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Show a(l I Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Badloafs: Fred Allen shelved his regular once-a-week program because be-cause the rigorous routine taxed his ' health. But during one week Allen guestarred on three different shows and Improved them all . . . The new Danny IJaye program is bound to click. He rates a tip of the hat j for avoiding the gag files and for trying a unique brand of microfun with original stuff . . . Henny Young-man's Young-man's gagging is funnier than it has ever seemed before ... The "Two on a Clue" CBSession rates attention. atten-tion. A welcome relief from the usual afternoonsense. . . . Radio stations sta-tions may be forced to suspend the round-the-clock (all night) recorded programs if skilled technicians are drafted. It would save electricity, I say Gov't execs, for both stations and tuner-lnners. "j I The Magazines: Mr. Justice' James F. Byrnes has turned out an incisive blueprint via American Magazine, which should serve as an excellent guide for taking Congressional Congres-sional procedure out of its covered-wagon covered-wagon rut and converting it into a legislative streamliner. This article is a model of constructive criticism. . . . Harper's contains a plague-by-plague report of the Argentinazl malady. ... In Vogue, Harriet Van i Home takes apart radio listening gullibles who write letters of condo-I condo-I lence when a character in a soap I opera dies. Difficult to believe that j people with their mentality can , write. . . . W. Davennort's "The President and the Press" In Collier's I Is a must for editorialists, too. . . . The Page 121 cartoon in Esquire shows two penguins looking at a de-1 j serted shack marked "Byrd," with one saying: "Wonder whatever hap-, pened to him?" . . . FDR decorated him last week! Midtown Favorite: This one will amaze his pals not that Frank Far- rell would run from a fight, but none of us ever saw him in one. ... He i is better described as a mild guy. ! i . . . Slim, good-looking and we all like him very much. ... A Life artist (who drew a picture of Far-; rell in action last year) told this story last night. . . . Frank was pos-1 ing for the artist, nonchalantly (with j a gun over his knees), in one of the i South Pacific islands. . . . Suddenly Frank (Cap't, pod'n me, sir) Farrcll of the Marines looked up and said: "Look at that over there!" . . . The artist looked across to the other side of the atoll and saw nothing but Jungle. . . . But Frank had spotted a camouflaged Jap. . . . And fired four times in rapid succession. . . Later when Frank and the artist walked over they found four very ' dead Japs there . . . Pretty good shooting for an ex-Night Club editor. The Intelligentsia: Walter Davenport, Daven-port, associate ed. of Collier's, is flying fly-ing with the Air Transport Command in the Pacific for a 6 weeks' tour, j j . . , Paul Hunter, publisher of Lib-! erty, says Marshall Field was Inter-. Inter-. ested "about a year and a half ago" I In the purchase of the weekly, ' "but it never came to anything." The recent rumors came from staffers. staff-ers. . . . Perfect name for a critic: Motion Picture Herald's London movie embalmer is Peter Burnup. . . . Bing Crosby's top songs for 1943 are expected to be his recordings of Cole Porter's "Begin the Bcgulne" and "Night and Day." . . . Philip Wylle was unimpressed by an item concerning a Marine'! children who were born on the same day in various vari-ous years. Wylle was born on May 12. 1902. His late brother on the same day In 1904, and his late half-brother, half-brother, Ted, on May 12, 1913. i The Grandest Canyon: I Facea About Town: Jimmy Durante, Du-rante, In the ailing room between broadcasts, prepares this financial report: Owe $50 you're a piker. Owe $50.000 you're a businessman. Owe $50.000.000 you're a tycoon. Owe $50.000,000,000 you're a guvvln-mint. guvvln-mint. . . , Harold Lloyd, the clown prince, near the City Center Theatre, j unrecognized by autografters who were searching for him. ... In Rcu-' bens, Frank Conville (the No. 1 man1 I of the U.S.O. entertainers three years overseas) handing his butter! i to a civilian at the next table, who' was making such a to-do about "only one piece." . . . Bea Llllle of the flawless flaw-less diction pausing outside Theodore's Theo-dore's to chat (In rich cockney) with a lonely-looking British tar. . . . Ann Sheridan, bound for South America, whert she has a Job at $2,000 per week. Broadway Confurlus: The Trouble' With Dream Girls Is That They Keep 1 I You Awake All Night I New Tork Novelette: To stlmu late sales at a recent war bond rally' at Station WMCA. Mrs. Meyer Da I vis donated an actual photograph of Lincoln for auction. . . . Mrs Davis sat In the audience with her! daughter. She stared at a soldier walking up and down the aisles. . . . The daughter whispered: "Mother. If you had one wish to make now. what would it be?" . . . "I'd wlnh," said Mrs. Davis, "to see my son again." ... A second or so latei the soldier walked toward Mrs. Da vis. ... He was her boy I |