Laurel outlook., 1944-04-26
Lights Of New York
by /. |. STEVENSON

being mobbed by the bobby-sock
, brigade at 44th and Broadway
Georgia Gibbs and his nibs Jimm.
Durante, munching hamburgers a
a Madison avenue burger bar afte.
their broadcast . and Jlmm!
having plenty of trouble keeping hi:
nose cut of the ketchup KAT
ryn Kuhn at the Wedgwood room
(she did Corinna Mura's gowns) tell
ing how she was snowbound fol
three days on her New Jersey poul
try farm recently . Before the
s~nowplows arrived, she had de-
signed l8 gowns . An entire
squadron of Raj pilots stormine
into the William Morris offices to
request photographs of their CT girl
friend, Yvette, whom they had met
in England last summer Patsy
Kelly, the girl with the cast-iron
lungs, giving out with a b~oisterous
Kelly-laugh over Imogene Coca's
antics at the Ruban Bleu.
Chatter: Sixteen proposals Oh
marriage-three by mail-have been
received by pretty Mary Mcnamara
since she assumed her post as LADY
doorman" at the Astor she
turned them all down because she's
waiting for her own soldier boy to
come back from the wal . DR..
Giovanni, the worlds greatest pick
pocket" who once sneaked the sus-
penders off FBI's ]. Edgar Hoover,
lost his wallet to a pickpocket the
other day . Willie Howard, who
has been making folks laugh for the
last 40 years, is slated to make
three pictures for MGM . Ina
Ray Hutton, whose yellow tresses
caused her to be billed over the
country as the Blonde Bombshell,"
prefers conjugal happiness to CLAM
our-the sunshine in her hair has
given way to chestnut brown
Overheard in the Central Park zoo:
Supervision is what the characters
have around Radio City when the
wind blows"
Faces and Places: Celeste Holm,
the girl who can't say mo-" in
"Oklahoma," discovering she can't
say mo" either-to a tempting choc-
olate eclair in Theodore's Perc
Westmore, the makeup man, max
ing up to a steak Eyes, he got it, at
Cafe Pierre. Paul Whiteman dart
ing like a bolt from the Blue met
work. to catch the Sis to his New
Jersey cattle farm Florence
Walton, who danced with Maurice
when they and the Castles were in
a world of their own, dining unrec-
ognized at the Cotillion room
jacques Pearl, the comic, coat I'M
buttoned, topping a Fifth avenue bus
going crosstown on 57th street .
Tall Paula Laurence towering over
a crowd of folk in an Astor elevator
. . Morose Oscar Levant and
gloomy Ned Sparks dining at the
of two different
scowls of thought.
This and That: The Second ave-
nue. bus driver who cheers his
grouchy morning passengers with:
"a nickel plus a smile, sir, that's
the fare here"-and in these days
too! . Fourteen-year-old network
Marion Loveridge, being a
real "Betsy Ross Girl" as she car
res leftover subway newspapers to
Manhattan's CVDO center on Fifth
avenue The elevator man in
he RCA building who's a double
or Frank Sinatra and who
city warns off any innuendos by
ittering office girls.
On Fifth Avenue: Clare Boothe
luce, the Connecticut Yankee, watch
ng taxis whiz by as she waits for
IN empty . Constance Bennett,
like the perfect cosmetics
model, cycling the new lipsticks in
he window of a shoppe A
rafic-harried cab driver having his
'wn private war with the driver
f a surrey at the entrance to Cen
raj park . The tap dancing
Messenger who delivers kilograms
n Rockefeller Center with a hop
liz q Slllllt g.. Liz oobNNANNN6
maya wearing a jewel-covered
'eskit with matching gauntlets, and
hallenging: "How you like dees,
ah? Benny Goodman's eight
lonths-old daughter, Rachel, being
'heeled into the park, a lass whose
oppa swings lullabys to put her to ,
Ieep . . . Benay Venuta on her way
be photographed for the of
magazine.
Addenda: At the Cog Rouge, the
resence Gall on the same evening"
various tables of Gene Kelly,
atsy Kelly and Nancy Kelly turn
lg the ringside into a sort of Kelly's
. Ebullient Eddie Davis
the incongruous role of ringsider
Leon and Eddie's (where he usu-
ly is the whole show applauding
glib and g~arrulous Joey Adams
is pinchhitting during Eddie's |
lnual brief vacation . AT Jack
empsey's, Joan Davis, popular ra- .
o Coincidence, swapping auto :
apis with Serpt. Barney Ross. \