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Notes of a New Yorker
E. Hemingway will draw $50, 900
from Paramount for the rights to
film his best-seller, "For Whom the
Bell Tolls" The sales now entitle
him to $4,000 for those rights
and from the speed at which it is
selling the ''150'' limit will soon be
reached . The Ups and Downs
of Show Business: "Sealo," the boy
with the seals fiippers (instead of
hands,, who was feature at the
And Street Hubert's Museum, is
now peddling song sheets along The
Big Apple.
Playwright Elmer Rice, who once
raped the drama reviewers for be-
ing too mean, has a son, Robert,
who writes pieces for the drama
pages and scolds critics for being
too sugary-to the biggest hit in
town: "The Corn Is Green" star
ring The Barrymore Pancho,
the slick Copacabandsman from Ar
gentina, is so nuts about the guide
OF Oo-S-A" that he became a citi-
zen last week Myrna Logs
beeg admirer is the former Mexican
Consul in L. A. :. Coffee Pot chains
out there are changing the names
from Coffee Pot No. /, Coffee Pot
No. 2, etc., to Greek Restaurant No.
/, etc., and the biz is away up ..
Times movie man, A. Wright Jr.,
is on the verge of being summoned
to duty, now that he's passed his
exam for Flight Ensign.
Five famous Washington legisla-
tors are being studied for suspected
Nazi activities What naughty
boys among the War Vets destroyed
the printing press turning out the
most subversive literature around
town? Happened in Queens Nice
going Two Yorkville buns went
looking for brawl in Dawes Blue
Room the other dawning. Two Irish
cab drivers and a detective in there
at the time obliged. A pret-tee
theeenngggg When 'H'ya Cen
tlemen," the new musical, hits
Broadway shortly, the indications
are that it'll make Ella Logan a
bigger songsess than ever That
Margie Hart can think up more
angles to get her name in the paper.
She's written the army for permish
to organize her own girlesk show
at her expense Night club own
ers are barring each other. That
oughta improve the joynts.
Hollywood carries the snob sys-
tenn into unemployment. Writers,
when they're let out, always 'com-
plete their assignments" Actors
Finish an engagement" Stars
are suspended" You have to
be big executive simply to "get
fired" John Barrymore's dot
ter, Diana, is described by an inter-
viewer as suffering from debu-
tante's occupational disease: bore
DOM But boredom isn't the
deb's disease. It's her occupation,
What's the significance, if any, of
the fact that much of the propa-
ganda mail (sent out by the Bund
here) is mailed via half-penny post
age, the engraving being of Nathan
Hale? Frank Gervasi, Golfers
rowing correspondent, feared miss
ing-has turned up in Puerto Rico
They say the inventor of the
bomb-sight is not a flier, but a
musician-astronome
A new mag about Uncle Sam for
South America is being readied by
former Time editor, Myron Weiss.
A weekly Have some irony:
The day after Jesse Livermore
killed himself (because he was
broke) Govt agents attached a
check for a few hundred dollars
waiting for him as royalties on his
"How to Trade in Stocks" book.
In the old days when a Greek met
a Greek they opened a restaurant.
Today when Greek meets an Ital-
ian Fascist they start a race
The Stems most show-offy actress
"a bit more than bit-player) made
one of the clerks in an East Side
hotel run out and get change for q
$40 bill so she could buy a two-cent
stamp. One guess.
Marshall Field, the millionaire
publisher, was offered Ambassador
j. P. Kennedy's post in England
and turned it down Joan Craw-
ford defaulted the SIS, ZOO breach of
contract action brought by producer
Lee Morrison. He now demands full
payment. La Crawford is busy writ
ing her answer Tin a Hollywood
mag) to recent critic ;. The ''Du-
Barry" premiere in Washington was
crowded with fireworks backstage
when Frances Williams and stage
manager S. Ledner had it out.
Sammy forgot to knock on her I'M
dressing room before entering.
Such a to-do! Rumor has ex-
Tammany leader ]. ]. Hines in
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