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Show S lL KBHH Sfoge Entrance: gonja Henie is the newest of the "They Never Learn" parade. Race-tracketeers Race-tracketeers report the boodles of cold cash she's been plunging on the Also Rans. ... No matter what anyone says about the nags, they aft running true to form at Bel-1 mont. Isolationist (in a field of sev. j ! en) came in last. . . . Louis Calhern, I star of "Magnificent Yankee," re- j cently won an award for "best performance." per-formance." Next day he was re-! re-! jected as narrator for the "Cavalcade "Caval-cade of America" program. . . , : The Marquess of Queensbury's jit-I jit-I terbugging is the talk among mid-! mid-! towners. He's expert at it. ... ! How Tempus Fugits Dept.: Victor ! Borge's new contract stars him 1 above Benny Goodman. The billing is tricky, to wit: "The Victor Borge I Show Starring Benny Goodman." j Sugar Chile Robinson, the baby boogy-woogy wonder, now gets $5,000 a perf. I The Magic Lanterns: Jennifer Jones and Charles Boyer are sky-j larkine in "Cluny Brown." This is i a jaunty spoof of the crumbs among the upper crust. The guffaws will ,' pop vest buttons (and strain girdle seams) as Cholly and Jenny whittle capers. . . . "The Glass Alibi" enters en-ters bullet first with a murder mel-ler mel-ler whiz aimed by Paul Kelly. . . . "Badman's Territory" is a right purty prairie saga, several gTades above the usual sagebrush shenanl-gunning. shenanl-gunning. . . . "The Phantom Thief turns out a passable felon fable its tempo won't break any speed laws. . . . "Perilous Holiday" comes through with a pulse-hopper where- in Pat O'Brien makes a hobby of j collecting tingles. . . . "Texas Pan-1 Pan-1 handler" is a cowboy ho-hum on the I range opus. . . . "Behind the Mask" I should put its producers on Easy Street selling apples. . . . "Tokio Rose" by any other name would also smell. Silhouettes in the Times Squarena Mary Livingstone and Portland Hoffa at the Embassy ringside with a couple of radio comedians. . . . Ingrid Bergman giving the new Riviera (across the G. Washington Bridge) added class. . . . George Jean Nathan, the actor-killer, and j gorgeous Jessie Tai-Sing (of the j China Doll) causing cub-rumors at j the Stork. . . . Gloria Vanderbilt j Stokowski disguising her glammer with slax, kerchief and smoked specs on Vth Ave. . . . Fannie Hurst, the novelist, carrying her one-lb. Yorkshire terrier into the Little Vienna. The pooch is gray and blonde streaked, which is the newest new-est hair style. Broadway Side-Show: Ann Richards Rich-ards is a Hollywood actress. . . . When she saw Cornelia Otis Skinner Skin-ner in "The Searching Wind" on Broadway (a little over a year ago) she sent the first fan letter of her life. ... It was a glowing missive, in which she reported how she enjoyed en-joyed the performance, how she couldn't visualize anyone else in the role, etc. . . . The film version of the hit will be seen soon. . . . The Skinner role is played by Ann Richards! Rich-ards! Sallies in Our Alley: The husband hus-band of a famed movie star was dining at the Mocambo with a beautiful beau-tiful blonde, and a ringsider observed: ob-served: "That can't be his wife, can it?" . . . "It's all right." exDlained Met star Ezio Pinza, "it's her understudy." un-derstudy." . . . Last night in Sardi's someone recalled the time Wooll-cott, Wooll-cott, the critic, audibly burp'd at a flop show. . . . "Hmmm," ribbed Broun, "thinking out loud!" Manhattan Murals: The disillu-sive disillu-sive drabness of daytime Swing Street (52nd). ... The candy store which delivers packages in horse-drawn horse-drawn kerridge. Mid-town cops dread seeing it-claim it congests traffic. ... The one-legged war vet I doing an expert rhumba at the Ha-i Ha-i ana-MJdrid. ... The manager for i oaks Fifth Avenue shoe dep't whose name is Mr. Foote. The realty office on East 17th with the notice, "No Apts Available," writ ten In ten languages including Chinese. Chi-nese. ... On the marquee of a rremont Avenue (Bronx) movie theater: "A Guy Could Change" - - "My Reputation." Ethel Barrymore met Lionel on her way out of Sardi's one night in their hey-day. "I just saw John at the bar " she Sangerj"11 he'S behavin ver lohn .II S Strange about seeing John with a drink?" asked Lionel Nothing," sighed Ethel. "But I saw him without one!" enSUnlCe, Barre (Johns talented tal-ented paw) was asked the best way to become a famous actor leaS"1 I3 thC flfSt thto one m"t quened John- "How to .um'.'.' Was the rep- ''How to j The showfolksTBea Lmie Played chemin-de-fer at a Paris ca -1 when she suddenly hiccoughed' anr,"" She francs! Paid her |