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Show 1 On Broaduay Faces About Town: Van Johnson having his sox and undies selected for him (at Abercrombie 4: Fitch) by his Baby Dalya. . . . Linda Darnell Dar-nell buying a movie mag at 50th and 'Broadway, the whistle stop for wolves. . . . "Singapore Sal" (at Leon & Eddie's) admitting to H. Cushing III, that her name Is Jane Bishop and that she once was Jane Gale. . . . Katharine Cornell airing air-ing her pooches along Vth Ave. . . . Barbara Hutton dining in the Hapsburg with Count Czernin. . . . Russian Princess Stephanie Dorow-ski Dorow-ski strolling through Rumpelmay- , er's. She's in her 70s, but you . can see traces of her girlish beauty. . . . Fio LaGuardia reading a Broadway Broad-way col'm while waiting his turn on the Garden rostrum during the 1 FEPC rally. j 1 The Word Weavers: Raymond Swing summed up Churchill's speech (via his microphone) with this: "The essence of what he proposes is division, not unity." . . . Mr. Ickes whittled some well-sharpened opinions around the Chicago Round Table. He admonished that the first step in preventing another global blood-bath is for Americans to solve their own puzzles. . . . One commentator noted that the solons who voted against the war vets' housing program "are treating heroes like hoboes." . . . Averell Harriman's radloratory fell easy on the ears. Communism, he said, is not a threat, but a challenge and "the best way to meet that challenge is to improve our democracy." democ-racy." . . . Evidence that surveyors survey-ors of radio listening are pretty close: The new Hooper lists this Sunday-nighter at 19.3. . . . The Crossley puts It at 19.2. The Clnemaglclans: Good to the last tear-drop, "Sentimental Journey" Jour-ney" is a misty-eyed opus that goes over with a sigh. Lovely Maureen O'Hara heads the ticker-tuggers. . . . "Shock" is another shivery orb-popper orb-popper which peppers the spine with tingles. . . . Edward G. Robinson Robin-son lend-leased his talent to a British Brit-ish pulse-hopper: "Journey Together." Togeth-er." A meller-diller. . . . "The Notorious No-torious Lone Wolf is a run-of-the-millodrama. . . . "Riverboat Rhythm" has one or two juke-able lilts, but most of it is a rhapsody in blah. . . . "You Can't Do Without Love" is a worse advertisement for love than Reno. The Funnies: Speaking of dramatic dra-matic critics, as some of us have all wuek, one of them was asked what he thawt of a new play. . . . "Very refreshing." he said. . . . "That's swell." responded one of the authors. "You really found it refreshing?" re-freshing?" . . . "Yes," said the reviewer, re-viewer, "I felt like a new man when I woke up!" Critics usually have the last word and the last laugh. But there have been times when make-believers have flattened their belittlers. . . . Some years ago a player was roasted roast-ed by a Philadelphia play reporter. report-er. He promptly called him and snapped: "How do you expect to hurt me with your review when your whole paper couldn't hurt Roosevelt?" Quotation Marksmanship: I. Morais: He goes around with a far-away look in his eyes. . . . Disraeli: Dis-raeli: The defect of great men are the consolation of dunces. . . . D. L. Moody: Character is what you are in the dark. ... I. Elin-son: Elin-son: I spell it ArgenTNTina. . . . Rex Stout: She opened her handbag hand-bag and dug into it like a terrier. . . . John Moore: A bee was busily scolding a flower. ... A child's definition: My memory is the thing I forget with. ... P. Brito: How about calling it Hunter UNOvcrsity? . . . Anon: Ignorance and Intclli-gence Intclli-gence both start with I. . . . G. Drake: Of course time flies. You would, too, if someone was trying to kill you. . . . Anon: Experience makes a man wiser but leaves a woman a complete wreck. The producer of a flop once out-ton-holed Bob Benchley and demanded: de-manded: "Who do you think you are?" Benchley quietly replied: "I am a critic. Which means that like every man and woman 1 .-an express ex-press an opinion. The difference is that I express my opinions oublicly and get paid for It." Crltle-baltlng is an ancient sport Rub a sensitive ego the wrong way and you're bound to Ignite an explosion. explo-sion. ... But few performers have been gifted with Padercwski s wis-dom wis-dom and tolerance. After the great pianist's first recital In this country several critics panned him. An editor edi-tor graciously offered the Columns of his newspaper so that Paderew ski could reply But the eminent musician turned down ' Uie TVr aying: "It Is be5t that they w.r.te jalnit me-and I Pa, |