Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-12-05

(WNU Service)
The New York Scene:
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The New York Scene:
Faces About Town: The F.D.R.
Jrs. practically necking at ring
side table (next to this colyum's)
the other night just when several
newspaper men phoned him to check
this reliable" tip: ''We hear your
wife is in a plane bound for Reno"
Count Vincent Orssich talking
tactlessly for an alien Prettiest
of the Texas skyscrapers-turning
every neck at the Stork club-lovely
Mary Dowell, of Fort Worth
Tommy Manville growing old grace
fully. He can dance only one cho-
rus, and then retreats back to his
coca cola and ringside table
Charlie Chaplin being greeted affec-
tionately wherever he goes.
Sallies in Our Alley: George Jean
Nathan, the critic, was asked his
opinion of a young newcomer play
wright. ''The best thing I can say
about his writing" Maitland George
lis that it is legible" Wilkie
Mahoney, the scripter, says that for
every genius in Hollywood there's
rotten movie on Broadway A
drunk displaying gigantic Willkie
button was yelling: 81 won with
Willkie! I won with Willkie!" in
front of the Rivoli theater. One of
the STEMS gamblers asked him:
"Whaddaya mean you won with
Willkie? He came in second!"
$50 WHAT" hiccoughed the stew, Il
had him across the board!"
MemOs of Midnighter: They are
saying that Twentieth Century-Fox
stopped growing when Shirley Tenn
pie didn't -. Phyllis Ruth is
Pretty-Face Shearer's successor in
G. Rats affections Marjorie
Logan, filing from golf champ Chap
man, is the shadow of j. CARROT of
Greenwich The L. CARTONS of
the Post have a new Blessed He
vent . The Taft Bellmen's annual
affair will attract the Broadway
crowd. Satdee at the Park Palace
on 10th Doris Greb, one of
the many omigoddesses in the Copa-
cabana girl division, is the reason
for the nightly attendance of Ho-
racio Sanchez Alzagar. He is
Macoco's nevview and one of the
richest blokes in Argentina.
New Yorchids: The American Art
lists Groups contribution to quicken
appreciation for contemporary art
Yuletide cards. Merely wonderful
Twentieth Century's "Chad
Hanna" a Nunnally Johnson delight
:. . Gloria Blake's thrilling trill-
ing at the Beachcomber. A 17-year-
young lark Joey Adams Loew's
units, the talk of the circuit
The British Empire Circles Grand
Ball at Manhattan Center "Big
White Fog by talented colored
players at the Lincoln theater
And the marriage of words and mu-
sic in the ditty: "The Girl Who
Took Second Look at Me-"
Broadway Smalltalk: An Austrian
baroness is to be evicted from a
midtown hostelry because her kind
friend, an aging banker, refuses to
pay her rent any longer p. George
Davis, who was recently reported
proposing to Gypsy Rose Lee, has
quit Harper's Bazaar The wise
guys will betcha that wheat will
again be $3.50 in May, 1941
"Meet the People," the revue in
H'wood Git is a pet there) debuts
in New York December Is in Shu-
bert house Jerry Cooper thinks
the authors of those three Hollywood
plays (Which libel the movietown
people) should be written up them
selves in show entitled: Beverly
Heels Park & Tilford, now
celebrating their centennial, pen
stoned four vet workers with full
salary Allan Finn is now radio
ed of NeWsWeek French Vichy-
men are using U. S. society women
(whose friends leave by clipper) to
carry their confidential messages to
Vichy. To escape censoring and
control at Bermuda.
Manhattan Murals: The projec-
zionist at Radio City Music Hall lis
tening to Uncle Don on his portable
radio while screening Escape" :.
The two Japanese with miniature
candid cameras slung over their
shoulders. One took pictures Cat
nightly of Fifth Avenue shop in
terror. Sunday eve'g about 6:45.
Looked very comical The eat
cry on 10th and 7th which adver-
tises: Don't Eat Until Open!"
Midtown Vignette: Jean Harring-
ton, the post-deb, titled with the
Stork management recently and
stayed away from the joynt for
few weeks. She walked in again
Sunday midnight, waited for the
balloons to fall an hour later. She
caught lucky one containing 500
bill The following day she
gave luncheon for several friends
at opp!
Midtown MelOdrama: Stage mag