Moonlit Broadway Dreams and Gossipy Midtown Notions
Walter Winchell style verse sets a soft nocturnal Broadway mood. The column bundles celebrity chatter from ACES ABOUT TOWN and ALLIES IN OUR ALLEY, with Harriman, Vera Zorina, Betty Allen, Constance Bennett, June Havoc, Estelle Winwood, and Somerset Maugham among names. MIDTOWN Vignette and MEMOS OF A MIDTOWNER tease relationships, digs, and showbiz overlaps in New York’s social scene.
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U. S
Averill Harriman
Vera Zorina
Betty Allen
Dream
William Rhinelander Stewarts
Constance Bennett
June Havoc
Estelle Winwood
Richard Barthelmess
Hollywood
Park Avenue
Somerset Maughm
Bug juice and war time culture in a home front recap
A lively wartime column catalogs a GI kitchen quirk with bug juice as the beloved but indefinable drink. It notes August reads, radio programs, show listings from New York venues, a Purple Heart moment, and local celebrity trivia including sports figures and entertainers.
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G. I
Har
el Alamein
Phil
Stern
Park Central
Charles Lucas
Charlie
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Don Wahn
Mocambo
Charlie Morrison
Bob Benchley
Bennett Cerf
Fanny Hurst
Irvin Cobb
Fanny
Golly
Cobb
Hurst
Bob Dunn
United Artists
Jane Powell
The
Flicker
MGM
Selznick
Charles R. Rogers
Whiskers
PaTpately
Sup Lo
Harper's
Sumner Welles
Universal
Deanna Durbin
Jerry Bergen
Club 18
Diana Manners
Park Central Lounge
Washington
WMCA
Joy Hodges
the Majestic
Union Square
Phil Stern
el Guet
Greenwich Village
Gjon Mill
Camerace
Lenore Lemmon
Columbia
Bobby Socks
Larry Adler
U.S
Decca
John Kirby
Ed Levy
New York Yankees
J. B. Crossley, Optician
Third ST. SE
Iowa Theater
Tru-Site Optical CO
Zenith
Michael Karl Goetz
M. K. Goetz Brewing Company
Goetz
Saee
Goetz Country Club
Millestone
A. K
GERZ
Pilsener Beer
Killian Company