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Show Lights of NewYork by L. L. STEVENSON Quick Wit: It was early in the morning. Horrified Broadwayites stood watching a young mother who had barricaded herself in a fifth floor hotel room and who was threatening to throw herself and her two children chil-dren from the window. Members of the police emergency squad were handicapped because they had to work without knowledge of the mother. moth-er. A tiny blonde young woman appeared. ap-peared. Sizing up the situation at a glance, she began to sing and dance. Harder and harder she worked. Finally Fi-nally the mother's attention was centered cen-tered on her act. An officer was lowered from the roof and another entered through an adjoining room. The mother and her children safe, the girl, saying she deserved no publicity pub-licity for what she had done, slipped away without revealing her identity. She lives in that hotel and had reached there after completing her night's work as mistress of ceremonies ceremo-nies and singer in the Hotel Dixie's Plantation room. Her name, Dale Roberts. Information: The phone on the desk of the bellboy's captain at the Savoy-Plaza rang and a voice bellowed bel-lowed an order for a radio immediately. immedi-ately. Knowing that there was an important conference of businessmen business-men in that particular suite, the captain cap-tain saw that a bell boy got a radio up there in the shortest possible space of time. In about a dozen minutes, the bell-hop came down grinning. "I gets up there," he informs in-forms the captain, "and what happens? hap-pens? I plugs in the radio and the big shot of the conference grabs the dial and tunes in to WNYC, the city station.- There's a kids' quiz going on and one of 'em is the big shot's daughter. She's good too she knew Theodore Roosevelt was born on Twentieth street here in i New York. None of the rest of them big guys knew that not even her old man." Solution: Lauritz Melchior, heroic tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, is making a picture for M-G-M titled "Thrill of a Romance." Kidded about the title, the Danish singer said he has a friend who is expert on naming pictures. "Titles come to him without any trouble," continued con-tinued Melchior. "He was sitting in a Hollywood restaurant and two fellows fel-lows at the next table were moaning moan-ing because they couldn't find a title for a just-completed film. My friend leaned over and said he'd solve their problem. " 'Are there any drums in the picture?' pic-ture?' he asked. i " 'No,' said the first producer. " 'Are there any bugles?' "'No.' " 'Well, don't you see,' declared my friend. 'There's your title "Without Drums or Bugles".' " , Lady With the Lamp: Ten years ago, Russian born Igor Gorin came to this country and was so stirred ;by the sieht of the Statue of Liberty guarding New York harbor that he applied for citizenship the next day. When he got his final papers years later, Albert Malotte, the composer, heard him recite the Pledge of Allegiance Al-legiance with so much feeling that he set it to music. The piece is now famous. Recently, Undersecretary of the Navy Bard spoke at a bond rally for Americans of foreign origin at the Statue of Liberty. In the shadow of the statue, Igor Gorin stood up and sang Malotte's Pledge of Allegiance. Turnabout: While radio artists usually are eager to get to Hollywood Holly-wood and make pictures, few screen stars would leave the film capital to go into radio. Such wasn't the case with Victor Jory. Jory was all set to return to camera acting a few weeks ago when he was offered the part of a swashbuckling adventurer adventur-er in the CBS show, "Dangerously Yours." He was so impressed with the role that he has renounced all flicker appearances for the year to come. So what? Well, though the program is new, Jory is beginning' to assume the proportions of a radio ra-dio matinee idol. Not only has he received thousands of requests for autographed photographs but also 11 proposals of marriage. End Piece: Oscar Levant, who at times can be uncommunicative, was i chatting quietly with Walter Grea-za Grea-za when two women barged up and without so much as a how-do-you-do, one tapped Levant on the shoulder. shoul-der. "I just made a bet here with my friend, Mamie," she said, "that I can make you say at least four words." "Madam,"' replied Levant, "Mamie "Ma-mie wins." Bell Syndicate WKU Features. |