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Show fl i l Innocent Bystander The Clnemagieians: Paved with guffaws, "Road to Utopia" has Bing and Bob performing their whackro-batics. whackro-batics. . . . "Sunbonnet Sue" packs the nostalgic charm of a family album al-bum playing a heartful of Gus Edward's Ed-ward's lilts. . . . "Open City" (which was produced in Italy) is a slam bang-up tribute to the intrepid Ital-ian.Undergrounders. Ital-ian.Undergrounders. . "The Sailor Takes a Wife" is a fluffy little romantic ro-mantic fable with Robert Walker and June Allyson whipping up the froth. . . . "Six Gun Man" is a stenciled plot, repititlous as hiccups, . . . Advance reports say that "Journey "Jour-ney Together," an importation from Britain by Terrence Ratigan, will be a big click. . . . "Phantom Express" Ex-press" co-stars a yawn and a snore. The Radio: The newest man-wife combo on the air is Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wilson of Akron, Ohio, and these parts. Via Station WLIB once weekly. . . . Billy Halop's emoting on CBS "Aftermath" is a welcome addition. He recently returned from the wars. . . . "Duffy's Tavern" is cooked up by only 11 gag-writers. . . . "Dead End" was loaded with earthy lingo. But the roughest word in the Theatre Guild's version on the networks was "jerk." Bigtown Newsreel: Honorable John Coffee of the House of Representatives Repre-sentatives week-ending from the Capitol at the Pierre. . . . Anita Colby, the model's model. . . . Ann Sothern, the star, paying an unexpected unex-pected visit to the 52nd street joynts and delighting the proprietors of same. . . . Don DeFore (the orchestra orches-tra leader in the film, "Stork Club") in town to rehearse with "Judy O'Connor," which opens in Apr. . . . Claudette Colbert, whose husband Is a specialist on hay-fever and allergies, aller-gies, but she suffers and suffers and suffers all year 'round. . . . Martha Raye carrying her beautiful baby from the St. Moritz to a waiting cab and the choo-choo to Chi. Sallies in Our Alley: Jackie Green, the Embassy Club clown, was in a Broadway restaurant and asked a waiter the price of dinner. "We have two dinners one for $2 and another for $5," was the reply. . . . "What do T get extra on the $5 dinner?" asked Green. . . . "Prestige," "Pres-tige," was the snapper. . . . Harvey Har-vey Stone says Sinatra has muscles now from carrying all that money to all those banks. . . . Latin Quarter boss Lou Walters asked an actor if he knew what an atheist was. . . . "Sure," was the retort, "someone who don't believe in Looey B. Mayer!" Novelette: When Harry Tugend (who wrote the film "Wake Up and Live") was an unknown writer, he courted Jean Barkow At ths time she was Billy Rose's Girl Fri-day. Fri-day. . . . "Why do you go around with a nobody?" Rose asked her "Hook up with a success or some guy likely to be one!" . . . Jean dis regarded the counsel and married Tugend. . . . They've been living (happily ever after) in Movietown, where Tugend is now Paramount Studio's executive producer. ... He will soon produce Paramount's film, "The Life of Billy Rose." Three months ago the U. S. Army in Germany discovered the lists of Nazi sympathizers in the U. S. A. Army officials promised the lists would be made public. The State Dep't promised the lists would be made public. A. Cong. Committee promised the lists would be made public. . . . And what happened? Absolutely nothing! After all those promises the lists are still a secret. se-cret. And even the reason the lists are being hushed up is a secret. Quotation Marksmanship: K. Roos: Shall we split a kiss? . . . Anon: Rudeness is the reply we cannot can-not think of. . . . J. M. Barrier I am not young enough to know everything. every-thing. . . . Virginia Faulkner: The decoration was not so much period as exclamation point. . . . Stefan Zweig: The lark whirred upward like a skyrocket of delight. . . . Chris Morley: The extraordinary insect obligato of Summer nights. . . . H. V Morton: Conversation as formal for-mal as a minuet. . . . C. E. Coe: As naked as a peeled banana. . . . O. W. Holmes: Sin has many tools, but a lie is a handle which fits them all. . . . Sax Rohmer: A smile 30 years her junior. . . . Hcywood Broun: The abrfity to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic characteris-tic which distinguishes the human beings from the beasts. . . . Getolt Burgess: A secret as fascinating as a loose tooth. Times Square- Ticker: Observers report Sec'y of State Byrnes waited wait-ed (unrecognized) in the Waldorf barber shop until Frank Costcllo wised up the manager and gut him priority. . . . Van Johnson will dine at a 52nd Street spot which barred him five years ago when he was merely an audiograph collector. . . . G. B. Shaw told Gabriel Pascal that Irv Hoffman's caricature of him is the best of thousands he has seen . . . Ned Sparks reports that he 'would like to get back to Movietown and do a picture. |