The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-02
YOUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT
Walter WincheII
STAGE ENTRANCE

Never Learn parade. Racetracketeers report
the boobies of cold cash she's been plunging
on the Also Rams. . No matter what anyone
says about the nags, they are running true
to form at Belmont. Isolationist Gin a field
of seven) came in last. Louis Calhern.
star OF Magnificent Yankee" recently won
an award for best performance" Next day
he was rejected as narrator for the 'Caval-
cade OF America program. The Marques
Of Queensbury's jitterbugging is the talk
among m~id-toWners. He's expert at it. il.
How Tempus Fugits Dept: Victor Borge's
new contract stars him above Benny Good
man. The billing is tricky, to wit: 1.-THE Victor
Borge Show Starring Benny Goodman" :.
Ex-Ambassador to Russia Averell Hartman
IS quoted by lntlmates as saying: They (the
Russial.s> are at war With us-but We don't
know IT." Sugar Chile Robinson, the baby
~boogy-wcogy wonder, now gets SIS, 1000 a peri.
Are Omen working on a Ney Jersey radio
character? He a~llegedly deserted four wealthy
Wldders besides the Army. Variety's Abel
and Grace Green celebrate their merger ann'y
and his birthday June 8. :. Blackface Eddie
Nelson is a subject for the feature editors.
He's celebrating his 40th year in show biz at
the Metropole Cafe. Those soundies which
pop up now and then on juke-boxes are being
sold tor $3.50 each for home use. They list
everything from old-timer Gus Van rendering
"McNamara's Band to 'Luba Malina" ling
ing Strip Polka. Luba, by the way, is a
sensaysh ON the Coast. 20ths director. John
Brahm. is in town inspecting Old Vic t%roupers
and seeing plays. He is visiting his ex-wife.
Dolly Haas, and her new groom, all 3 being
adults. B'way shows expect over 100 con-
v~entions this Summer.
Call Me Mister" a hit, raised its prices
offof$ t1a c1Jn1r,, ~
will seek a tilt to show that there's no hard
feelin's. Robert Maxwelps speciality at the
Blue Angel is different. He plays a hot
harp. Met Opera star Leonard Warren
spurned a million S offer to star in a stream
lined version of Pagliotch on the Main Drag.
A night club star has paid agents plant
ed in the audiences to keep an eye on bus
boys and waiters-to see that they are "Op-
plowdink." Larry Brooks. star of Song
of Norway" has been chosen to MARBLE at
the Fathers Day Assn luncheon on the 9Th
at the Penn. Hes a bachelor.
Mrs. Marie Wilson, the Kansas City house
wife (she was a plump 1870 and shed so lbs.
to win the Beauty Your Figure c"ontest),
has retrieved a dozen lbs. dining at the night
spots in the first eight days. Have fun lady.
. . A little more than q year ago Monica
Boyar, the lark from the Dominican Republic.
was getting sos weekly at the Park Central
lounge. Monica just engaged her own pianist
Charles sherrilD whom she pays SITS.
21s Mack flew to Beverly Hills to be with
his wife and tots. Off-setting rumors of a
rift. . BUDDY Walker at the Mardi Gras
was among those who started with Jessel,
Cantor, Ell al, in the Gus Edwards days.
Betty Hensel was highly amused at the items
linking Cary Grant with such-and- such giving
New York a twirl." Betty's Hooper with
Mr.. Grant. take it from an authority ON the
subject, is the high
Patsy Ruth Miller, whose Windy City, re-
Gently tried its wings on the road. has COM
pleted Il new play-"Sister Elena by title.
Insiders hear that an oil sponsor, knowing
Blng won't work for money anymore, offers
him a well! Now if someone would only offer
us a lotion pump. 9 Visitors from London
say they can't savvy why critics enjoyed
Henry V"-since it got a lukewarm greeting
in England. Part OF the publicity build-up
for Kenny Delmar (Sen. Claghorn, that Isl,
when he trains west to star for Bryan Foy's
new company, will be to ried only on Southern
Pacific choo-choos. Remember Harold
Minsky Of the famed Minsky freres, special
in the strip-tease burlesk shows on And
street? You don't? Well, he's in the Venetian
blind business now. 81. Kit Carlisle bought
hltty Iarl1Sle that mink.
Producers of Dear Ruth drumming for ages
and making a fortune in the Broadway arena)
have been able to collect only 81, 900 on the
cinema rights to date. The rest, a sizeable
mint, is knotted in litigation. The library,
dining room and ballroom sets used in Para
mounts "The Searching Wind are the in
teriors OF the Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth
Avenue. The studio bought them for Sc, 900
at auction and reassembied them in H'wood
Cor only $50, O00, Paramount stockholders will
be thrilled to learn. What was that huge
thing Diosa Costello showed in a columnist's
face at the La Conga ringside? That Earl
Wilson has all the fun! Hard to Blee~
Item: An ex-AAF captain, with 30 missions
over Tokyo, is reported working at the 40o
as a bus-boy.
Dolores Gray and her famed legs will d.
vorce Are You with IT." on the 18th
The purchase of ~allegedly Struggled gems
from Belgium may get several headliners in
a mess. Those who've seen Eugene
ONelPs The Ice Man Cometh'' tell Won that
the censors will have to study all definitions
OF art or sharpen their scissors. DANNY
haye Will not do a B'way show. his managers
say, despite published data. He will do per-
Sonal APPS. until the Kaye image arrives
around Yuletime. David Terry, who's got
d Sz seat for the Louis-Conn fight. wonders if
Mike JACOBS provides the radar set or do
you nave to bring your own? Russell