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ON THE BROADWAY SCENE By Burt Bovar NEW YORK N Y April 30 SPRING FEVER or Tired Blood BloodIts Its spring again and birds are on the wing again and I dont feel like doing a thing again Usually I am anxious to call up Greta Garbo and ask Are you Plone I en ¬ joy asking Tony Ben ¬ nett H o w c u m you dont get your nose fixed I have a lotta nerve But I also have a lotta fun Imperti n en t questions are generally my business and my pleasure But today its different Suddenly I really dont care about Jane Mansfields measurements And Tommy Manville wouldnt get a rise out of me if he called up to say he was marrying one of his exwives for HER money I am dis ¬ interested in Rex Harrison stepping on Julie Andrews laughs at My Pair Lady Or is she stepping on his Someone told me that Mary Margaret McBride of all people is up for the Mike Wallace job on Nightbeat and I didnt even say No kid din I am so hohummy and have mel ¬ lowed so that I havent even got the heart to expose the very famous glamor girl who has warts on her feet I PASSED LINDYS today at lunchtime and didnt even go in to be spielbound at the comics table And the cab driver had the radio on and it was playing Sal Mineos first singing record And I didnt even tell the driver to turn it off How spring feverish can you get I see that Jack Carson is at the Essex House but I didnt call him to find out why I just sat here staring at the typewriter The keys needed cleaning I got a needle and picked the ink out of the little holes in the e and s If you dont do things yourself they just justnever never get done I decided I must snap out of this You just cant be logy in the gossip column business I dialed the phone fastpeppy Mrs Jack E Leonard answered Hi Burt she whispered I cant talk very loud Jacks sleeping We ended that conversa ¬ tion fast She was a BIG help Next on the list I decided should be Marlene Diet ¬ rich Her maid answered and said Miss Dietrich is taking a walk in the park If you want to try to catch her she should be somewhere near the zoo I was getting frantic Could everyone be in this condi ¬ tion I called a noted actors agent Whats new I asked him Oh baby he said I dunno Ive been half asleep here all day I think Ill go home Suddenly something came to him I was at Dannys Hideaway last night Eileen Barton was there with the exhusband Brownie Lasner I was sit ¬ ting next to them when Jerry Levy the agent walked in looked at Brownie and Eileen and said Hiya Brownie Say what are ya doing with Vic Jarmels girl It was getting toward evening Jane and I decided that it was almost a lost cause So we went out for dinner After we had eaten we passed a night club and watched a certain comedian going through his routine Another comic was there He said to us Can yimagine the nerve of this guy He stands there and tells jokes right j in front of my face that he stole from me I wouldnt mind that so much he never bought a joke in his life but what really kills me is he gets mad and starts needling me cause I dont laugh at his act Can yimagine yimagineA A A We came home and the column was still to be written Oh well if youre going to write a dull column youre just going to write a dull column So having rationalized this much I began to do some things which are best done when youre kinda light ¬ headed There were bookshelves to be waxed and a hifi set to be blacklac ¬ quered Suddenly the phone rang It was Jack E Leonard He was full of pep Jane answered the phone and whispered I cant speak very loud Jack Burts sleeping
