm" Connally and "Pappy" "Pap-py" O'Daniel (Texas) Is notorious. . . . Mississippis Bilbo and Eastland East-land have been at dagger points; Tobey and Bridges of New Hampshire Hamp-shire observe the amenities on the surface, but there's a smouldering fire off-the-record. . . . And Aiken and Flanders (Vermont) watch each other suspiciously. . . . Senator Tnhpv nrnmisps sneotaeular head- lines in his probe of the RFC loan to the B. & O. railroad. . . . Bob La Follette told chums he doesn't want that Greece mission post. . . . Why's Sen. Taft sitting on the lid of the joint congressional commission on the economic report? . . . 'The Paul Porter Mission to Greece Report" Re-port" (to the state department) made the papers only in part. His summary and recommendations were released to the press. But what about the other eight chapters? chap-ters? Will they ever be published? Hmmmmm? Derby Note: Aunt Jane of the Loovill Times (sho'nuff!) reports re-ports this amusing item via the new management of the Kentucky Ken-tucky hotel. When they decided to do over the cocktail lounge last spring, they planned naming nam-ing 1t after the derby winner. . . . Then they discovered it would have been named the Assault room! . . . They made no promises this year. Suppose On Trust won? Headline: "Mrs. FDR's Driver's License Restored." S'good to see a Roosevelt at the wheel again. . . . Lovely Hedy LaMarr is so ill no more pix until fall. . . . The Florida Flor-ida gaming places won more than eight million. . . . Five Broadway night-spot owners are under federal fed-eral indictment for tax finagling. . . . Harry Bridges' planned strike for pineapple workers in Hawaii Dis set for June 2. . . . Specs are reaping a fortune on the circus. . . . Un-aged Scotch making locals veddy seeck. . . . Insiders hear the Prez will assign Wilson Wyatt overseas as the confidential emissary emis-sary of the White House. . . . Revelation of the upper-case profits in steel (during union negotiations) will cause a price reduction. . . . Add street scenes; That electrickv sign on 47th, which plays tic-tac-toe with itself. The gazettes report the trip our diplomats took to Yurrop was a waste of time. Meaning so was the one the Guys and Dolls In our armed forces took, too? The Big-Time: Broadway wiseys ! D predict box ofilce tariffs will be lowered to conform with the big drop in "the take." The Grandest Canyon, they report, had its most j awful weekend in five years. - . . j Susanna Foster is returning from j Yurrop sooner than expected. The tour curdled. . . . Many midtown ; house dix have been let go. Have ' fun! . . . Dana Andrews is asking only 75 Gs for his $2S0.(100 yot. ... I Josephine Delmar. with the record (we think) for USO overseas entertainers enter-tainers years?), has had to retire re-tire from show biz because the Broadway execs who sent her overseas over-seas "wouldn't see me when I returned." Is this true, Messrs. Phillips and Lastfngel? I |