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Show isll SjI, NQ iNT Stu York Express'. Tkt vork Novelette: She used to I ".id, elr through LVdoS.Vn East Side streets to; aSn. . . Not disdainfully or i'v but with the fierce deter-- I iin of the very young. . . She these streets and the people, rJj .he hungered to know more. . . Ver studying dancing many years and became expert at the art. n a big D'way show was being she applied for the Job of on the routines. . . The pro-rr- i to k her on. and the notices ft. ed out "the wonderful dance" highlights the hit's theme. . . ,vh -v, b.t - the musical version of . . rTer Rue's "Street Scene". dance. . . The trilling number ! i rap-er- T . ? r ,Wt Hubbell, . "Its simple," says you've been part of i; Broadway dance mtises: "Most Exclusive Place Welcome" in Town Kverbody . . .Francois, a waiter at the Soho cafe, who comes to work o immaculate attire plus spats, diamond stickpin, cane, bouton-- i sign niere. . . The window-lon- g ob the canopy of a shuttered, fruit market at 46th boarded-u- ! j t program. P,9 RIG,Mf;NTn,f-?,r-AT 1 WRT KNOX . . . More than (30 boys, under 19 years of are. from V universal military training JK?X Ky" in n Men.ber.f fh VS' one year along lines of the war departments proposed KeCrUS Wi" reCeiV' C0UfSe WhiCh lrainin Mith civi,ian ! 7 Mlr,nnal ?ip!rl"lori5'iislJ!"M. fUpl" mi,iary p 1 reads: It 6th. and "Never s actors who but not the I can afford a shine two-bi- of a Lament t show-bibl- Broadway Press to credit to him-ael- f. Investing ebbing ingenuity To build some small-tim- e crooner, club or band. . . How pitiful the sum gratuity. . . That keeps some inept act from being panned . . .He camouflages talent medi-cke- ". . . With touches of a genius at his game. . And if he strains . enough some third-rat- e joke" sill cash his clippings in for movie fame. . . The simple fact is this for he alone. . . Can lick his clients flops except his own! Ll and tfdcr I'UI . before the OTDR rage afflicted the nation. One character in the movie is named Richard. During one episode another begs him to open a door. . . Its supposed to be serious sequence Ul but you cant blame ence for howling. the BLOWN FROM AIRLINER . . . This photodiagram shows how George W. Hart, Sag Harbor, N. Y., was blown from Constellation airliner on which he was a member of the crew. When 19,000 feet over Atlantic, Ilart was blown into space when the astrodome plastic bubble, from which the navigator takes star sightings for navigation, broke when airliner was 500 miles from Newfoundland, bound from New York to Paris. f audi- got Id Stein-ck- s F? filch ice work, if you can John Hersey, father of 6u for Adano and Hiroshima, ffleommumcado in Florida, worka new . . . Some er pj na Ferbers most glittering htor ary nuggets have been put between covers in "One Basket . , , , V. cart es ,!artln- the star gives "bath nearly every night for (there) who have no tub "The Yearling, after a five161' I jeek stand, will be pulled out of Kadio Too City Music hall. Blt lms at that theater UaUy run twice as long. best-sellin- MOTHERS HELPER . . . Because she expects a blessed event in by Mrs. the near future, Gretchen," intelligent dachshund owned the job of preparing Karl Kaesmeier, Leetsdale, Pa., is rushing needles handle the very weU, but tiny garments. "Gretchen cant skein. the of swell holding she does a job Oil RICHARD . . . Richard in this case is Donald L. Robinson Jr., 11, and his sister Sandra Jean, 6, Lincoln, Nebr. Pidge lets out with "open the door Richard. g L . best-selle- r. - in Gur ABeyt Did Horace ham (boss of the Giants) tell fer3. big dol-wh- w crem his-lev- cncentration camps and . Wanna know why uppity? average spot waiters are so ey revealed that they i4n weekly in tips. A surv I I I I DEBORAH KERR Ireland, the Isle of Man is beautiful. And Miss Kerr, who has tha courage to look plain as well at very beautiful, gives a performanca to be enjoyed, and better, to ba remembered. Jean Ilersholt, the kindly "Dr. Christian of the CBS Wednesday night show, got his first movie job in Hollywood in 1913 not becaust he could act, but because he owned dress suit, tuxedo, spats, derby and cane. He received all of $13 a week. The cast of "This la Hollywood." numbering close to 30 of the film capitols top people, converged on Salt Lake City for the recent premiere of "Ramrod" via all modern methods of transporation. Some went by plane, some by train, others by automobile. The reason for splitting the group was to make certain that a talent nucleus would be on hand no matter what the weather happened to be. Bryan Foy will personally supervise "Red Stallion, which may out class "Smokey" and "Thunder-head,-" produced under his supervision at 20th Century-Fox- . Therell be animal battle scenes that have never before been attempted In a a picture. rather Michael Woulfe, fashion creator under contract to William Cagney, says he's rapidly going nuts. At RKO hes designing clothes for Laraine Day and Judith Anderson for "Tycoon; at Eagle-Lio- n hes dressing Sylvia Sidney and Ann Richards for "Love From a Stranger," and at U-- I hes whipping up frocks for Ava Gardner for Singapore. Ran up a taxi bill of $107.15 in no time at all, dashing from one studio to another. So he decided to learn to drive, and on his first day as a motorist was hauled in by a cop for improper parking. The Cardinals manager, Eddie Dyer, is probably best described as the exact opposite of Leo Durocher, his hottest rival, another great manager. Dyer is a graduate of Rice institute in Texas, one of the leading institutions of learnmg in this Bai0 announcer Don Wilson has country. The rumor is that he was been sjgne(j as narrator for scenes a a Phi Beta Kappa. He was also in Columbias "The Corpse Came football star, one of the best in Tex-a- s C.O.D. George Brent, Joan Blond-e- ll n in his time. He is a quiet, and Adele Jergens have the leadTexan, who has few argu- ing roles In the thriller about a ments with umpires or anyone else. series of murders with a Hollywood But dont forget that he knows his studio background. trade. As a minor league manager in the Cardinal farm system, he Seven years isnt too long to wait kept sending along ballplayers who for a honeymoon, according to made good. Dyer had retired from baseball to Robert Mitchum and his wife. They work in the oil business with his decided when they were married to two brothers in Houston, Tex., when wait till he was a star, and then Sam Breadon sent for him to fill in honeymoon in New York, where he . . for Billy Southworth. grew up. Shed never been there. As easy going as Dyer seems to His movie career was well under be, there is nothing soft about him. way when the war interrupted it; The Locket starred him and they You dont get to be the best blocking back in Texas football if youre on headed for New York and he the soft side. Dyer has the respecl bought her a locket, because that made it possible. and affection of his squad. My team wants to play winning ODDS AND ENDS Zachary Scott baseball, he told me. "I dont have to watch their hours. They love the is convinced spring is really here; his 10, has poison oak game and like to win. They keep in daughter Waverly, less than 50 Holly--I No around want poisoning. anyone shape. I dont have to watch. Just give me men wood news photographers have snapped like Terry Moore, Marty Marion candid shots of Ann Sheridan crocheting Stan Musial, "Country Slaughter "a bedspread. . . . Matt Crowley, star of Road of Life, and radios "man with Whitey Kurowski, "Red Munger the handiHowie Pollet and a few more like the perfect diction, overcame cap of stuttering, and so altered bis plans to have worry. I dont and these, earning a livelihood from radio enWhatever happens, I know they are for to radio actor. . . . Donald OCongineer all of cent giving the team 100 per nor, comedian on tha Ginny Simms show, is fust 2 1, but he't a father and has a lot they have. That seemed to be quite enough ia sf responsibilities but be still eatt Eskimo pies during rehearsals! 1946. Ask the Red Sox. soft-spoke- ... Babe Ruth would be t1 baseball? . . . Jb Herho.r r Boover n says a billion lar ; if needed to feed the Germans, "sunk to the lowest level knmw,a-'TOO ei years of western Jjverlking, of course, the warned by the Germans in cSt tu n released by Eagle-Lion- , ts delightful. Sometimes its a thnilei worthy of Hitchcock, sometime! it's wonderful comedy. The cast of iour.se, Is excellent; the scenery j Stnn!!iies cunt well-behave- and always friendly. today. Bo Not John lluikstera". Garbo, Dietrich, IVrg an now Kerr, who already ralei right along with them. "The Adventuress." a J. Arthur Hank pnnhie hard-throwin- g, I still miss my old tobacco-chewin- g pal, Lon Warneke, who could wash down a big hunk of tobacco with a bottle of beer. Lon, from Mt. Ida, Ark., held the tobacco-chewin- g He championship. has no successor on the Cardinals ... Intelligentsia: g, Lon an Ozark Boy At least 10 of the youthful political white hopes happened to match notes the other day. They found that Mayor bad fold each confiden-tiall- y that he was grooming him to h his successor. Such a letdown new novel, The Wayward was dictated onto records, a typist then transcribed, g Marty Marion certainly must be a member of the cottonwood trail. But we find that Marty came from Richburg, S. C., before moving to Rochester for his baseball education. Marty was with Rochester three years before they decided he could handle an infield rap. But what about Stanley Frapk Mu-sia-l, ball possibly the best player in the game? Musial reports from Donora, Pa., and almost his entire early career was along the Atlantic seaboard, until he came to the Cardinals six years ago. Terry Moore came up from Memphis, Howie Pollet from New Orleans. Schoendienst worked in the East. Johnny Beazley is from Tennessee, the city being Nashville. The Ozark landscape certainly has sent in its share of great baU players. More than its share. It is surprising how many fans think of these soft-voic- naughty wordage. . . . Danny Kaye (who got close to three million in four years of film making) took four weeks of personal apps to raise The Metro-Goldwyn-Mav- her opposite Clark Gable'in Th fast-runnin- well-dresse- its Bway Confucius: Real Love Have Happy Ending. It Do Not Have Any Ending. in the thrilling "The Adventur im" it is easily undcrstandahli w hy casl hard-fighin- quoting director John Murray Anderson as rather grousing: work with elephants than show girls . . . The very old song, "Last Night on the Back Porch" (a Johnny Long platter) has been banned on all networks because of com. In a vague way, we also hod the idea that this hard-- 1 throwing, hustling team was a prod- uct of the cottonwood trail, the coun-- 1 try where men have arms and legs and take desperate chances. But we ran across a different answer in checking with the worlds champions. For example there was Enos hard-runnin- headlines. Ladies first, yknow. . . . Broadway show gels sizzling (nice weather for it, ladies) at the story to By VIRGINIA VALE ,Tr.u seeing talented Debo rah Keirs fine performanci Richard Benedict, who plays the bouncer in Columbias The Guilt of Janet Ames," is really Joseph Sciurba, an Italian. He got his start by hanging around East Coast studios as a youngster. One day A1 g Cardinals as Christie, looking over a crowd of a rather rough bunch from the prospective extras, singled him out Ozark landscape. But this Cardinal and asked if he spoke Spanish. "Si, said in his camp is one of the quietest and most buono, and Richard,him the best part. they gave orderly I have seen. They are all Italian, Bigtown Smalltalk: Paul Mantz broke the coast-to-coa- st record with his plane, "Blaze of Noon, a stunt to put the film (same name) on the front pages. But the Betty-J- o nations f VnUtfi, , Come From Everywhere Talk about tough breaks: The Nora Prentiss," was cinema, Aimed fa-- voriie boll clubs, we began a slight check-up- . from Roxboro, N. C.. and he got his start in the South Atlantic league with Columbus, Ga. Well, what about George John ("Whitey) Kurowskl, as good a third baseman as youll meet today? Kurowskl came from "Whitey Reading, Pa., playing with Portsmouth in the Middle Atlantic league, where he hit only .386. Thats good enough ... and hanging around the Cardinals, one of our fast-flyin- e. Franklin): How Agent (By Art tense he scans the papers nights and days. . . An adult mind he "presstitutes" for pelf. . . How often does he swear to coin a phrase. . . . wuth Bradsher ("Country) Slaughter, a ball player as typical of Cardinal strength as any man you can find a ball player with a great arm and a pair of legs. "Country Slaughter should have been a typiral Ozarkian. But we discovered that Slaughter came dosed!" . . . The bootblack on 49th street who keeps a copy of Variety available for struggling i a , Pepper In mingling i ; Murals: The Manhattan hall which ad- - managers, Martin. Warneke and others Also this Cardinal ball club that whipped the eastern ers and the eastern Rd Sox last year? legs and arms in this rugged try that the East doesn't have." ? jeets? jar, a "when i t v street kids. . . The choreog-- ! Anna Sokolow, . . Little . had all the critics asking: ,h , "How could she have so truly cap-of flavor squalid the city tuned I v. u a owner, writers often can be wrong. So can baseball fans who don't like to admit it. Here is a letter from an ardent Ozark country rooter: "Why don't you fellows admit that all the great ball player of modern time come from the Ozark country, where they can run and throw T I mean Arkansas. Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas? 1 mean such fellows as Penn, I' ft afVo 1 BASEBALL h?! -'- f I HiUagej ,r. w 2tJ TflCECSCREI lr Wirn i went out on strike In LINE . . . When route salesmen NEW away $15 800 worth of r e t MHwaukeerecently pickets, policemen, house- -eto receive their free share of the bak- bakery more than 1,800 persons had lined up eTgYodt By late nnZ BREAD irii lning for the free handout OH HUM! . . . Gov. Ingram M. Stainback of Hawaii told congress that the island territory is subject to taxation without representation. The Hawaiian governor appeared before the house public lands committee |