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Show 9b The New York Express: New York Novelette: She used to walk with a preoccupied air through the downtown East Side streets In : Manhattan. . . Not disdainfully or i proudly, but with the fierce deter-I deter-I mination of the very young. . . She i knew these streets and the people, and she hungered to know more. . , i After studying dancing many years she became expert at the art, and when a big B'way show was being i organized she applied for the Job of putting on the routines. . . The producers pro-ducers took her on, and the notices singled out "the wonderful dance" which highlights the hit's theme. . . The hit is the musical version of Elmer Rice's "Street Scene". . . The dance?. . . The trilling number of two street kids. . . The choreog- j rapher? . . . Little Anna Sokolow, Who had all the critics asking: "How could she have so truly captured cap-tured the flavor of squalid city streets?". . . "It's simple," says Anna, "when you've been part of Miem." Manhattan Murals: The Broadway dance hall which advertises: ad-vertises: "Most Exclusive Place In Town Everbody Welcome" . . .Francois, a waiter at the Soho cafe, who comes to work In Immaculate attire plus spats, diamond stickpin, cane, bouton-niere. bouton-niere. . . The window-long sign on the canopy of a shuttered, boarded-np fruit market at 46th and 6th. It reads: "Never closed!". . . The bootblack on 49th street who keeps a copy of Variety available for struggling actors who can afford a shine but not the two-hit show-bible. Lament of a Broadway Press Agent (By Art Franklin): How! tense he scans the papers nights I and days. . . An adult mind he ; "presstitutes" for pelf. . . How often ' does he swear to coin a phrase. . . That's good enough to credit to him-; him-; self. . . Investing ebbing ingenuity ... To build some small-time . crooner, club or band. . . How piti-: piti-: ful the sum gratuity. . . That keeps ! some inept act from being panned . . .He camouflages talent "medi-! "medi-! oke". . . With touches of a genius at ! his game. . . And if he strains I enough some third-rate "joke" will cash his clippings in for movie ! fame. . . The simple fact Is this for he alone. . . Can lick his client's I "flops" except his own! Talk about tough breaks: The cinema, "Nora Prentiss," was filmed before the OTDR rage afflicted the nation. One character charac-ter in the movie Is named Richard. Rich-ard. During one episode another begs him to open a door. . . It's supposed to be serious sequence but you can't blame the audience audi-ence for howling. Bigtown Smalltalk: Paul Mantz broke the coast-to-coast record with his plane, "Blaze of Noon," a stunt i to put the film (same name) on the front pages. But "Betty-Jo" got the headlines. Ladies first, y'know. . . . Broadway show gels sizzling (nice weather for it, ladies) at the story Quoting director John Murray An- j derson as grousing: "I'd rather I work with elephants than show ! girls" . . . The very old song. "Last j Night on the Back Porch" (a Johnny Long platter) has been banned on all networks because of Its naughty wordage. . . . Danny Kaye (who got close to three million in four years of film making) took four weeks of personal apps to raise tax coin. ... At least 10 of the nation's youthful political white hopes happened to match notes the other day. They found that Mayor O'Dwyer had told each "confidentially" "confiden-tially" that he was grooming him to be his successor. Such a letdown. B'way Confucius: Real Love Do Not Have Happy Ending. It Do Not Have Any Ending. The Intelligentsia: John Steinbeck's Stein-beck's new novel, "The Wayward Bus," was dictated onto records, which a typist then transcribed. Nice best-selling work, if you can get it. . . . John Horsey, father of "Bell for Adano" and "Hiroshima," is incommunicado in Florida, working work-ing on a new best-seller. . . . Some of Edna Ferber's most glittering literary nuggets have been put between be-tween covers in "One Basket". Mary Martin, the star, gives "bath parties" nearly every night for London Lon-don friends (there) who have no tub or water. . . . "The Yearling." after a five-week stand, will be pulled nut of Radio City Music hall. "Too sad." Hit films at that theater -usually run twice as Imo Sallies In Our Alley: Did Horace Stoneham (boss of the Giants) tell midtowners Babe Ruth would be offered a big job in baseball? Herbert Hoover says a billion dollars dol-lars is needed to feed the Germans, who have "sunk to the lowest level known in 100 years of western history." his-tory." Overlooking, of course, the level maintained by the Germans in their concentration camps and crematories. . . . Wanna know why swank spot waiters are so uprjity? A survey revealed that they average $8.5.40 weekly in tips. |