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Show Kolrs of an Innocent Ily.stnntlcr : The Magic Lanterns: The holdovers hold-overs ore breaking run records in the major temples, which makes the new list meaner . . . The Two Bodies, also known as Betty Grable unit Victor Mature, pour the glamour on "FootliKht Serenade." This is a happy-go-lucky musical. The story voted for Rutherford B. Hayes, but the tunes and gags help it to hide its age. It is packed with likable troupers, including Jane Wyman, Jas. Gleason and John Payne . . . "Lady in a Jam" reveals Irene Dunne as a hare-brained heiress who winds up with a psychiatrist going "tck tek" at her, but he's making loonier noises on his own later, being in love. The flicker is of the old screwball school. Patric Knowles and Ralph Bellamy horse around In it'. . . The current quip concerns the soldier in "This Is the Army," who felt that he wasn't doing do-ing enough toward the war effort. And so he sat through "Wake Island" Is-land" twice. The Wireless: The strut has gone out of the Jap radio. Its spielers are preparing the people for tough times. The earlier assurances were that beating the Americans was a breeze . . . The patter they write for M. Gross wouldn't be funny if he delivered it in baggy pants and fell on the seat of them every other word . . . The V for Victory series improves with every performance. It has acquired showmanship and gives it plenty . . . Charlie McCarthy McCar-thy returned to the airwaves feeling funnier than ever. Said it was so cold in Alaska "the inhabitants have to live some place else" . . . Roy Shield's crew, weaving the ditty, "I Get a Kick Out of You" (with velvety vel-vety violins) formed a musical rainbow rain-bow . . . Victor Borge, awarded the Comic of the Year prize last season, isn't to be renewed by his sponsor. The Story Tellers: The most shocking charges against the Nazis are now being offered by the krauts themselves. In acts, not words. "The Black Book of Poland," a record rec-ord of the German atrocities in that land, sounds like a report on the behavior of savage beasts . . . Rex Stout has compiled the pre-Pearl Harbor quotes of some of the brothers broth-ers in congress, which will make a book called "The Illustrious Dunderheads." Dunder-heads." Frank Sullivan will quip the introduction, and 6ropper's caricatures cari-catures will make the squirming complete ... A nice dab of fiction is "Mrs. Willoughby's Letters," by Mary Elizabeth Plummer in Atlantic At-lantic Monthly. Incidentally, that monthly is on the hustle nowadays, going in heavy for promotion, trying to pull away, presumably, from the graybeard clientele . . . The Most Beautiful Girl on Broadway, according accord-ing to Harry Thompson in Cosmopolitan, Cosmo-politan, hails from Sioux City. She is Constance Moore. The Front Pages: Proof that Vichy has accepted the brute philosophy philos-ophy of its Nazi masters was confirmed con-firmed by the poignant headline in one ayem gazette: "Vichy to Jail Priests Aiding Jewish Children" . . . The Mirror's breezy interview with Special U. S. Prosecutor Oscar Ewing (he sent Pelley to prison for 15 years) revealed that his storm-troops storm-troops sent Pelley $10 a month (700 of them) during one month before the trial. After his conviction they sent him about $150 daily . . . The most arresting news story locally was that one about the Very Rev. R. I. Gannon, president of Fordham, who publicly confessed that his prewar pre-war isolationist views were wrong and "that President Roosevelt was right" . . . "If," he said, "the President Pres-ident had listened to me, China, Russia Rus-sia and Great Britain would now be prostrate and we should be facing our zero hour alone and unprepared." unpre-pared." Edward G. Robinson, the star, was coming out of Dinty Moore's 46th Street rendezvous' when someone some-one pointed out Detective Johnny Broderick passing by . . . "Oh," oh'd the famed film hero, "I once played Broderick on the screen. I'd love to meet him. I've heard so much about him." A pal introduced them. "This is a real thrill," said the movie star. "But another thrill I'd enjoy would be to go with you when you and your colleagues are shooting it out with gangsters!" "I don't think you'd enjoy that, Mr. Robinson," said Broderick. "When hoodlums shoot at cops they don't use blanks." One of the more amusing Washington Wash-ington stories (unquestionably untrue) un-true) concerns Halifax and FDR . . . "Mr. President." the British ambassador ambas-sador is supposed to have said, "when I was viceroy of Indiah, I felt that all of Indiah would have understood me overnight had I wrapped myself in a sheet and sat on the floor with Gandhi." "Then why didn't you?" asked the President. "Because," blandly basso'd the Britisher, "Indiah would have understood un-derstood but Britain nevahhhh!" |