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Show His m U 1 L.-.l,.j"t--'-h i Alan Playing the Typewriter: From the Headlines: "Krivitsky Slain by Reds in 1941, Chambers Says" . . . From this col'm of Feb. 17, 1941: "New Yorkers Are Talking Talk-ing About: How only two months ago Gen. Krivitsky (re-entering the U. S. via Canada after a year's wait for permission) sang lustily to his wife and child as they crossed i the border. And how chums now say: 'Why a man so happy two months ago should kill himself, we can't understand.' " "Lend an Ear," the new revusl-cal revusl-cal click at the National Theater, was showered with many posies the most quotable orchid being John Chapman's: "It is so good it does not need any names to carry it but should make some!" . . . Song hit man D. Rose's latest ear-dorable ear-dorable ditty is "Manhattan Square Dance" a hippity-hoppity tune. . . . Most chuckle-worthy episodes in the film, "Paleface," are the crossfires cross-fires between Bob Hope and Jane Russell. . . New Yorkers raving about the Yuletide choral music in Grand Central depot and the Christmas Christ-mas trees decorating Park Avenue with Rockette Girl-West Point precision. pre-cision. . . . They are also hurrahing hurrah-ing the Music Hall's annual reprise of "The Nativity," an eye-filling spectacle. . . . Will Rogers' sharpest sharp-est sarcastickle, aimed at the reviewers: re-viewers: "All it takes to be a drama critic is two seats on the aislel" Why producers get migraine headaches: A full page ad in Variety reprints a swellalujah review for a movie which appeared ap-peared In its Hollywood daily. But in the same issue Variety's New Yo:k critc raps it! Proving Prov-ing yoif can't buy a not ce with an ad which founder Sime always al-ways argued Have another illusion shattered: Despite Lassie's Las-sie's girlish monicker she's a he. Egad, a ca.line female impersonator! im-personator! . . . Collier's publisher pub-lisher Chenery wires that the mag isn't for ale and that he's sure we "wouldn't knowingly publish incorrect information." He also says he counts on "our" sense of fairness for a correction. correc-tion. We wish we could say the same for Collier's. One of the tastier lookie-cookies In the flickers is Geraldine Brooks. She can also act. . . . This is the time of the year when gazettes and mags waste space listing the best-this-or-that-of-the-year. . . . The hoary feature should be bottled and peddled as a sleeping potion. . . . Television's progress. has many radio gee-whizzers jumpy. . . . There will always be room for radio ra-dio programs, however. . . . The showfolks' "bible" notes that because be-cause of technical obstacles 40 per cent of the nation will always be without televiz. . . . The animal wisecrackers in the cartune called "Hiawatha" make it one of the best pen-and-inkspirations. An ABC commentator (out of the Capital) reported that Presidential Army aide Harry Vaughan "tossed all the protests into the wastebas-ket." wastebas-ket." The 250.000 American Gold Star families must have winced if they heard that. . . . We reminded Vaughan that no person holding office of-fice can accept a foreign" medal without permish of the congress. . . . Vaughan's alibi is that "nobody compla ned" when Argentina med-al'd med-al'd Generals Bradley, Devers and others (It eluded us). . . We reported re-ported that Argentina (during the war) helped kill U. S seamen and Hhers by permitting Hitler and Mussolini's Mus-solini's ships to refuel in Argentine waters and to protest to the White House about Vaughan's decoration . . So he "tossed the protests into a basket." . . . Gold Star families, please send this to the President. Bob (CBS) Troufs deft handling of bis query-and-answer shindig ("Who Said That?") keeps it quizip-py. quizip-py. . . . Jimmy's Duranting is always giggle-getter. But the lithping ker-rickter ker-rickter on bis program is strictly ho-humor. ho-humor. . . . Does the afjable Spike Jones ever listen to playbacks of his radio iokes? Oh, Spike! You need a joke. . . . The girls tell you the most expensive perfume is "loy." I One more broadcast for the finest Bponsor we ever had, Andrew Jer-gens Jer-gens . . . Sixteen full years. . . Started Dec. 4, 1932. . . . He's a loyal Republican and he never edited edit-ed this New Dealer once. . . The few differences of opinion were caused by us not by Mr. Jergens . . Once during an argument (over the teletypes between New York and his home in Florida) we yipped: "No more Lotions of Love!" . . . With seven seconds till microphone time, he kidded us out Df it with this memo: "Now, now. Walter, put some on and make it smooth! " .... Thanks for the pa tience, the understanding and the cooperation to get the news to the people. Mr. Jergens. Russia expects us to recognize her rights In Europe and overlook over-look her lefts in America. And then there's the most exciting show stealing of them all the way Harry Truman stole the show Election Elec-tion Night. |