Laurel outlook., 1945-03-07
Liqhts Of New York
by |. l. STEVENSON

g. A%1
the English Grill tapping his spec
tacles on the table in time with
hot jazz tune to which skaters on tn
Rockefellers ice rink are whirlin
and an elderly woman at
nearby table, coniding to her wait
er, "Swing music seems to appea
to all ages, not just high schoo
youngsters" . The waiter smiling
as he replies, tits a change TO
him, madam-that's DR.. Franz
Black, the symphony conducto
from NBC across the street"
William Gaxton and Victor Moor,
having tea together at Schrafft'!
Georgia room.
Cuff Notes: "Stage Pictorial" thu
first fan magazine the theater has
had, which recently made its APP
pearance on the ~newsstands, PROVED
an immediate hit. It's a p~rofusely
illustrated publication with storie:
and pictures of all Broadway shows
which will be issued quarterly un
til the newsprint situation permits i
to become a monthly. Mat Dorfman
well known Broadway publicist, is
the publisher. Crooner Andy
Russell forwards this army story:
A. Gil, who had been returned tc
civilian life, wrote the lieutenant Of
his former outfit: after all I've
gone through under you, it gives
me the greatest pleasure to tell you
to go to the devil" The mes
sage was returned with this nota-
ton: "Sir: Any suggestions o. in
quiries concerning the movements of
troops should be entered on army
form No. 1882, a copy of which is
enclosed"
Here G. There: Martha Scott get
ting off scot-free as a friend picks
up her dinner check at Theodore's.
Majestic Maggi McNellis in
vading the 1928 in a weird little
chartreuse hat that looks a IS if it
came out of Hedda Hopper's hat
hopper. While Diana, glamor-
Gus chirognomist (palmist to you)
sits in a palm daze over Elisabeth
Bergner's hand. . Libby Holman,
the blues singer, wearing her hair in
the mood indigo at LIE Ruban Bleu.
Femme spectators at the st.
Regis Maisonette cycling Jane Pick
ems trim legs enviously-she's
wearing real rubber boots.
Grand Dame Ethel Barrymore,
sheathed in royal purple velvet,
making n of her sweeping en-
frances - into a taxicab. jim
my Murphy, Morton Downey's
Welshman Friday, forlornly wend-
ing his weary way up and down Sind
street at 2 am. . Morton is
overseas but Jimmy, a creature of
habit, just can't keep away from
old haunts.
lettings: When Shirley Temple
was a guest on Milton Berries LET
Yourself Go" program, Berle was
reminded of the woman whose min
lister asked her what she had named
her new daughter. Shirley"
replied the mother, latter the ia
nous Shirley Temple" Eyes,
yes, of course" unused the minister.
Let me see, who's preaching there
-. Bob Hawk contends that
a lot of girls have to use soft soap
to get an expensive ring on their
Imogene Coca, Ruban
Bleu coincidence, insists that she
wants to open her own club just so
she can call it the Coca Cabana. .
AL Pearce has penned a new tune
you're the Only Girl For
Me. Darn It." Broadway is
where wolves first tempt and then
attempt.
Faces & Places: Luscious Jane
Murtah with hair as golden as a
candle flame, attracting plenty Of
male moths at La Martinique.
Knight, the alluring song
stress, and an air force looey cut
ing up he-and-shenanigans at the
Chatcaubriand. Petite song
stress Anita Ellis, who halls from
sunny California, taking in the
sights of Central park in the n To-
in Wonderland. "Sir"
James Dryer, the sawdust trail
who used to be a vaudeville
.,avorite himself, chatting with ro-
und Romo Vincent at the stage
ioor of Loew's State. Bill Nc
Cullom, one of my favorite night
Tub columnists, and his attractive
wife who was the first white child
,orn in a village away up near
Iudson's bay, going here and there
ogether.
Remarks: Garry Moore declares
hat folks who don't know which
yay to turn have no business in a
evolving door. Abbott and Cos
clio maintain that another case
yhen two heads are better than one
/; when a man is selling toupces.
.. Ad from a Boston paper:
laundryman, wet and fiat;
married. man preferred. Tommy
dorsey defines alimony as a mans
cash surrender" value. Dip
predict a showing of teeth at