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Show ILIsS- i Man About Town: Memos or a Midnlfrhtcr: Insiders hear next year's flying time from N. Y. to Miami will be 200 minutes. . . . Many of the show gals ar worried silly that their names will be dragged into the Alvin Paris football foot-ball bribe scandal because they were Paris' dates. Paris hasn't had so much publicity since French postcards. post-cards. . . . John Murray Anderson's chums hear he is experimenting with the Russian "youth" serum. He is in his 60s. . . . Bing will make close to a million dollars out of his platters this year, not including his many other chores. . . . Rodgers & Hammerstein are taking no risk with their gold mine, "Annie Get Your Gun." They are paying Mary Jane Walsh the highest wage yet for an understudy just to stand by in the wings. $750 per week. . . . Top loss to Moss Hart (whose apt. was burgled) was the gold ciggie case signed by the cast of "Winged Victory." Broadway Ballad: (By Don Wahn) : I do not blame the young for being sick. ... Of giving alms to beggars of the past. . . . Why should they turn to watch a shabby trick? . . . Why should they care if terror joined the cast? . . . We had our ' roses, redolent of spring. . . . We had onr nights of revelry and mirth. . . . We had the softest, soft-est, loveliest songs to sing. . . . We had the shining rapture of the earth. . . . Yes, it is gone and shortly we will go. . . . The golden girls, the roses and the wine. . . . And newer lads will find the nights aglow with all the misty magic that was mine. . . . And when they find that love and beauty die. ... I hope they leave more gracefully than I. The Broadway Lights: J. Durante, Du-rante, X. Cugat and the dice tables were the reason the new Flamingo (Las Vegas) attracted 28,000 patrons in the first three days. . . . Midtown hotels had their worst week in five years. One had 370 empty rooms, another 320 and another 300. . . . Buddy Kaye made so much coin out of the ditty, "Till the End of Time," that he is among the producers of the new Jerome Bobbins show, "Look, Ma, I'm Dancing." ... A short titled "The Last Bomb" comes across with atomic impact, particularly particu-larly one episode wherein the cam-, era slowly moves through the rows of graves at Iwo Jima. After viewing view-ing that, you'll cherish every moment mo-ment of peace like it was the last minute of your life. Broadway Story: The most . valuable song copyright in the world Is "White Christmas." . . . It was published in 1942 and sold over one million copies during dur-ing Its first foar months. . . . On some days it sold over 50,000 copies. . . . Each year (since) it was purchased by 350,909 people. peo-ple. . . . The recordings totaled five million records two million f which were Bing's version up to this year. . . . Decca says this year it out-sold any of the previons seasons over 500,000 platters. . . . But this is why it is the most valuable copyright. . . A copyright lasts 56 years. ... It has over 50 years to go and selling at the rate it is going you can imagine how mnch richer the tax department will get. The Story Tellers: The latest edition edi-tion of Who's Who reveals that the American general who has won the most decorations (40) is Brig. Gen. Edgar K. Hume. This is the first time we ever came across his name. . . . Joff Keate's cartoon chuckler has been widely reprinted in the digests. di-gests. A child specialist is g'ving advice to a mother: "You'll ha e to handle this child carefully; rerr. ember em-ber you're dealing with a sensitive, high-strung little stinker." . . . The Minnesota state prison's newspaper (edited by a convict) ran this editorially: edi-torially: "Those caught stealing items from the papers will be dropped from our list of contribu tors. Stealing from another's writings writ-ings is one of the lowest bits of thievery!" thiev-ery!" Washington newsmen enjoy spinning this one: A group of them once accompanied FDR to a show. They thanked a secret service man for providing them with excellent seats. "Don't mention it," the secret servicer retorted. "Just notice the seating arrangement. You'll discover no one can take a shot at the President without hitting one or two reporters first!" Quotation Marksmanship: T. Parker: Democracy means not "I am as good as you are," but "You aro as good as I am." . . . Maurois: Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. . . . E. Brandeis: Sometimes you pay compliments and sometimes you pay for them. ... P. Davis: And so they were divorced and loved happily ever after. . . . Ed Wynn: It was so cold my blankets fought to get on the bottom. . . . M. Koin-roff: Koin-roff: What can you expect of a day that begins getting up in the morn. |