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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1944
Page
7
Walter Winchell is on vacation so guest columnists fill this Broadway tea of nightlife and showbiz chatter. The column promises insider color on stars, stages, and Industry gossip from New York’s theater scene.
A lively inspection of the La Vie Parisienne club reveals debt and tax troubles ending its run as city authorities seize back sales tax receipts. The piece weaves through showbiz figures, political mentions, and social shoptalk, noting patrons, performers, and industry fumbles in a bustling postwar entertainment world.
Socialite chatter mentions Charles Sorenson returning from Russia with a 1 500 000 Willys jeep order. GRAY sings at the Copacabana then dines with Macero in El Morroco. Sammy Renick quits restaurants, mingles with Jerry Higgins. Bette Cannon trains to sing overseas for the troops. Maggi McNellis hides coded messages for Clyde Newhouse on broadcasts. Eleanor Hall and Lt. Fletcher Godfrey reemerge publicly. Peggy Batley dines with bridge ace Fred Kaplan at Armando's. Prince Olaf and Princess Martha seen at the Zanzibar in plain sight.
A brief line reflecting on parental restraint and habit as a man matures. It contrasts a father’s need to announce his whereabouts with a child’s similar habit, suggesting growing up doesn’t erase simple routines. The tone feels like a regional, observational aside from a larger narrative.
Courteous patrons at a dining venue hail a waiter who unknowingly served royalty. Nearby a regal dress-model negotiates with a buyer and issues orders for a Bourbon as the scene unfolds in refined restraint.
Chairman May of the house military affairs committee expressed little chance a separate committee investigation of the Pearl Harbor disaster would be granted. He said the army and navy are already investigating and should handle the matter.
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