The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-02
Walter WincheU
In Ne,u York
COLUMN CONFETTI

| He discardS the traditional battered felt hal
| (on the back Of the head for horn-rimmed
specs! When "Spellbound" is shown in
| S. America its title will be "Cuentame Tu
Vida (Ten Me Your Life) :. Tragic story
behind the forthcoming issue Of Vogue is the
sudden death of the beautiful 19-year-old
model Reve Riley. Her first important fashion
photos dot the magazine. This is how For
ever AMBER has been altered to pass the
censors: Amber's affairs in the book become
those Of Arnber's husband on the screen.
Tune Detective Sigmund Spaeth is recon-.
mended to orconductor Don Voorhees, discov-
cry. Don reports that the first phrase Of the
song hit, Symphony" is identical to the
pantomime music used for decades in vaude-
vile by Joe Jackson and his bike" Billie
Holiday, the blues thrush, will be presented
in a solo recital at Town Hall on Feb. 10th
at $50 pm. The sponsors are Greer johnson
and Robert Snyder. The latter is the young
man who "stage-managed" the United Nations
confab at San Francisco.
The theatrical listing for 'Pygmalion'' lists
the author as Bernard Shaw. Maybe they want
to make him sound like a new playwright, or
save money on the space-rates. Jerri (Rum
ana Co-cah Co-lah) Sullivan (she introduced
1t at the Versailles in New York; and Jimmy
-. Evelyn Knight, the delightful canary,
ana 1t. Col. VIM. Shipley are duetcetera.
HIS mater is Ruth B. Shipley OF the State
Dept Poppatunity knocked on the doof Of
the Gene Barrys dae's the Count in 1.-THE
Would-Be Centenary. It's boy at Woman
hosp. Newbold Morris. recently OF City
Hall becomes commentator, too. Gene
Tunney's seen Maurice Evans version OF
Hamlet four times.
Henry Morgentaau is being offered fl
nancial colyum job by a syndicate. That's a
natural. L. Walters new revue at the
Latin Quarter tomorrow night (they report)
has a higher budget than any of B'way's
famed musicals. The nut is II Gs weekly
All principals rate 4-figure wages, and the
chorus has 81 dolls. Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt,
who denied all blessed-event reports, may ad-
NIT it now.
fered the Marxmen in Room Service" the
other night. Across the way was Sinatra in
Step Lively which was filmed from that
musical. Mimi Benzel of the Met was
called a married woman by a gazette last
Sabbath, which she amt =. Col. Robert Lee
Scott has invested his royalties (from his book
and flicker version OF God Is My Co-Pilot'')
n Florida real estate. His Winter Park place
value is now estimated at around 800 Gs :.
preston that Johnny Mercer wrote Saturday
Night Is the Loneliest Night Of the Week.
which was written by Samuel Calm and Julius
Styne, who had the miseries until just now
The Village Barns Tex Fletcher rendered
ditty over the Mutual network the other
night about town called Tombstone. He has
since been appointed deputy marshal of that
Arizona burg. gold badge, etc. One day
the dictionaries will include Jerry Gray's new
word: Bilboneheads. Abner Deans Its a
Long Way to Heaven is witerature !. Some
observers dining at Moore's last night were
anxious to bet Truman will not run in le4s.
Others said he couldn't get the DENNY nomi-
nation That Eisenhower could win even if he
ran on the Communist ticket, so surefre is
he, etc.
Viewing the best seller lists ('Lost Week
end;" Ward 20;' Dark Legend etc. it
looks like strait-jackets are now fashionable
among the litree set. Kaiser, Ford and
Chrysler have proven that there's difference
between collective bargaining and collective
pickering Insiders say that Chas. Evans
rooms) was completed on Nov. 9th, but not
released because Of pressure. That's why it,
was sneaked out and released to the press
without knowledge of the proper parties.
We didn't appreciate 1.-THE WV Ri1umba'' un-
TIL we heard the Andrews Sisters version of
1t Tor Decca. Cugat plays it in Mexican
Holiday, due soon. The not-so-hot version
Is by Moro Morales, who merely composed it.
Radio circles are saying that radio ratingsI
don't impress them much anymore (wanna
net!). what they want to know is now much
OF the product do we sell?" Because they
couldn't be sure during the war when any,
thlng sold big, due to shortages, etc. Sonny
Dunham's crew goes into Arturo Childers' al
ways-crowded Flagler Gardens MiamD on
Feb 10th for big coin. Childers' Little Palm
Club Is now a branch of the mint. He's the
Bllllngsley down taere-meaning the most
popular host below 53rd Street, Manhattan. /.
Sec'y Ickes' explanation to intimates: II amt
qnttln'-just countin' friends. The district
attorneys office will explode a front pageI
bomb in the faces of some check-cashiag con-
Germs. The charge: Conspiracy. The books OF
the accused firms have been confiscated. 5. i
Don't miss the Bernard Brothers at the Yer
sailles Feb. 9Th. Funny people, Hey, Galen
Drake! Tell 10 Stafford that her sister Chris
tine made it. She's now bit Of confetti.
Sophie Tucker says the benefit racket is |
being overworked. In ten weeks in New York
she had over 200 letters requesting her ap-
pearance at them. and all letters added that
the event was "c1eared by Theatre Authori-
ty''. .Tf.' says Miss Tucker. Theatre
Authority had any regard for the actors
health the benefit business would have been
stopped long ago. i. She also points out
that vaude actors usually make up these pro-