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Last week Columnist Rose, who uses a young advertising man named Lee Rogow as a legman-but needs no ghostwriter-wondered if he was getting read. To wangle fan mail, he offered a free champagne supper for the ten best lists of the top ten "glamor-pusses of 1946." (In his own, he tucked in Wife Eleanor Holm, onetime swimming champion.) His take in four days: 7,400 letters...
Last week, besides his three-a-night routine at the Copacabana supper club, Peter Hayes also: 1) began a four-a-day run at the Roxy Theater (thereby upping his weekly take to $4,000); 2) quit radio writing, acting and singing (because he wanted time to sleep); 3) landed a principal comedy role in the Nunnally Johnson-George Kaufman fall play Park Avenue; 4) was offered, but had to refuse because of previous commitments, the serious Eddie Dowling role in The Glass Menagerie road company; 5) received a $30,000 offer to do one movie for International Pictures...
Nice scenes and bits: the Brothers cramping more & more tables onto the already crowded dance-floor of a supper club; the extraction, from a de luxe wine bottle, of a cork so gigantic that it leaves no room for wine; Groucho's love scenes with the femme fatale, interrupted by innumerable moves from room to room, and as gruesomely encumbered (with roses, iced champagne and all the paraphernalia of sophisticated seduction) as an old-fashioned family picnic...
...Milan, where St. Ambrose preached of peace and Leonardo painted his Last Supper, a handsome young bandit, Ezio Barbieri, was on trial last week for his part in the April revolt at San Vittore prison. A woman shouted to Barbieri that his newborn baby weighed 8½ Ibs. Modern Milan's son shouted back across the courtroom: "Is the Tommy gun included in that weight...
...skeletal, sad-eyed women were preparing a watery gruel for supper, composed of green weeds and splintery, hard rice husks...