The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-24
Along Broadway
By WALTER WINCHELL
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BROADWAY sTARDUsT
Wall Street is not too jubilant about the
Republican sweep . Several big stock
brokerages have notified their stats not to ex-
pect overly-generousS Yuletide bonuses .
Greenwich Conn.,, home burg for some OF
the wealthiest people in the world, is in a
thy with excitement about the identity OF the
Twenty locals who voted communist. Some OF
the millionaires there are suspected . 4.
Dept. of Deathless Optimism: That big, shin
ing electric sign on Broadway at 48th Street,
which proclaims: Nov at last you can see
The Outlaw which the censors have kept
from opening The editors at a famed
photo-rnags are tearing out what is left Of their
hair over the abundant number Of returns
each issue.
Bilbo's friends Incredible, you say?) claim
he's too i'll to attend the first session of the
new Congress and will stay home. No sense
in making us all sick DR.. Frym, famed
when he suggests that all judges and prose-
cutting attorneys be psychoanalyzed-so that
they won't take out their aggressiveness and
sub-conscious hat-eds on defendants .
Averell Hartman says he isn't thinking Of
resisning. What fun can that be with FDR
gone, Mr.. Hartmann? George Jessel says
the life of a movie starlet begins when she
l. viz Wall q oLoA . 0ASoo41A6 anu
gets a silver fox jacket to show off in at a
Hollywood premiere Its ove.,' he adds,
when she asks for an ermfne nose!"
Henry Luce and General Marshall have
phifft Cure of alcoholism isn't as Simple
as the movies make out. Many such san
itariums around H'wood now charge as high
as $100 daily How night club conces-
~sionaries get rich: The recent half-cent per
pack rise in cigarettes prompted concesionaire
Ellis to tilt his price a jintey per pack . =.
Leni Kiefenstahl, once listed as Hitler's, is
now the girl friend Of a French general, in
case you givadamb Corliss Lamont Is
having trouble other than political For
a little number called Mother Wore Tights,
Betty Cradle wears mink tights-mink, not
pink Lord Beave-brook says his best
paper, The London Standard, does not con-
form to American conception Of tabloids.
ITS" he said, "a very dull paper"
Lindy's raised its excellent coffee a nickel
per cup. Multiply that nickel by the over 50,-
900 patrons weekly and get dizzy Those
comedians there in the early ayems will get
4 Mckee Tin Their lox-and-bagel sandwiches)
il they don't start tipping those fed-up wait
ers . . Reuben's new 57th St. place will top
all the others in size. Due to open about
Christmas Solly Violinsky, the vaude-
vile wag Che has laid off since Mckinley was
L Ala AittS q NV" e0ltS o4AS
Cincinnati, Ohio" He says Bing Crosby will
be the first singer allowed ito louise it up"
|. The Spike Joneses have q news flash
|. His ~staffers say they haven't heard the
rumor going the rounds in Manhattan. That
publisher John Knight has II million for a
paper in New York"
The fountain pen firm which introduced the
underwater pen will soon bring out an under
water perfume so you will smell sweet while
swimming. Greatest invention since soap .
A musical comedy, which closed recently Govt
of town. to the loss of 5000, 900, didn't cost the
producer a penny . Street cleaner efficiency
is up 100 per cent now that the w~hite-wings
do not have to weave in and out Of parked
cars Bess Myerson (Miss America of
1945) is organizing a 21-piece al-girl band.
They will follow Tex Beneke's crew at the
400 in January Apollo is the richest OF
the record companies. 1t started as a shop
on 125th ST., Harlem.
Henry Miller's novel, '"Tropic Of Capricorn
Damned in the u. S., has been one of Frances
tEnglish-language) best-selle-s. 1t was recent.
ly translated into French and was banned!
The Eric Johnston office in Movetown
sees a brAwl brewing between Paramount and
RKO, both of whom are readying films on
the life Of the great Irish thrush, John Nc
Cornack Civilians who now 80 overseas
1or the war Dept. must sign up TO- TWO years
instead of one, as heretofore The War
Dept. sent an investigator to Florida to in
terview Colonel Irvine, pilot Of the Dreainboat
(for allesedly making a pass at Russia in an
interview, which his crew VOW he didn't do,
at au), but he has the last laugh. The investi-
gator is being investigated!
Since 1.-THE Big Sleep Hollywood has
scheduled '"The Big Heart The Big Story"
The Big Two and 1.-THE Big Haircut i.
Ted O'Gorman, asst music critic cot a New
York gazette), is saying thell with it. He's
going to sea commercially as skipper Of his
own skiff +. Selznick's big film, Duel in
the Sum- will have its initial public showing
during the inauguration activities Of Presi-
dent Aleman. He requested it Peggy
Guggenheim of the Mad Arty Millions is
backing three sucrealist films now being
made in Manhattan The December Crime
Club selection will be "Pick Your Victim
by Pat McGerr. Her name is Patricia NC
Gerr, but a member of the McGraw-Eil staff
told the selection group the book would sell
better If readers thaw't it was by a man.
The Saga of a Celebrity" according to the
Miami Herald: HE struggles 10 gain recog-
milton; the public makes him famous and
rich; people depend on him for entertainment;
he %retires" No rich celebrity ever re-
tires, honeychile., He invariably is reading
a script Or waiting Cor someone to come TO
his terms. He finally winds up playing the
Olympia 4-a-day) in Miami The Sate-
vepee's good-timing: A recent issue had a
cartoon showing a couple in a swanky road
Ster Tho uo1 crackinc. ssYOl1 must hp q very