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Show W;W. GIVES COLORFUL SPLASHES ALONG GREAT WHITE WAY his gal confronts him with 'the facta . . . Moral: Fewer lies you tell the less you have to remember. MaahaMaa Murals: The Times Square salesmen peddling risgay "Broadway Confucius Remarkable Remarks" ... The colossal Automat Auto-mat on 57th St. so hoity-toity It must make a nickel feel outta place . . . The stinging, wintry (but patriotic) blasts that whip around Columbus Circle. Keeping It clear of the freedom-of-speech abusers. Those guys never could stand fresh air . . . The refreshment refresh-ment stands all over Broadway, still selling Ice-cold beverages to Ice-cold New Yorkers! . . . The picture In Scrlbner's Sth Avenue window entitled "La Chapeau de Chaille," which Is a Rubens and a ringer for Bette Davis . . . The heavily rouged old lady on 49th Street who flirts with the young mounted cop . . . Broadway the most "sinful street" In the world which has more orange juice stands than saloons. Copyright, 1940, Daily Mirror Joan Crawford . . . Hai inferiority inferior-ity complex Uetpcte fame, fortune for-tune and beauty. (New York Heartbeat I Feme Abort Town I Olivia De (Havilland and Ona Munson, who sappear In That Picture, going against the wind on Sth In the 60s . . Margie Hart, the Yankee Nudell Dandy, entering her stage entrance . . . License number H-17 iKath Hepburn's car) . . . Ethel Rarrymore dining In private at Tony's on W. 52nd . . . Joan Crawford, who hu fame, fortune and beauty still has an Inferiority complex I . . . Ex-Gov. Al Smith, Jumping onto the platform at Bill's Hay 90s and singing: "Where Did You Get That Hat?" . . . John J. Jtaskob reading the war bulletins bulle-tins via the Times blrig. electricks . - . Sherman Billingsley. the Stork Clubman, who ran afford it refusing to go to Florida and winding up In the ailing room with pneumonia's cousin. Sallies ta Our Alley i Jolson and Jeasel were reminiscing about their favorite songs the ones they rode he heavens with, in The Rhumba '.Room last night ... At the table war -Gloria Coolc-fArime Jud ig rival) ... As Jolson sighed wbout this old song and that one, Vessel chirped: . "Sic Transit Glo-Jria!" Glo-Jria!" To which Miss Cook seriously seri-ously complained: "You can't say 4that about me and get away I with It!" . . . And left the table! J . . . Red Kann's devastating critl-irism critl-irism about Hollywood: "Where 1 ihey're at your feet or throat but never at your side." Broadway Ballad: In Europe his father was the richest glass manufacturer manu-facturer ... In 1929 the Wail street crash dented him badly . . '. There wasn't a cent left of the Immense fortune after the political gangsters went to work on It . . . lie and his brother had to do something anything to support their mother . . . They came here . . . Jobs weren't easy to find nnd after a long spell of getting nowhere he remembered a trick taught him by a man who worked In his father's glass works . . . That trick enables him to support his brother and mother . . He "eats" glass at Ripley's Oddita-rlum! Oddita-rlum! Memos of a Midnlghter: Ronald Graham, the love Interest in "Du Barry," has enlisted In the Renee De Marco army . . . Horace Dodge has four bodyguards tailing his night club rounds . . . Frank Shields, the tennis star, is courting onna Marina Torlonia again . . . The Hickory House and Ruby Foo's (Miami Beach) are gold mines . . . Norma Talmadge is down to 88 pounds. Her new romance Is a youthful physician . . . Mickey Rooney, reported broken up over the marriage of the Lewis kid to Bill Powell, wonders how stories start that way. "I went out with her twice!" . . . Benny Goodman, only 33, suffers terribly from sciatica sci-atica In the stems. That explains why he listens more than he gabs the pain is excruciating . . . Jolson's next show, "On the Line," is based on Artie Shaw's success climb and flight to Mexico . . Max Gordon, producer of "Very Warm for May," is bitter about the critics . . . The no gambling edict In Miami has the restless dice-shooters dice-shooters miserable. Mldtown Vignette: If you happen hap-pen to be a Broadway Guy and you go with a Broadway Gal don't tell unnecessary fibs to her because the risk is great that you will be found out . . . One lad. frinstance, madly In love with a certain lass, and she with him, happened to meet an old girl friend the other noon and took her to a mldtown place for luncheon . . . That was all there was to it . . . But he told his Baby he'd been busy all day with business and couldn't see her for that reason and he can't for the life of him figure out urhv ha was at n (.m, anft hnffH and puffed . . . Well this Is how come . . . She's a member of The Girls' Gestapo! . . . They are a group of about twenty girl pals, who know each other's boy friend . . . They meet dally for luncheon and report to each other where they were the day or night before and who they saw with whom! . . . That is why many a lad's eyebrows lift away up to here when he fibs about something and |