The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-31
BY Dorothy Kllaallen


II bothers me no little when |
see girls out for a gay time be-
decked in service insignia. There
is something not quite suitable
about a lass dancing a rumba at
the Zanzibar wearing captains
bars as costume jeyelry...Of
course the invasion quarterbacks
are busy as four-star generals
these nights in the bistros. and
that's all right as long as they're
Just guessing. not telling. But
sometimes | wonder when a table.
cloth strategist begins. We'll,
they'll probably make the first
landing at x" how close he is TO
the truth, and does he know It?
The Roosevelt hurchill.Stalin con-
ference was never much OF a Sc
cret, but IL does seem odd that a
New York night club proprietor
should have been able on Nov. 81
to confide that the conference.
which began the 2Sth. was going to
be held in Iran. Maybe 1t was just
a guess, but | have an uncomfort-
a BILE feeling that such guesses could
lead to sudden death. Loose Lips
Sink Ships. as the posters say.
This might be a good time to re-
member that one.
Frankie Boy has contributed
more than his vocal talents, his
bow tie and his falling lock of hair
to the Current Scene. The histor-
ians. the radio comics and the
yaudevillians can thank him for
inspiring the waves OF laughter
via the Sinatra gags and the SHAT
"a representations. A generation
or two ago the Model T. Ford had
the folks giggling. Now it's the
Voice...lt's always struck me as
quaint that people from the hinter-
lands seem to think the words
city" and "sophistication" are
synonymous. just as broadway"
and "hard-boiled" are supposed to
mean roughly the same thing. If
you're under that impression. too.
look in the Roadway souvenir
shops, where smart-aleck gadgets
play second fiddle TO pillows en-
broidered with Mother" or Sweet
heart" and other sentimental trif-
les. Watch the tough" cops in
Duffy Square feeding the pigeons
or kibitz at the Little Church
Around the Corner as the street
crowds watch a newly married
couple come out. New York soph-
isticated? Then so are Sparta, Wis,
and Santa Claus, Indiana.
! guess the most unenvled of.
flee holder in this nation Is Goth.
ans Little Flower. Poor Butch
must have learned that Lincoln
was only half right. II you be-
lieve the editorials, Butch can't
seem to please none Of the people
none Of the time-and twice on
Sundays, when he broadcasts...
Audiences at Dream With Music"
keep saying OF Joy Hodges, Does
mt she remind you of Bette Dav.
Isl" She does, too....When you OPP
en- fresh copy of a magazine, how
do you choose which story you'll
read first? select mine first by
the authors then by the illustra.
tions....No wonder Skating Vani-
ties" has been doing such fantas-
tic business all over the country.
An expert in such sporting matters
informs me that in the past cou.
pie of years the number OF roller
Kinks in the United States has
grown from 1900 to a wartime
$500. Me. can't roller skate or
ice skate, but | have a feeling that
one or the other is going to get
me any minute now.
I always thought it was so fru.
gal OF Gertrude Niesen to never
wear hats until discovered that
those tiny sprigs OF flowers or
feathers which she pops so casually
into her page-boy couture cost s45
throw-you hold me!....Td like to
be the first to tell Madame Helena
Rubenstein. who has a rs room
triplex apartment In that Park Ave.
building, that when a guest said
he wanted to be taken to the Rub
ensteins the other day an attend
at in the lobby barked: What
Rubensteins? Don't you know we
have 900 tenants in this building?
! guess the 1914 version OF a
wallflower must be a girl who has
| neyer heen chosen nv anu proun