Show The New York Express New York Novelette She used to walk with a preoccupied air through the downtown East Side streets In Manhattan Not disdainfully or proudly but with the fierce determination determination deter deter- I of ot the very young She knew these streets and the people and she hungered to know more After studying d dancing many years she became expert at the art and when a big show was being organized she applied for the job of ot putting on the routines The producers producers producers pro pro- took her on and the notices singled out the wonderful dance which highlights the hits hit's theme The hit Is the musical version of Elmer Rices Rice's Street Scene The dance The trilling number of ot two street kids The choreographer Little Anna who had all the critics asking How could she have so truly captured captured cap cap- captured the flavor of squalid city streets Its It's simple says Anna of ot when youve you've been part them hem 1 Manhattan an hat tan Murals The Broadway Broad dance hall han which advertises advertises advertises ad ad- Most 1 Exclusive Place in Town Town Welcome Francois a waiter walter at the Soho Sobo cafe who comes comes to work in immaculate attire plus spats diamond stickpin cane bouton bouton- The window-long window sign on the canopy of a shuttered up boarded fruit ruit market at and It reads Never closed The bootblack on street who keeps a copy of or Variety available for struggling act actors rs who can afford a shine but not the two-bit two show Lament of a Broadway Press Agent By Art Franklin How tense he scans the papers nights and days An adult mind he for pelf How often does he swear to coin coIna a phrase That's good enough to credit to him him- self sell Investing ebbing ingenuity To build some time small crooner club or band How pitiful pitiful piti pit ful the sum gratuity That keeps some Inept act from being panned He camouflages talent medi oke eke With touches of a genius at athis athis athis his game And if he strains enough some enough some third-rate third joke will cash his clippings in for movie fame The simple fact is this this for for he alone Can lick his clients client's flops except flops except his own Talk about tough breaks The cinema Nora Prentiss was filmed before the rage afflicted the nation One character character character charac charac- ter In the movie is named Rich Rich- ard and During one episode another begs him to open a door Its It's supposed d to be serious sequence but but you cant can't blame the audience audience audi audi- ence nce for howling Paul Mantz broke the coast to record with his plane Blaze of Noon a stunt to put the film mm same name on the front pages But Betty Jo got the first Broadway show gels sizzling nice weather for it ladies at the story Quoting director John Murray Anderson Anderson Anderson An An- derson as ns grousing Id rather work with elephants than show showgirls showgirls showgirls girls The very old song Last Night on the Back Porch a Johnny Long platter has been banned on all networks net because of its naughty Danny Kaye Kay who got close to three million In four years of film making took four weeks of personal apps to raise tax coin At least 10 of the the- nations nation's youthful political white hopes happened to match notes the theother theother theother other day They found that Mayor ODwyer had told each confidentially confidentially that he was grooming him to tobe tobe tobe be his successor Such a letdown way Confucius Real Love Do Not Have Dave Happy nappy Ending It Do Not Rave nave Any Ending The Intelligentsia John Steinbeck's Steinbeck's Stein Stein- becks beck's new novel The Wayward Bus was dictated onto records which a typist then transcribed Nice selling best-selling work if you can get it John Hersey father tather of Bell for Adano and Hiroshima is incommunicado in Florida working working working work work- ing on a new best Some of Edna Ferber's most glittering gUttering literary nuggets have been put between between between be be- tween covers in One Basket Mary Martin the star gives bath parties nearly every night for London London London Lon Lon- don friends there who have no tub or water The Yearling after a week five-week stand will be pulled out of Radio City Music hall ball Too sad Hit films at that theater usually run twice as long 1 Sallies In Our Alley Ailey Did Horace Stoneham boss of the Giants tell Babe Ruth would be offered a big job jobin In In baseball Herbert Hoover says a billion dollars dol dollars dollars dol- dol lars is needed to feed reed the Germans who have sunk to the lowest level known in years of western his his- tory Overlooking of ot course the level maintained by the Germans ans in their concentration camps and crematories Wanna know why swank spot waiters are arc so uppity A survey revealed that they average weekly in tips |