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Show The Big Town at Sunset: Winchellebritles: James Farley studying five shiny new FDR dimes that a waitress Innocently handed him In making change on a railroad rail-road diner. . . . Morton Downey, whose real first name is Sean. . . John Payne (of the Magic Lanterns) Lan-terns) supping solo In the Cub room. Leading men don't seem natural without a lady In the scene. . . . Henry Fonda dodging clawtographers congesting the "Mr. Roberts" stage door by making a clean getaway via the front entrance. en-trance. The Wild West is gone! Bingham Bing-ham Canyon (Utah) recently became the last town in the Far West to pass a law making it sinful to tote a rat without it being registered. Times Square Tickeri Marlon Davies' former beach mansion at Santa Monica now is run by Joe Drown, owner of swanky Bel Air (Beverly Hills), as an exclusive beach rendezvous. The rates are merely $70 a day. Filled to capacity, capac-ity, however. ... The revived George M. Cohan's "45 Minutes to Broadway" will introduce several r-nhsn iiit the familv found In old trunks. . . . From Elsa's col'm: "I lunched at the house of commons com-mons in London. I love lunching there. It's become sort of a habit." Yes, dear, and blimey hif hit hisn't beginnin' to showl Midtown Vignett: Tby assurt you it happened the other day . . . T hi personnel per-sonnel manager of large advertising firm was interrupted by an office boy who asked if he could have the following follow-ing day off so he could attend meeting meet-ing . . . "What kind of meeting?" sniffed the office mgr. "A union meeting?'. meet-ing?'. . . "No," said the office boy, "a meeting of the General Motors board of directors. I'm one of the larger stockholders!" . . . The agency is Federal Fed-eral Advertising, and the office boy-stockholder boy-stockholder is named William Dayton Holmes. Broadway Piffle: One of the B'way 10 per centers is making a fortune booking nothing but professional pro-fessional "amateur" shows. . . . Gi-Gi Durston (the Stork club canary) says when they bill you as a "Society Singer" people think it means you can't sing. . . . That lovely thing at Steeplechase (who tests all the daredevil rides) is Daphne Dunbar, a Barbizon cover gal. Does it on the side for the thrill of it makes plenty modeling. model-ing. . . . Passersby do double-takes double-takes at the sign in a used-car window near 54th and B'way. One imported (Italian) convertible has a price tag on it reading: "$8,500." . . . The newest midtown phone exchange is Luxembourg 2. (Ran out of American names, no doubt.) Ulzo, the Phoenix (Ariz.) C. of C, is trying to get the city fathers to ban cowboys from walking through hotels and other public buildings with their spurs on. The Cinemagicians: A haymaker among hard-hitting mellers, "Canon City" explodes a shot-by-shot replica rep-lica of the famed Colorado jail-break. jail-break. Its breakneck pace keeps the excitement winging. . . . Another An-other thrillodrama is "Raw Deal." This is a tip-top tingler showing T-men in action that suits the spine to a T. . . . "I, Jane Doe" offers some familiar murder mystery mys-tery angles, but Ruth Hussey's curves are far more arresting. . . . "The Argyle Secrets" unreels a plot that's easier to see through than see. . . . "The Flame" is one of those dulluloids that won't set any box offices on fire. Side-Show: Florence, the newsstand tmprtsano at Madison and 5ird), giving free papers to the first 100 pa-T pa-T t0, "lebrat her birthday . . . Kehcs from the Collyer mansion in Harlem incongruously displayed near the atom hnmt ii; i j vi iiiTusmma I at Huberts museum flea circus . . . Mrs. Dewey's charming manner of not answering reporters' questions in the newsreels. Editorial: Robert Best, convicted of treason against the United States and sentenced to life, has obtained stay of sentence. . . . 250,000 honorable American boys got death tfn the beaches of Normandie, Okinawa Oki-nawa and iwo Jima Best told h! r!u8n Sldiers (fiShti"8 1" the ned) that they wcre w Hitler was right. . . . He doubtless meant it Was physically safer to be a trmtor behind a Nazi microphone micro-phone than in an American uni-form uni-form supporting the Bag. . . Best declared (when sentenced') he wouldn't change places with any- star"." tV- bChalf f 250'000 oId t tars this ,s to tell traitor lest 0 Ar toST ,tHP frm Main 'ee and 00 'S beUcr than the l0"8 1 dA,cat?a,rad frm Nuremburg woVi,18 Eisenhower ... cr be remembered "a man who did .0 much to ! taTf 0t,0n'whie Wash, ta Bafe for the Democrats. |