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...luncheon given in his honor by the National Association of Merchant Tailors of America and the Merchant Tailor Designers of America, bigheaded Bachelor Lucius Beebe, most painstaking dude of Manhattan chit-chatterers, declared: "Almost every man has either secretly or patently some feeling for clothes and would indulge his fancy far more lavishly and colorfully were it not for the jealousy, usually expressed in the form of sarcasm, by the women he encounters. ... No woman can stand seeing a man as well or painstakingly dressed as herself...
...week dined at the White House (he in white tie & tails). Contrary to report, Cactus Jack likes the party that the President gives him every year. He attended in 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938. Top members of Congress (Borah, Sheppard, McNary, Sabath, Rayburn, Boland, etc. etc.) were there. But local chit-chat artists were truly swamped two nights later when the Roosevelts entertained the 76th Congress, swamped by the new faces presented and their political implications. At the Congressional Reception, Jim Farley held court in a receiving line...
...that some people without public spirit are hoarding banknotes. Let them be warned that these might be repudiated overnight!" The speech was on such a plane of fury that it sounded as if the No. 2 Nazi wanted more than war upon Czechoslovakia which he contemptuously called "that little chit of a race devoid of culture!" Behind Prague, General Göring said, he saw "Moscow and the eternal Jewish devil's grimace...
Three Loves Has Nancy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). As a Southern chit whose sweetheart has failed to turn up on their wedding day, Janet Gaynor invades New York to bowl over those pillars of penthouse society, Franchot Tone and Robert Montgomery, with naive charm best exemplified when she says grace in a night club...
...Even Chief Justice Hughes has attended functions at the Russian Embassy. But as every good public relations counsel knows, one photograph open to misinterpretation is worth more to the enemy than a barrage of scurrilous speeches. And last week from Germany, United Press relayed just the kind of chit-chat to make such a John Lewis' Soviet Embassy picture thoroughly misunderstood : the Nazi Anti-Komintern was out with an article declaring that in a Moscow museum hangs a map of the future Soviet America, on which the name of Detroit is changed to Lewisgrad...