Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-18
Walter
Winche||
Damon Runyon's Film
Puts Him in Tight Shoes
BY WALTER WINCHELL


THE FIRST NIGHTS: The
L most exciting event of
the new week is the midnight
preview of Damon Runyon's
Tight Shoes" film
The unwilling will be diff
ferent, what with the invited
. guests including characters
the author has written about.
Harry, the Horse. for instance.
Broadway Rose, Commodore
Dutch, Big Butch, Swiftly Nor
gan, Renee. the Hatcheck
Girl, The Night Mayor OF
Broadway, Louie, the Louise.
Ivy, the Painter, Cheesecake
Ike, Skibooch, Blackie, Chink,
Paddock Charlie. Chicago
George and Lennie. the
Lyon
No place outside OF New
York, perhaps, could such a
preView audience be gathered
1t will be the Broadway
INCEST bunch, at any rate
Runyon will be the one in the
Tight Shoes The other
columnists will be the ones in
The Tight Hats.
THE MAGIC Lanterns:
L Sunny" which Marilyn
Miller and Jack Donohue
(God rest EN- BOTH made a
musical smash in the Twen-
ties. is pleasant cinema in the
handS-make il feet--of Ray
Bolger and Anna Neagle. The
hippity-hopping Hartmans get
the joint 10 jumping, too. and
then there's that good song,
Who
One Night in Lisbon"
with title that hints at spy
stuff, stresses nonsense and
sparkling instead. Fred Mac
Murray ferries bombers across
the Atlantic, and Madeleine
Carroll is the English lass who
makes the risk worth taking
1t gets a little sticky, but not.
for very long at time =.
Abbott and Costello are
hawking the hoke in war
time caper, in the Navy" 1t
is about as silky as a Minsky
blackout, but who's looking
for subtlety? II gets songs
from Dick Powell and the
Andrews girls. but mostly it's
the low comics who entertain
you.
That gal comic who gets all
those laughs with her dialect
ing on Fred Aliens show is
Minerva Plus How come
Mr.. Schwish is getting so
much work on the air lately?
Is the falsetto getting fashion
able in show business again.
gahffabid? ... Claudia" born
as a mag piece, made into
hit show. peddled TO the flick
ers for six big figures. reached
the networks last week. It's
been everything but poem,
so why not ? Claudia. Claudia,
Claudia, What a coin-making
broad ayuh"
TIVE Story Tellers: Joseph r.
L Philips points out. in Who,
that just by scavenging along
with Hitler. Joe (the Boss
Stain is doing O. K.
'1n less than two years"
writes Phillips. thanks to
war In which ne was not for
mally engaged. Stain has won
more territorial gains for his
country than any Russian
since Gar Peter the Great"
Maybe the Heinies are
mobilizing on the Bolo Dor
ders TO punish them for what
they're always screaming at
Britain: Imperial conquest
and landgrabbing."
Hearts and Flowers" is the
appropriate title on North
Bigbce's affectionate piece on
tent shows. He names Jeanne
Eagels and Rosalind Russell
as the most celebrated gals TO
come out from under canvas.
TIIE Front Pages: Some
L daily with a big feature
staff should dig up a yarn ex-
planning the complete setup
Of the Communist Party line.
The phrase keeps appearing
in the news columns. but too
many of us aren't hep to all
il means. Just what are the
dirty errands the American
BolShewacks have to run for
the Kremlin?
The Hitler handout that