Show 0 La t IW V Tha Thaw s lV While hile Yawning now Japan Ho o ho have n t switch steel scrap is iJ o offering to sell us about bout to-doodle to What's all that riis Miss Truman's name Margarets Margaret's anyhow Her her middle name real first name is Mary Some said this co nasty person British British- booster bu but but used to be a what does docs he be do for England taxes now He still pays his Moor who has a honey of a Istanbul of blues voice was Miss 37 when she was only 12 The Cincy Enquirer wit observes that that a aman aman man who found a l valuable pearl in his oysters in a night club almost broke even The Wall Vall St. St Journal occasionally occasionally occasionally occa- occa seasons its stodgy financial fi financial financial fi- fi folderol with zany puns like this Once upon a time and it was there was a a. little bce bee very happy because it got a bumble from heaven The Show Shops Critic George Jean Nathan probably doesn't even suspect that in Houston Tex its it's against the law to sleep p in a th theater thea thea- a- a ter Ted Saucier is conferring with on a proposed sequel to his Weekend at the Waldorf It ranks among the first 10 screen immortals immortals immortals im im- mortals as a top money maker Annie Get Your Merman is this kind of humdinger It opened dur- dur fn inu the 1945 46 1945 IG season but topped all the 48 1947 moneymakers The first variety show on television has showmen worked up Into a pitch of breathlessness that vaude can have a big revival via the new medium Wouldn't that be bethe bethe bethe the irony of the ages If U Vaude came out of the Tomb and slew its murderer the Talkies S. S Jay Kaufman a pioneer pioneer pio pio- neer veer along Broadway two decades ago recalls when he met lIer Herbert ert II Hoover just defeated for re The President ex-President told about Cal Coolidge Coolidge Coolidge Cool- Cool idge who inaugurated the idea of seeing seeing seeing see see- ing anyone who wished to see Jee him one him one hour a week Mr Hoover tried the tIle plan but not happily When he next nest saw Coolidge he asked Silent Cal Car how he could see so JO many persons in an hour while he Hoover could see Jee so JO few D B Because e c a use e dead panned dead panned Cal YOU answer back The One of the liveliest liveliest live live- liest summer fiestas is Hollywood Showcase Mickey Rooneys Rooney's quicksilver quicksilver quicksilver quick quick- silver nonsense darts from chuckle to chuckle The give-away give radio radio radio ra ra- ra- ra dio shows are shelling out a o mint weekly weekly but but the dreadful sameness of the formats puts most of them In the dozen dime category CBS's Adventures in Science is enlightening as well as entertaining entertain entertain- ing ing-a ing a rare wedding Robert Shaws Shaw's choral group replacing McCarthy is a refreshing relief from most summer subs This tuneful half haU hour deserves to hang around when the leaves fallI fallI fallI fall I was happy when I read Betty Grable was the highest paid woman last year ear says sas Jackie Elinson EUnson Its nice for Cor a change to sec see an actress make all that money without once suing her husband Several book firms have folded recently Big ones are doing are doing okay but the small fry cant can't take it Irwin Shaw refused to let firms reviewers reviewers reviewers re re- viewers et al aI see the galleys galley of his next novel He ra rates tes it better than seller best The Naked and the Dead The book trade has labelled Kathleen Winsor's new untitled opus Mrs Kinsey's Report Report Re Re- port port Wont Won't be unveiled until a year hence henc Charles Lindbergh's Lindbergh's Lind Lind- berghs bergh's new book Of Q f Flight and Life Scribners Scribner's is c due ue soon His last was We in 1927 B Bernard Bernard Ber Ber- r- r nard Baruch spurned to do doa doI a mag piece giving advice to the President of the U. U S. S Oh No Dept Gold tipped Gold tipped shoes ar arc the newest newest thing for lor men in the theD wrist loose D set Chums lums h hear r Bobo Rockefeller is writing a novel Dorothy Dorothy Dorothy Dor Dor- othy Lawlor the sal gal who got all that tree free space claiming she would marry any roan man Ian for has haJ decided to cash m In on tho the publicity and take some night It c club b bookings Starts in a Long Lone I island uland joynt The permanent aG ad- al dyers dress of Mike Mke and Anno Anne of oj Rumania a is is u Ouch Ouchy Switzerland Times Square Ticker Tick U IZ you see Ethel Merman wearing a hat its it's the only one she owns And mighty S pretty to too o The late Evelyn Walsh M Ma V MacLean's cLeans cLean's fabulous ouS D Dusenberg Dusen- Dusen berg which cost costher her plus s lots more for accessories i is now a local f cab ab- The owner paid for it at an auction N News vs e se services v 1 ces might check with playwright playwright play play- wright S. S Kingsley One ne of the De Dead ad End Ed Kids who played Milty in KI Kingsleys Kingsley's hit has become o a skilled k surgeon J j. j P P. P M Morgan Morgan's organ s 's s ex ex is now at Bar Hars Har Han bor ber w with h his s wife wile The millionaire millionaire bequeathed him an estate In th they the fashions ble sector W VM and enough COi coin to o loaf the rest of his life bile Thera c s i tl new Dew play about abou 4 making the rounds The foreword says Ys All All the characters In this play arc are purely purely pure- pure ly IV phony J r and so are their e i r orIginals |