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Show Lint From a Blue Serge Suitt Movietown is now offering bundles of cash to William Saroyan trying to get some of the manuscripts of plays he once tried to give them gratis . . . Not all the Johns at the Winter Garden of Eden stage door are dudes. Most of them are in uniform uni-form ... A short time ago a Broadway Broad-way theater featuring vaudeville was unusual . . . Now a theater without vaudeville is an oddity . . . Visiting film stars and other Hollywolves always al-ways tell New York reporters that they come here to see the shows and enjoy a vacation ... By a strange coincidence they are always arriving In The Big Burg when their latest pictures are . . . The Ringling Circus Cir-cus is always the best show in New York outside, of course, of the show The Big Town puts on itself . . . Tune-Pan Alley slaves are still trying try-ing to dream up a ditty with the appeal of an "Over There" . . . ! Broadway comedians are in a wrist-slapping wrist-slapping war, accusing each other of thefting quips and other lah-de-dah ... An original comic is one who filches a gag first from Joe Miller ... Or Joe Column. The too bands never worry about the draft. They can always get enough over-age tootlers because they pay hefty wages . . . Tosca-nini's Tosca-nini's zowie version of "Stars and Stripes Forever" brings out the goose-pimples like a lukewarm shower . . . The years pass, and swing bands continue to shatter box office records. The gloomy set, however, how-ever, still insist the vogue for swing music won't last . . . What happens to the dimes, quarters and smackers you gave to the USO? . . . Well, it costs them merely $100,000 a month to provide entertainment for troops abroad to mention one item . . . What's become of the plans of those movie stars who publicly announced that they would return to the stage when the $25,000 limit was big news! Beginning of the End: Actors who were starving a few years ago are now using their salaries to Invest in the stock market . . . Broadway recaptured some of the flavor of the Texas Guinan era after the Follies opened . . . The gals are pretty, the spenders are tipping well again and the speakeasies (which will be raided raid-ed shortly) are crowded until sunup . . . The only worry the prospering theater managers are having is the shortage of theaters to tenant all the promising shows now on the way . . . The people who are trying to libel the show folks would get a sock in the teeth if they tried knocking the actors to all those men who are grateful to the Stage Door Canteens . . . One of the pet targets of the Parisian Nazis (before France perished) per-ished) was also the stage and screen industry . . . One reason Broadway lures ambitious people: "Dark Eyes," the play that attracted mixed reviews, was peddled to the films for $250,000. Well known actors who quarrel over billing don't mind being anonymous anony-mous in the radio soap-operas. It's the skeleton in their closets . . . When the song, "As Time Goes By," was first introduced many, many years ago constant repetition helped ruin it. Over-plugging is killing it again . . . Funny thing. Some mid-town mid-town places are short of chicken, which isn't rationed, but they have enough steaks . . . Wonder what some shows would do for titters if there were no rationing. What a dull subject for jokes ... In spite of the crowded places, you see relatively rela-tively few drunks. They can't see you, either. Ha, ha . . . The war has made a casualty out of cafe society. Civilization, in short, has made some progress . . . People must be starved for amusement. Some masters of ceremony are not only tolerated by audiences but are actually aDDlauded. Oh. well. It's better than playing with a knife and cutting yourself. Don't ask friends appearing on the stage to get you free tickets. The only way they can get them to the hit shows is to buy them . . . Many former girlesk chorines are now earning bigger coin as charmers in high class musicals . . . The reason you see so many beggars around the show district at curtain time is that they know showgoers are in a better mood . . . Producers used to fight among themselves to collar a backer or "angel." Now angels run after anyone with a manuscript to Invest some of their dough gathering dust in the vaults . . . Some places give you all the sugar you want Others, like SchraflTs, hand you only one lump . . . You don't have to be a genius to discover a hit movie. Most Music Hall clicks were chosen by the votes of employees The critics who cover the Art ol Dancing stated that Zorina's ballei stuff at the Met was "too cold" . . Look, mister. Anyone who can see Zorina in a ballet dress or tights and still get a chill is posilutely dead . . America's First Lady is a big booster of the theater, and so if Missimo Chiang. When Missinu went to college she week-ended in New York mainly to see the shows . Ever see an imbecile? Well, then watch those noisy jitterwhax in theaters who try to annoy the performers per-formers in the stage presentations |
