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Show WAITER WINCHEU .'. ' ' ' ' w 1 , . - Darts Bring -Bucks - - V . . '- " . . ; - - Right alongside (in print) are toriea about auto accidents. ; Thar appears to be some doubt about aa item we ran that a Southerner Invented an automatic fire alarm system to save hotel guests from dying in flrea. Veri-well, Veri-well, here's his name: Thomas J. Tate, of Talladega, Ala, (about 125 miles from Atlanta). The patent was granted through attorney attor-ney A. Tate Powell (ofWeshlns ton) on April IS, 1943.. The patent number is 2,439,502 . . . Georre W. Morrison wrote 1- Can't Sleep.- which la a book to maks insomniacs laugh, even ' if they can't sleep. It describes 54 methods of Inducing slumber, none of which win work. bravos In "AD My Bona," but Life reveals she is Jobless, living on $26 per week unemployment compensation com-pensation . . . Critic Ward Morehouse's More-house's next book (due In '49) 1s two-thirds done. An informsl hs-tory hs-tory of the stage. , ' Radio's .rlve-sway-program fad ia bound to fade. Looka what happened hap-pened to free dishes (at movies) and bingo -. . . A Gallia Import, They Are Not Angels" (at the Ambassador), is an expert war flicker. Skips the mock heroics. Uppity 'Madison a vs. sales girls never say "girdle." ; Call them foundations ... Gardner Rea's amusing drawing In the New Yorker la what you can call a amartoon. ' Metro, which eonldat make a script out of - Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited." just bought the same author's "A Handful of Dust," which seems twice as tough to put on the screen ... The people who maks op those newspapers used In movies oughts waie up. Ia "Black Bart" several shots of a supposedly sup-posedly 1855 paper contain news of Bart's stagecoach robberies. .'- Wonder If Ginger . Rogers' mother knows what they are doing to her -likeness at fund-raising parties for Hollywood's Unfriendly Ten T One dollar buys three darts which are flung at mi'i caricature on the wall , . . There may be 50 musicals next season, but right now Broadway "angel cake" (backers' coin) Is -at its scariest a . . Fox studio fired a horse for recently throwing Gregory Peck, V . Ton think the tempo of "Sabre Dance" is fast?- "Fiddle Faddle lias such speed It makes "Sabre" seem waltzy . ... The Chicago underworld name for that. slain gangster sounds like It came right out -of . a Runyoa: col'mi "Little Bneeaa""''' " " ' ' ' Newrltesa: Treasury Secjr ' Snyder predicts a. rise of three , . billion in the national debt SowotT We can always make It up peddling peddl-ing guns to our enemies . . . There's a scenario making . the IT wood round in which the president of the U. 8. commits murder . . . Sudden . Thawt: New York bans harmless' pmball games but per mlta pokerina and similar prize-giving prize-giving gadgets on Broadway and along 42nd street . - Newcomer Helena Carter in the film, "River Lady,", has eye-end-sigh appeal . . Bum timing deptr DurocheT'i new book - taunts three former Dodgers managers at a - time when hi flock is floundering In the second division. do you 'think 'being -a movie actress means minks, swimming pools and diamonds? . Well, taJ-ented taJ-ented Louisa Horton recently won |