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Show BE The Big Town at Sunset: Wlncbellebritles: James Farley studying five shiny new FDR dimes that a waitress innocently handed him in making change on a railroad rail-road diner. . . . Morton Downey, whose real first name is Sean. . . John Payne (of the Magic Lanterns) Lan-terns) supping solo in the Cub room. Leading men don't seem natural without a lady in the scene. . . . Henry Fonda dodging clawtographers congesting the "Mr. Roberts" stage door by making a clean getaway via the front entrance. en-trance. The Wild West Is gone! Bingham Bing-ham Canyon (Utah) recently became the last town in the Far West to pass a law making it sinful to tote a gat without It being registered. Times Square Ticker: Marlon Davies' former beach mansion at Santa Monica now is run by Joe Drown, owner of swanky Bel Air (Beverly Hills), as an exclusive beach rendezvous. The rates are merely $70 a day. Filled to capacity, capac-ity, however. . . . The revived George M. Cohan's "45 Minutes to Broadway" will introduce several Cohan lilts the family found in old iiuimi), A tukil aJiiiH wa "I lunched at the house of commons com-mons in London. I love lunching there. It's become sort of a habit." Yes, dear, and blimey hif hit hisn't beginnin' to showl Midtou n Vignette: They assure you it happened the other day . . . The per-sonnel per-sonnel manager of a large advertising firm uas interrupted by an office boy uho ashed if he could have the following follow-ing day o so he could attend a meeting meet-ing . . . "What kind' of meeting?" sniffed the office mgr. "A union meeting.'". meet-ing.'". . . "No," said the office boy, "a meeting of the General Motors board of directors. I'm one of the larger stockholders!" . , . The agency is federal fed-eral Advertising, and the office boy-stockholder boy-stockholder is named William Dayton Holmes. Broadway Piffle: One of the B'way 10 per centers is making a fortune booking nothing but professional pro-fessional "amateur" shows. . . . Gi-Gi Durston (the Stork club canary) says when they bill you as a "Society Singer" people think it means you can't sing. . . . That lovely thing at Steeplechase (who tests all the daredevil rides) is Daphne Dunbar, a Barbizon cover gal. Does it on the side for the thrill of it makes plenty modeling. model-ing. . . . Passersby do double-takes double-takes at the sign in a used-car window near 54th and B'way. One imported (Italian) convertible has a price tag on it reading: "$8,500." . . . The newest midtown phone exchange is Luxembourg 2. (Ran out of American names, no doubt) Ulzo, the Phoenix (Ariz.) C. of C. Is trying to get the city fathers to ban cowboys from walking through hotels and other publio buildings with their spurs on. ine unemagicians: a naymaker among hard-hitting mellers, "Canon City" explodes a shot-by-shot replica rep-lica of the famed Colorado jail-break. jail-break. Its breakneck pace keeps the excitement winging. . . . Another An-other thrillodrama is "Raw Deal." This is a tip-top tingler showing T-men in action that suits the spine to a T. . . . "I, Jane Doe" oilers some familiar murder mystery mys-tery angles, but Ruth Hussey's curves are far more arresting. . . . "The Argyle Secrets" unreels a plot that's easier to see through than see. . . . "The Flame" is one of those dulluloids that won't set any box offices on fire. Side-Show. Florence, the newsstand impnsario (at Madison and 53rf), tiling free papers to the first 100 patrons pa-trons to celebrate her birthday . , . Relics from the Collyer mansion in Harlem incongruously displayed near the atom bomb souvenirs ol Hiroshima at Hubert's museum flea circus . , . Airj. Deu ey's charming manner of not answering reporters' questions in the neusreels. Editorial: Robert Best convicted of treason against the United States and sentenced to life, has obtained a stay of sentence. . . . 250,000 honorable American boys got death ?n the beaches of Normandle, Okinawa Oki-nawa and Iwo Jima. . . . Best told the American soldiers (fighting in the field) that they were wrong and Hitler was right. ... He doubtless meant It was physically safer to be a traitor behind a Nazi microphone micro-phone than in an American uniform uni-form supporting the flag. . . . Best declared (when sentenced) he wouldn't change places with anyone. any-one. ... On behalf of 250,000 gold stars tills is to tell traitor Best that a short trip from Main street to Arlington is better than the long and dirty road from Nuremburg to Alcatraz. It looks like Elsenhower would rather be remembered as man who did so much to make America safe for democracynot democ-racynot one who made Wash-inr Wash-inr safe for the Democrats. |