Show I a 1 I i WA U Beni t Ballad for Jor Americans American S If you could buy a spot where i you could see How Ho Nature Nature had been lavish in In its art r where w If you could buy a place t i Liberty f Is ever dearest to the human heart I 55 If you could buy the road to tob b happiness J- J With little homes that bordered bordered bordered bor bor- dered on the lane It ft would not take a fool a secand second sec sec- 1 and ond guess I To know that you would buy and buy again r a t If you u could buy contentment t. through the years And love that grows from fine and decent things w If you could buy an armistice from tears And all the grief and woe that battle brings brings- Oh if iJ you could how quickly you'd j I J respond And yet what else is bought with r K ever every bond boud r DON DON WARN WAHN The Magic lagic Lanterns James Cagney Cag- Cag Cagney Cagney ney blew in with Johnny Come Lately his debut as an impresario and he needn't worry about quitting a good job He is breezy and tough as the tramp reporter who Page Ones the towns town's stuffier into being better boys Grace George and Ed McNamara are part of the assets Robert Donat who is paid off in sighs where Sinatra collects collects collects col col- col- col shrieks comes back in The Adventures of which is a stylish dish He plays a British officer of of- fleer risking his precious neck in Czechoslovakia The best place to view the tale is from the edge of your seat seat seat-as as if you had any choice Valerie Hobson Is the girl girl Abbott Abbott Abbott Ab Ab- Ab- Ab bott and Costello go in for Winter sports in Hit the Ice and being the kind of comics they are you know what they hit it with Pola Negri who was strictly a sad-faced sad sufferer in her heyday comes back in a frilly item called Hi Diddle Diddle with Martha Scott Adolphe 1 and June Havoc You'll laugh laugh how how much being up to you Richard Dix vs Jesse James is the theme of The Kansan This rambunctious Western Vestern full of shoot- shoot in irons straight whiskey and a trace of jive is generally satisfactory tory l Midtown l Vignette She is the young oung w wife e of a British naval officer officer officer of of- We Ve overheard her talking with a stranger at the fountain of a midtown drug store While she fed her baby a malted They sent me over here to visit him a little while she said He had never seen the baby She was wasa a water soap-and-water type of girl very girl very little makeup and pretty The stranger asked about clothing rationing rationing ra ra rationing in England I HI dont don't mind she answered red Ive HIve been wearing this skirt and nd blouse for two years every day As she started started started start start- ed to go the stranger pressed a ten-spot ten into her hand Buy something for the baby he said and yourself Oh thank you very much was the reply now I Imay Imay Imay may get a new blouse Manhattan Mural l It was in m the Stork Club Sunday evening A youthful ul sailor without a rating or campaign ribbon was dancing with his little old mother We Ve have never neve seen such a lovely portrait in all our sinful years No other couple on the floor seemed to be enjoying enjoying enjoying en en- themselves as much as this boy and his proud mother She simply beamed beamed and and so did the rest of us taking us-taking taking it all in from frem the ringI ringside ring ring- I side Gosh said a fellow j whose chest is crowded with decorations decorations decorations decora decora- that sailor makes everybody in here look silly The speaker was Lt Bill BiU Crawford a grand guy t himself soon returning to the Pac Pacific fic f- f ic where he helped bomb to splinters splinters spun spun- so many Jap ships Street Scenery The gal cab driver er at Madison and manicuring her nails The A cars slinking along side streets like runners rUm runners rum The new messenger gals at atthe atthe the llie Stock Exchange with NYSE embroidered embroidered embroidered em em- broidered on their jackets jackets and and some of them very nyse The opticians optician's shop on Madison Avenue which describes its orb-glasses orb as giving wing patrons Specs Appeal The rhe dog department in a store ston which h advertises a dog soap as Sounds in the Night At the Stork Hes carrying the torch for himself himself himself him him- self At La Conga Mussolini is no longer lying low low just just lying Louises Louise's Monte Carlo J He has hasa a head l like lie ke a doorknob doorknob any any gal can turn it At Leones Leone's What he doesn't know is certainly going to curt ourt him At the Mayan Absence Ab Absence Absence sence makes the heart go wander Broadway That poster slogan should be changed from Your Country Needs You to You weed Meed eed Your Country 1 |