1669-3 Social, Society,& Local News 1946-1993 •
Walter jWincl,ell
In New York
Alan About Town
One of the Irving Berlin heiresses and a Park Ave. socialite ii.'
may be Princess Elizabeth-Prince Philip'd...Jackie Miles and Lee
Dennis have been secretly sealed for 3 months...The Woody Her.
mans would like to meet•the unfunny practical-joker, who planted t
that Ava Gardner "gag." Woody met Ava once years ago and
h.an't since...A new Wall Street scandal is expected via a probe
of the 1946 sugar-beet seed crop. Two Wall Street firms allegedly
. holding up the badly needed crop for a price tilt...Treasury agents ,',.
will inspect safety deposit boxes and bank accounts of leading
jockeys...From this col'm of Nov. 21st: "A scandal may break
about certain football games being fixed." •
Washingtongue-waggers will betcha the Bilbo case will fold
because the Senate Is allowing him "Senatorial Courtesy"...They
insist Bilbo won't be convicted, removed or unseated, if the "Most
Exclusive Gentlemen's Club in the World" (the Senate) can help
it..."As it would open the gates for trouble for themselves"...
Well, I don't bleev It...The Repubs will take every advantage of {' '
another blackball for the Dumbocrats, of which Bilbo is'top Dums,
along with Rankin and others—who gave the Party a bad name—
it was a pipe for the Repubbers to romp in...Pat, the pithy head.
line-shouter (at Collins and 23rd in Miami Beach) yelled: "Talmadge
Dead, Long Live Bilbo!" Pedestrians howled.
Watch for a headline involving a General Post Office inspector,
allegedly nailed as a bookmaker's stooge. He is being fired . . II-2.
Broadway not-so-wisenheimers now call that 56th Streeter "poison"
(Paris Green, that is)...The blonde reported by the papers as an r
amnesia victim calmly walked out of Bellevue Thursday..,The i.•
Flee Dept. has banned Christmas trees from hotel lobbies'as fire
• hazards. It's about time...Life's Little Jokes: The Hotel Winecoff
(Atlanta) was booked to capacity that awful night. Many of the r',4‘
folks who couldn't get rooms there were sent to hotels around the
corner--on Luckie Street!...Today's short story (Courtesy West ?'
' 45th Street theatre marquees): "The Playboy of the Western
World"..."The Fatal Weakness"..."Born Yesterda f r
Your Gun"..."Life with Father"...Heheheh. y Annie Get
Hollywood writer Joe Erens told the crowd (at Olin's) of a
night spot owner who was singing the Broadway Bloozees..."Such
trouble!"he intoned. "Can't get food, can't get booze, can't get tat- •
ent, can't get customers"..."Well," asked a bored listener, "why. r
inell don't you close?"..."Can't get a lock!" was the retort.
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Coasters hear rumors of a merger between Mary Brian and Para-
mount film cutter George Tomasinna...And that H. Kurnitz, the ',
H'wood writer, will hop East shortly to wed Pat England, actress i
...Linda Darnell may have to undergo surgery when "Amber" is
done...This is the first time Hollywood (at fever pitch over
Academy awards) held back their best films till recently...They t; '!
are betting on "Humoresque," "The Yearling" and "Best Years,"
etc...It's a lad for the Eldridge Peckhams. Pop directs the Jo Stat. •
ford programs...It's a ten-pound ditto for the J. Ohrbachs at Dor
tors Hosp. Pappa's the dept. storekeeper, and mama is the former
Gladys Otey of Columbus, Ohio...Jim Farley says all that the •t •
Democrats need is new blood...Nh-nh,Jim. Just a New Deal.
From the newspapers on Bilbo's trial: "Then he let go at Collins.
Called him the most 'thoroughly, completely, and everlastingly
condemned,damned and repudiated man in the history of Mississippi
politics'"...And "Collins' lies against me brought about Collins' •'._
defeat In every county in Mississippi and helped most to elect me!"
Very intristing, very...It seems as if 'twere only yesterday that
Bilbo and his sec'y, Terry (and the Pirates),'and Collins (and all
the others in the Southland) told the Associated Press: "The thing
that elected Bilbo was the Northerners' interference—especially
Winchell. If Winchell butted out of it, Bilbo couldn't have been
ele '...Merry Christmas and Happy Nothing.
Miami Beach hotels (along the beautiful beach) are booked
solid...The first casualty among Miami night spots (The Frolics)
folded after a week, with Margie Hart headlining, hut even Marj
couldn't save it...Another beach smart spot, with a big show (not
the Copa, Latin Quarter, Kitty Davis' or Beachcomber), Is expected
to shutter any minute.The above named had packed premieres, plus
excellent shows...Stone Crab Joe's (which attracts the big names •,
from Washington, Hollywood and elsewhere) looked like official
Washington the other night, led by Bob Hannegan...Don Richards
(who governs the Famous Door) will remarry his former bride, t'
Jane Griffith, next month...The Roney-Pleasure's host, Neal Lang,
can't understand why anyone is complaining.
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