On Broadway Faces About Town: Van Johnson having his sox and undies selec ted for him (at Abercrombie & Fitch) by his Baby Dalya. . . . Linda Dar nell buying a movie mag at 50th and Broadway, the whistle .top tor wolves. . . . "Singapore Sal (at Leon & Eddie's) admitting to & Cushing III, that her name is Jane Bishop and that she once was Jane Gale . . Katharine Cornell airing air-ing her pooches along Vth Aye. Barbara Hutton dining in the Hapsburg with Count Czermn. . . Russian Princess Stephanie Dorow-ski Dorow-ski strolling through Rumpelmay-er's. Rumpelmay-er's. She's in her 70s. but you can see traces of her girlish beauty. Fio LaGuardia reading a Broadway Broad-way col'm while waiting his turn on the Garden rostrum dirnng the FEPC rally. The Word Weavers: Kaymu .u Swing summed up Churchill s speech (via his microphone) with this: "The essence of what he proposes is division, not unity. . Mr Ickes whittled some well-sharpened opinions around the Chicago Round Table. He admonished that the first step in preventing another global blood-bath is for Americans to solve their own puzzles. . . One commentator noted that the solons who voted against the war vets housing program "are iTeatmf heroes like hoboes." . - AvereU Harriman's radioratory fell easy on the ears. Communism, he said, is not a threat, but a challenge and "the best way to meet that challenge is to improve our democracy." democ-racy." . . . Evidence that surveyors survey-ors of radio listening are pretty close: The new Hooper lists this Sunday-nighter at 19.3. . . . The Crossley puts it at 19.2. The Cinemagicians: Good to the last tear-drop, "Sentimental Journey" Jour-ney" is a misty-eyed opus that goes over with a sigh. Lovely Maureen O'Hara heads the ticker-tuggers. . . . "Shock" is another shivery orb-popper orb-popper which peppers the spine with tingles. . . . Edward G. Robinson Robin-son lend-leased his talent to a British Brit-ish pulse-hopper: "Journey Togeth- er." A meiler-auier. . . . u-torious u-torious Lone Wolf" is a run-of-the-millodrama. . . . "Riverboat Rhythm" has one or two juke-able lilts, but most of it is a rhapsody in blah. . . . "You Can't Do Without Love" is a worse advertisement for love than Reno. The Funnies: Speaking of dramatic dra-matic critics, as some of us have all week, one of them was asked what he thawt of a new play. . . . "Very refreshing," he said. . . . "That's swell," responded one of the authors. "You really found it refreshing?" re-freshing?" . . . "Yes," said the reviewer, re-viewer, "I felt like a new man when I woke up!" Critics usually have the last word and the last laugh. But there have been times when make-believers have flattened their belittlers. . . . Some years ago a player was roasted roast-ed by a Philadelphia play reporter. report-er. He promptly called him and snapped: "How do you expect to hurt me with your review when your whole paper couldn't hurt Roosevelt?" Quotation Marksmanship: I. Morais: He goes around with a far-away look in his eyes. . . . Disraeli: Dis-raeli: The defects of great men are the consolation of dunces. . , D. L. Moody: Character is what you are in the dark. ... I. Elin-son: Elin-son: I spell it ArgenTNTina. . . Rex Stout: She opened her handbag hand-bag and dug into it like a terrier. . . . John Moore: A bee was busily scolding a flower. ... A child's definition: My memory is the thing I forget with. ... p. Brito: How about calling it Hunter UNOversity? . . . Anon: Ignorance and Intelligence Intelli-gence both start with I. . . . G Drake: Of course time flies." Yoti would, too, if someone was trying to kill you. . . . Anon: Experience makes a man wiser but leaves a woman a complete wreck. The producer of a flop once Button-holed Bob Benchley and de manded: "Who do you think you are? J Benchley quietly replied: "I am I cntic' w"ch means that u every man and womm j pre., an opinion. The difference is h . Pr6SS my opinions Publicly and get paid for it." Critic-baiting V7n ancleM Rub a sens Uve egQ Uie m ."padir Horn and tolerance After n Wl Pianist's first rechal i Z -eral critics c 'mSCr editor edi-tor graciously offered Vh newspape t,,1 epC0JUM1,,S W could repfy. But L "rW-musician "rW-musician turned I Cm lT wyng: "It Is best tht m? r' against me and I rIn Write them." plnv Mljist