Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-01-30
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New York Heartbeat
Faces About Town: Virginia
Bruce, being beautiful at Fifty-fifth
and Fifth. Oughtagetta ticket for
obstructing sidewalk traffic like that
Ben Bernie, the poor mans
Toscanini. The very, very poor
mans Jimmy Walker, who is
doing a musical comedy with Rob-
ert Stolz, who composed 1.-TWO Hearts
in Three-Quarter Time" Oscar
Levant, the Milton Berle of the in
telligentsia.
Midtown Vignette: Two months
ago young man and girl met aft
er reading for roles in "The Corn
Is Green" and admitted they were
discouraged about their chances of
making the cast. 'Tell you what"
she said, by way of Frightening up
the conversation eff I get into the
show I'll buy you bottle of cham
payne, and if you get in you can
buy one for me" "Okay," he
said The other Saturday night
a boy and girl bought two bottles of
wine and split the check They
were Richard Waring and Thelma
Schnee.
Memos of a Midnighter: George
Jean Nathan's new Oriental first
night friend is Kimi Toye of Club
Waikiki. Says she intrigues him
because she looks so bored
Horace Schmidlapp, the millionaire
producer, is breathless over Count
ess LA Willing, a Hungarian pretty
There was a fist-fght be-
tween former Asst D. A. St. Angelo
and the editor of the East Side News
Sailing Baruch Jr. says it
must have been some other Baruch,
he was in no Longchamps fight .
S. Skolsky has worried so much
about the war, they are calling him
Bundle of Nerves for Britain" =.
Hollywood etiquette, columns Hub
bard Heavy, expects you to intro
duce welded actresses by their
screen nameS-never as Mrs.
Too often you'll be speaking not only
out of turn-but also out of date.
Broadway Novelette,: CARLOS Wis
it to Panama Hattie" was event
full. First, a photog cornered Greta
in perfect spot, while she was
standing at attention during the ma
tional anthem. Carlo pulled down
her hat to hide her kisser When
she was about to enter cab with
Gaylord Hauser, an autograph-cam-
era pest snapped her, and Greta
sizzled. She hit the camera, but the
girl held on to it HauSer then
slapped it to the sidewalk As
Carlo started to enter the taxi
again, the girl threw the camera at
her-hitting Greta right in her rum
BILE seat-while the crowd howled.
REPORTERS PRIVATE PAPERS
Verne Marshall is groaning out
loud because our state department
allegedly high-hatted Hitler's peace
memo :, Marshall doesn't men
ton that Hitler's word is VIGOROUSLY
worthless even among his own al
lies At any rate, Marshall
took his grievance to the networks
and Numbered He saSsed back
at the editorial page of the Herald
Tribune so violently that people went
right out and bought that edition
to read the shellacking Marshall got
When Verne has had a few
more scraps perhaps he will know
that it is pretty amateurish to men
ton the names an enemy calls you
1t not only gives those words
circulation, but Marshall would be
surprised how grateful people are
to learn about them.
Gloria Swanson is on her way to
being tie wealthiest woman in the
nation Her new business is
financing refugee inventors, who ar
rive here with not much coin, but
full of ideas-the one thing the Nazis
cannot rob She bankrolls them
for percentage of the earnings
Everything is on the up-and-up .
Her recent trip to South America
was not a pleasure jaunt, as she told
the gazettes, but business trip to
interest mine owners there in her
new alloy 1t is supposed to
be much lighter than the stuff now
used in planes-and much stronger.
Her big hacker is an ambassador.
Responding to recent emergen-
cy call of invasion, seven giant
American bombers came down at
Croydon, near London, after nom
stop transatlantic passage care
we in timer" was the anxious query
EYES," was the casual answer.
''tea is just being served"
Funny thing, but "Gone With the
Wind" the greatest grosser in the
history of movies, was severe
blow to the industry OF the ap-
proximately 500, 100000 spent by
the film fans yearly, "GWTW"
grabbed So, 1000, 000-which left only
a mere $68, zoo, 900 in the pot for 9TH
er moom-pitchers.
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