Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-12-05
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Man About Town
Newspaper men everywhere can
be proud of the way one of them
died, in London. His name-one to
remember-was Arthur F. B. Port
man. Many Americans knew him
through his by-line Audax. That was
tagged on the copy he penned for
Horse and Hound, for Portman was
one of Europe's best racing report
ers. Portman's wife was an invalid,
bed-ridden for several years She
was unable to 60 to the shelters
when the Nazi bomberS came over
to wage Hitler's war. That's the way
it was the last morning the Port
mans heard the raid siren The re-
porter went where he always went
during raids. to the bedside of his
ailing wife. And there he was killed,
with her, by bomb.
Douglas Mackenzie, an Australian
scribe, who distinguished himself in
London until he connected with a
New York paper, was being shown
the midtown places by confrere
Gene McHugh, 20 years with the
same sheet Gene is a man of
few superlatives, but when Macken-
zie asked him what sort of fellow
a rival was, Genes orchid was
what any reporter would welcome
on his tombstone: Hes a news
paperman. Period"
The Headliners: Margaret Lind
says quote Every actor has GER
tain amount of ego" Yeah,
sometimes they think they're good
and sometimes they think nobody
else is Same lady's comment:
Actresses like to talk about them
selves Except when they're
gargling Ann Sheridan's warn
ing: ''There are some things girls
have to know about men" She
means that it is less of a strain to
walk some place with man than
60 there with him in taXicab
Adolphe Menjou's line: ''The screen
is an educator" Sure, a diplo-
ma from the screen entities you to
enter any kindergarten.
Sinclair Lewis has quit the stage
because, he complained, acting took
up too much of his time Any
body who ever saw Red play scene
knew he was bound to run out of
time sooner or later, the way he
was consuming it.
New York Novelette,: This is the
very sad story of Strawberry Sam,
a milk-wagon horse, who had the
West Fifty-eighth street beat. Sam
would walk up onto the sidewalk to
greet show-folks coming home in the
wee hours. They usually gave him
sugar Jumps or they'd pet his nose
=. One dawning Sam went too far
and bit a chorus girls fingers
So they treated him like a policeman
who is being denoted They
banished poor Sam to the Jackson
Heights "sticks" for three months
. But he took it all like a man,
and is now back on the Fifty-eighth
street beat again.
MemOS of Midnighter: The fin
gerprinting of night club employees,
ETC., revealed six convictions against
a famed joynt owner .. Joan
Burgess, the lovely dancer, and mill
lionaire furrier Merl will middle
aisle What's happening to the
Broadway Royalty? prince" Mike
Romanoff has gone to work in a
night club, and now Duchess" Gym
thia Cavanaugh is booked at Berto-
lotti's as thrush A famous
actress was locked up in Los Ange-
les on dope charge.
Paul NUM- and Nigel Bruce al
most came to blows on the Hudson
Bay" set Page 40 in Life has
the landowners giggling p. Geor-
gette Mckee (who plays Hilda in
"Ramparts We Watch") became
Mrs. N. H. Willis in Illinois
Mischa Auer will next marry Joyce
Hunter, vocalist with the Henry King
orchestra. Auer gave his wife the
$4,000 house and big coin for his
freedom Literotics say Chris
TOPPER Morley didn't write kitty
Foyle," that his daughter did, and
that the book was peddled under his
name to make bigger money for her.
Sounds in the Night: At The Whirl-
ing Top: "They grew to love each
other more and more month after
month and round after round"
At The Beachcomber: 81 don't care
if she's got skeleton in her closet
s'long as it amt her husband" .
In Leon & Eddie's: "Be careful,
gal. One false move and I'm yoursl"
In the Forty-eighth st. Tav-
ern: what has he got that she
hasn't gotten?" At The Torch:
"She gives away kisses as though
they were campaign buttons"
At Armando's: Hes very good at
inventing things especially lies"
In The Magyar: "What p1agi-
artist. You know-a guy who can
read-and then write!"
This Is New York