Show The Broadway Express The Stage Door Craig Reynolds first actor to enlist and the first to get hit with a Purple Heart gets so few roles these days he has to take odd jobs to balance the thc budget Salaries are rolling back The a week again are being offered instead of the wartime bribe paychecks paychecks and and accepting accepting ac ac- OC- OC them Profit on The Jolson Story now Is figured in excess exI excess ex ex- ex- ex I cess of five million bux The dog in Lovely Me has been ordered ordered ordered or or- dered to move from his boarding boardinghouse boardinghouse boardinghouse house because he comes in too late after curtain time and wakes up the other dogs The role of the fencing champ he appears only Inthe in inthe inthe the first act of Cyr Cyrano no Is so strenuous he has to alternate with another And you have troubles Two days after Helen Walkers Walker's producer producer producer pro pro- ducer announced she would dance for the first time in her next role she was badly fractured in a crash Midtown Vignette Norman Cordon is the 6 4 basso of or the Met He Dc is also the top male singer in the revived Street Scene Norman believes In Indirect indirect direct action He lIe was in a midtown spot when a clunk at the next table slandered and boosted Hitler Cordon went over grabbed the nuisance in his arms carried him to the street and dumped him into the gutter saying Y Youre ure spoiling my dinner Adolf The Press Box Georgia offered a striking illustration of the methods methods methods meth meth- used by Fascists to take advantage advantage advantage tage of confusion contusion and strong arm their way to power power completely completely disregarding disregarding dis dis- regarding the laws Governor Arnall Arnall Arnall Ar- Ar nall deserves support for refusing to be pushed around by the Talmadge Talmadge Tal- Tal madge hoodlums The actions of ot those muscle-men muscle gave America a chilling example of ot fascism in m in ac ac- ac- ac tion A gazette observed so many generals and admirals are getting top jobs Washington is no place for a felt hot hat After giving giving giving ing the news from Dixie the once once- over you'd never think the Emancipation Emancipation Emancipation Eman Eman- Proclamation was signed 84 years ago The Jersey Journal solved the mystery of the J L S. S on the new dimes after checking checking checking check check- ing with the government They do donot donot donot not stand for Joe Stalin They are the initials of John chief of the Philly mint Character Study He underpays his help but the wait wait- er lIe He takes cabs to avoid subway crowds but wrestles through h choked theater lobbies for a few puffs pulls on a He greets greet every corny line in a ashow ashow ashow show with a cornier comment but bat thinks a guy is a celebrity when he has more wives than chil chil- dren The Late Watch Those stratosphere stratosphere strato strata sphere salaries paid stars are coming down fast tast Drop in box office of ot- fice flee receipts curtailed production etc have studios pruning costly player rosters Many stars however howver however how how- ever ver are w willing to take a shave I I I supply and demand you know Sonora will market 20 million new black label platters at 39 cents re re- re- re tail That 20 to 40 pc under current current current cur cur- rent market and is the first price break in this field since Dec Dee 7 1941 Tropical Park track reports reports reports-at attendance at- at was up but the take is down 10 per cent The police have notified all night clubs they must be closed and empty at 4 a. a m m. m This is very very funny considerIng considerIng consider consider- ing most are empty much earlier New York Novelette Justin McCarthy the young wolf lone up stick-up fool who was collared recently Is well known to He lie sold several of them plenty of ot shares in an electronic and helicopter firm which flopped Most of his suckers are no little miffed with Justin because he didn't at least apologize with some of the loot he got away with with sticking sticking up nIghtclub night nightclub nightclub club patrons in their cars cars cars-as as they waited for Cor lights to change lIe He almost talked a famed radio star into starting a manufacturing manu mann company with him One of or his stock victims was ready to tell the gendarmes about him six months ago which would have ended his career career career ca ca- reer of or crime before beCore it started but Justin talked him out of ot it The Thc irony of it Had he gone to the hoosegow then the term would have been short Now he may spend his J life e in V jail I Truman's adl admiration on for Secy of ot I State Marshall amounts to hero wor wor- ship He is said to have referred to Marshall as the tile greatest living American Alan Ladd doesn't know when hes he's well off Just bought a coast night club Despite the slump everywhere gambling houses across the river report a 15 per cent uptake Bookies are blowing their tops because too many femmes temmes are horning Into their racket Mrs shaking hands bands with a passerby admirer near the Sherry- Sherry hotel of |