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Show ALONG BROADWAY WITU WltiCUELL-- Jottings From Here and There : ! And Also Causticommentaries By WALTER WIN CHILL . BA-HART Lily Hart, tha charming mother of Mom Hart (coparcrit of "Jfmj ' Can't Taka It With You." tha pUy hit) waa lolling en th Miami beach. She wtt nplalnlng to friend how much of her talerrtedl J ton's own phlloaophy went into the (how. Her husband, a bit self , conscious, told hi wife to change the subject Hot to boost ao much, Maybe people war bored, etc. "We've every right te talk about Mo," declared Mra. Hart "Why, If It weren't for ue kt wouldn't be herel" Tee, I know," replied Papa Hart, "and If net for him w wouldn't be HIM!" OBSERVATION Anyway, Mussolini has bowa that he 1 eae dictator wbe likes tome-body tome-body besides himself. NICE TALK It acutally waa overheard In "II," one ef the Swing Stem spots. A Hollywood visiter told the waiter: "I want Mat Ballantlae Sootoh and water." "noddy, veddy aoddy, we're all eatta Ballantlae," was the amaalng aaswer. "You see, Bob Beachley waa here last Bight" ' ..,. are where aearly every president ef " tkeee Ualted States has seme from! (8am Malsakoft, CarbondaV,' Fa- 2 ... A hlek town U- hick town! . No eae a OoeTs greea earth eaa deeerlbe Btl (Judy Caraway, Maeu-oa, La.1 . . . A kick town la waa la walah Ike ehlrapraetar maaae mere) a than the school suet. (Fays Lewla, Webster City, lowal . . . W bare when a chap yea paaa eel the street says. "Hallo, hew are yea?" he - really wants . ta know! . (Camilla - Moraeu, Haw Orleana) t, u , Where i mother welt up fee yea, net to eall yea down, but to tuck yea ta, ( Anonymous) ...Where Mala street . Is lighted up by Ood, not by bulbs! . . (H. A. a, Tuppee Lake, N. Y.) . . . . A hick town la whir the trail stapa a with a yark and Berate geta offl (Pat Chandler). A hick town la where the peopla raaant being called hicks. Lord Beaverbrook, the Londea publisher, eheered ship news reporters re-porters with the announcement '. that there would be ne war la, Yurrop for yah and yaha, ' That thing la Spain, one TreV . aumes. Is mrly a circulation stunt . , tor th American papers, huh? t. . aiwt rr sot ' Ordinary people have a lot U Bvp for. Rich people Juet have lot BADIO EATINGS Oae of the survey firms took a special rating of President Races veit's recent talks via the ekiec One was the Victory Dinner aa March . It went aver three Bet-works, Bet-works, MBC WJZ, Columbia and Mutual The ether was FDR's Fireside Chct aa March ever four aet-warka. aet-warka. Tha Victory apeech drew a rating ef It 4. The Fireside Chat rated M.L Both were half-hour splsla. But Jack Beany, who appeare oa only one radie chain for bahf aa hour, rctec higher than tha P reel-dent. reel-dent. Benny's Is M L I THE VTLLAOE QtEEN i Irene Beasley, the singing star ef I the Paradise revusleaT (the best gtrleg chew there yet), has atarred ' la several mldtowa place, but aavsr I (until recently) oa Broadway with i her nemc In th lights. So whet? I So they psU It wrong Baaaiey I f MXBXILESS TBUTH ' ' i Maeetro Light submits: "The only . time actor talk about somebody . also I when they're knocking 'em, ! ad Kirn TOWN A hick town Is where everyone ha heard oX Milton Berle and still ! doesn't give a dambt (J. W.) , , , A hick town la where sucker la a ' lollipop. (Lee Crane) . . . Hlek towns |