The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-25

 MotabIes
 Are Caught
Stroll Down Great Street, Other Avenues, Brings
 Many Encounters
By GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-Any 15- minute stroll down Broadway, 5th avenue. or 42nd street is sure to be productive of at least dozen en- counters. Each is worth a story, al 1 though the names involved may not always be accustomed to the bright , lights.
 Here is Missy, whose father. a football coach, is athletic director of Hampden-S Sidney College, in Vir- ginia Missy's real name is Grace Logue Bernier. and she explains that shining light in her eyes with the announcement that she soon is to become a bride of the editor of a weekly newspaper, somewhere in the east When that happens Missy will be Mrs. Lampson Smith. Her dad (thev call him 'Yank'D has had quite a career as a football coach. It was he who gave Alabama its first Rose Bowl team the one that had John Mack Brown on it.
 That ack-headed young man scribbling a left-handed note on the back of a menu is Frank Wilson Probably you don't know who he is But you listen to what he has to say all the time. He writes the Kay Kyser show each week. He is also the author of The Bishop and the Gargoyle,' a radio feature Frank is Cincinnati boy, born. he tells you. Gin the white-stone-s -stooped section made famous by Edna Ferb- CTS Back Street. For a while, after coming to New York, he lived above a speakeasy in genteel ele- gance, dining on peanuts and choco- late bars. Then he finally got going.
 If you pass the old Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd street you are al- most certain to bump into Nat Dorf- man, theatrical pressagent whose clients include Irving Berlin, Buddy DeSylva, and others. But ask him Louisiana Purchase" or any of his other shows What that light in his eyes that proud parents are always afflicted with he says, My kid, he won another tournament. He's six teen. think he's going to get some where Mats kid is a strappine young buck who is already regarded as one of the finest amateur tennis players in the east.
 Here comes Doris Dudley, gal irl blue slacks, shapely sweater, and dark glasses. She's on her way tC keep an interview with one of the drama critics She got quite play in the papers little while back when John Barrymore and his wife staged that rumpus at the opening of My Dear Children" That was when Doris was busted from the show in favor of Barrymores wife Elaine, and it was then that Doris got off her classic remark to the reporters: q am in the peculiar position of trying to fight sex with talent Between Broadway plays Doris is being featured in radio drama Her papa is Bide Dudley, the drama critic.
 Well, that's Broadway, that's 42nd street, that's any street. You try to get somewhere and you find yourself talking shop with people you haven't seen, or thought of, in weeks. Most of them aren't known outside of New York, but they are important. They are the people behind the scenes The engineers who really make the wheels go round
 Recommended = Blue Barron $ recording of Sometime I'm Hap py." A hundred recordings of this fine song have been made in the past. but nobody ever made it right until Barron came along.
 ! Perhaps the most appropriately manned photographer in New York is Caesar Camara, who has bundled Eup his cameras and departed for Mexico, where he will make pictures tfor the Mexican government. Cam Tara is also an expert trap drummer