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Show Farm About Town: Senator Bob Wagner and kin standing in the long queue in front of the Rivoli for almost al-most 30 minutes to see "Foreign Correspondent" . . . Ralph Bellamy Bella-my wearing a Roosevelt button In Jimmy Kelly'g place, which is not only smart but safe in Kelly'g . . . Gypsy Rose Lee reading the first 15 pages of her first book, "The G String Murder" to Life photogger Eliot Klisofon, in the Stawklib. Dou-bleday-Doran will pay her 20 cents per $2 copy . . . Leelee Pons, with a tan from Honolulu . . . Broadway's Broad-way's own Wilkie (Mahoncy) who ghosts B. Bernie's quips . . . Billy Rose, Franchot Tone, Myron Selz-nick Selz-nick and other leather-lungers talking talk-ing at once In Moore's and not one listening to the other. Sallies in Our Alley: Judge Jean Nathan, the fussy first-nighter, was in one of those heated discussions in the Algonk dining room when owner Frank Case passed. "What's Mr. Nathan so excited about?" he inquired of a waiter . . . "He's talking talk-ing about the war," was the reply, "he doesn't seem to like it!" . . . MUton uerie, wno nas innernea ine late J. Osterman's col'm in Variety, was gleeful over the assignment. "Imagine," he Imagined, "I've written writ-ten only one column and I'm booked for Loew's State already!" . . . CJive Howard's definition of an aging ag-ing ham (one who never played the Palace): "A would-be Has-Been" . , . And then there's the one about the Stock Exchange messenger who was held up in broad daylight and robbed ... Of 35 Willkie buttons! Midtown Vignette: It happened recently re-cently at the Hurricane, weeks before be-fore Betty Allen took over the Ethel Merman role in "DuBarry Was a Lady" . . . Betty's lifetime ambition ambi-tion was to appear on Broadway . . . When she warbled at the Park Centralthat Cen-tralthat was on Seventh avenue and "DuBarry" is on Forty-sixth street, a whole half block from the Grandest Canyon . . . And then came the chance at the Hurricane for only five nights, but It was Broadway at last! . . . Well, her premiere night was glorious . . . Telegrams from everybody in "Du-Barrv." "Du-Barrv." and friends sent Dosles and fellers sent good wishes and they all came and packed the place, too . . . What a thrilling night it was for her . . . After the show (she stopped it cold) they hugged her in person and she was the toast of the town . . . Then everybody went places with their boy friends and Betty wound up the loneliest gal In town because nobody asked for a date. New Yorchids: The way Dinah Shore renders "I'll Never Smile Again" at the Paramount . . . The Ink Spots' Decca-ration, "We Three" . . . Hugh Bradley's book click: "Such Was Saratoga," which got 105 swelegant reviews . . . Var-ga's Var-ga's lovely blonde In black stepins in the September 15 Esquire . . . Warner's "City for Conquest," Cag-ney's Cag-ney's next . . . Cecilia Ager's literary lit-erary lace on a new film-flop: "It's a heavy light comedy, elfin like an elephant. It capers, trips and falls flat on its face, gets tp, falls down and gives up." Broadway Ballad: He was a wealthy Englishman, prowling around the world for fun. She was a smart Broadway showgirl, prowling prowl-ing around him for profit . . . They met in Montreal, where she was featured fea-tured in a night club, and he fell so hard 'or her that you could have heard his monocle drop ... He lavished her with goodies a bracelet, brace-let, a diamond ring and a proposal, not a proposition . . . Her mother, the stage variety, came up from New York to "manage" the affair . . . Then Came The War and his income from England was suddenly stopped by foreign exchange regulations regula-tions . , . Her maw yanked her back i to New York bracelet, ring and all ... He was left in Montreal broke and brokenhearted . . . For weeks the nightclubs in which he was a good spender "carried" him for meals, while his frantic love-letters to her remained ignored . . . Finally Final-ly he wrote asking for the return of his engagement ring; its pawnshop value might help him pay his rent . . No answer ... In desperation despera-tion he went to the American consul and told his story . . . The consul sent on the information, and today mamma and daughter are in custody custo-dy of the United States for "smuggling "smug-gling a diamond bracelet and ring across the border"! Broadway Casanova says the trouble trou-ble with getting stuck on some other oth-er guy's gal is that you're liable to get stuck with her. Add literary lace, the authorship of which eludes us now: "A political platform is just like the one on the back, of the street car not meant to stand on, just to get in on" . . . E. Cuneo's: "When you see the Vermont Ver-mont hills you look at God Himself!" Him-self!" ... A truck driver's sassy retort to a pedestrian who yelled , curses for almost being run down: "Take it easy, Greasy!" . . . Senator Sen-ator Tydings' comment In congress about conscription: "I would rather have it and not need it, thin need it and not have it!" |