The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16
YOUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT
WaIter Winchen
BROADWAY BY LAMPLIGHT

Silhouettes About Town: Jennifer Jones, the
star, hating her taxi at the corner of Hudson
and 10th SITS. to gaze at her old home =. Andy
russell, the canary, making The Big City for
the FIRST tlme-and being train-ill all the way.
With his new bride as nurse. .Dinah Shore
and husband legalizing their New York visit
by being seen in the Stork Jack Oakie and
Gene Tunney among the tay-up-all-nighter
spellbound by Geo. Welles' card tricks in Reu-
ben's. Nancy Carroll, who deserted Movie
vile for Manhattan, vainly arguing with a
Nedick'S counterman Cat Lexington and 59th)
to split a hot drug. It's against the rules
he said with finality. Rocky Graziano, the
fight games best new advertisement, being
ogled ut Olin's. Ethel Norman, the North
Star of "Annie Get Your Gum walking her
image IN the Central Parkitecture. Mrs. C.
Vanderbilt, who plans merging with c. A. Mon
roe, ex-Insul exec. They sail for the French
Riviera on Satdee.
Sallies in Our Alley: One of the notorious
bellies zig-zagged into a night club on the arm
of a renowned wolf. Someone remarked that
her husband ought to put ar end to her philan-
dering MAYBE maybe'd a dope, "her
husband won't let her go out alone It
happened in a clip joynt. A waiter complained
to the ooss about a patron whats the mat
ter?" asked the owner. rs he drunk" .
Nope, Wept the waiter, sober Jerry
Lester plans writing a play about Washington.
He'll title it: Harry Truman Slept Here!"
Midtown Vignette: AL Schmid. the Marine
hero who was blinded killing over 200 Japs,
was christened Father of the Year. the other
day at the Hotel Pennsylvania. Before the
ceremonies a gal reporter who apparently
didn't know his GREATNESS history said to him:
81 must leave on another assignment. May
I have a copy of your speech?". ct haven't
any prepared speech said AL. oh, she
oh'd impatiently, this is most movement.
Well, what will you talk about?'. 81 dunno
said the blind hero. Il guess I'll just ad lib like
l did on Guadalcanal."
Memos of a Midnighter: Did the gazettes
make a note of the gems sWiped last week
from the social Mrs. Dodge Sloane?. It's
a boy at the NJ. M. PoWeils. He's the b~arrister
Bernard Miller, VINO gave a song recital
at the Steinway Bldg, is one of the st. Moritz
doormen. Lena Horne will be in Duke Filing
toms 'Beggar's Opera. . Harold Gary is an
added starter in Billion 5 Baby. Nat Olgin
in Int'l News Photos won the top ribbon for the
best human interest shot. One of the promi-
nent show gels was talked out of suicide the
other night. Her parting note would have en-
barrassed several gents.
"" YIN L P1Ob1 L d dOOut
49-year-old Spud Arseaault, the Canadian pros
pector, who hit a gold rhine in the Yellowknife
belt OF Northern Canada. He was recently
brought to N. Y. c. as part of a publicity
splash fer the Congress of Mines. 1t was
youthful David LoWn, ar energetic, ebullient
press agent, who dreamed up the trick of
landing Spud on the front pages. He reported
that Spud's trip to New York was to find a
wife" etc. . The editors from coast to coast
fo1I f~- u ~ ~
night clubs followed. AT the Copa the ''natur-
al tie-up' was found. Her name: Doreen
Easton. Is, of Canada! But the romance
between the rich, grizzled prospector and the
dlmpled Doreen never started. Because
LoWn, the press agent, proposed first. They
were married in Baltimore Tuesday.
Manhattan Murals: Dorothy MackailI. the
former film favorite, passing out those minia-
ture orchids to friends. Her fiance grows them
The famed firms clock (Which gives the
time at the Airlines exhibit on 9th and 52nd)
two hours slow Scrawled placard in a 9th
Avenue haberdashery: BOBBY Sox''.. Sign in
Topsy's Chicken Roost: Not Responsible for
Dates Left Over 10 minutes. The indiffer-
ent-to-the-Weather crowds at the Iceland show
The 18th Street astrologer who horoscopes
animals. Your pet dog, cat or canary for So.
Your wife for 81. The svanky blackfronted
store on 23ro Street, which calls itself: "Artis-
tic Stopreurs." It's a tailor shopi
BigtoNn Side-Show: He wore a Homburg hat
(among other things), and his specs were thick.
He carried a book under a wing as he ankled
into Murphy's saloon at the corner of Third
and 45th. He stood at the bar. He stood
and stood. The barkeeo ignored him for IS
minutes. Finally, one of the regular Gus
toners known as Paper Collar joel tapped
the stranger ON the shoulder He amt gonna
solve you, Mac" said Paper Collar Joe. 'He
thinks you're one of hem intellechewals who
hangs out in Costello's saloon on 44th Street,"
Curtain-Calls: Moro Morales big-time rhum-
band at the Riviera toying with "Rhumba
Rhapsody and anything else. ."Atlanta, Ca"
as p~lattered by the Red Caps. The Blend
Tones via WOR from the Village Barn-thev
lit gracefully. Gertrude Niesen's Decca YER
sion of I'm a Big Girl Now" very sassy.
THE Red Mill'' show. Mara Kims ternsi-
chore at the China Doll Ace Harris Hub
recording of AFTER Hours gentle on the ears.
o. Henry Would Have Enjoyed This One:
Baron Won Kahler, an Austrian wit has been
an insurance man here for years. He was
seated hext to a lovely girl on a bus. She
lced MS attempts to strike up a conversation
Inc Baron suddenly noticed the Empress
Zlta OF Austria in another part of the bus. She
seemed to be having difficulty finding out
winch street thew were nearinC s"YO11r Mo