Show I The Broadway Express The Stage Door Craig Reynolds first actor to enlist and the first to get hit with a Purple Heart gets so few roles these days he has to take odd jobs to balance the budget Salaries arc rolling back The a week again are being offered instead of the wartime bribe paychecks paychecks and and accepting accepting ac ac- ac them Profit on The I Jolson Story now is figured in in excess excess excess ex ex- ex- ex cess of five million bux The dog in Lovely Me has been ordered ordered ordered or or- dered to move from his boardinghouse boardinghouse boarding boardinghouse house because he comes In too late after curtain time and wakes up the other dogs The role of the fencing champ he appears only inthe in inthe inthe the first act of Cyrano is so strenuous he has to alternate with another And you have troubles Two days after Helen Walkers Walker's producer producer producer pro pro- ducer announced she would dance for lor the first time in her next role she was badly fractured In a crash MIdtown 1 Vignette Norman Cordon is the thc 6 4 4 basso of the Met He nc is also the top lop male singer In the revived Street Scene Norman believes In Indirect Indirect indirect direct action lie He was dining in hi a midtown spot when a clunk at the next table slandered and boosted Hitler Cordon went over grabbed the nuisance in his arms carried him to the street and dumped him Into the gutter saying Youre spoiling my dinner Adolf Adom The Press Box Georgia offered a striking illustration of the methods meth meth- methods used by Fascists to take advantage advantage advantage tage of confusion mad strong-arm strong their way to power power completely completely disregarding disregarding dis dis- regarding the laws Governor Arnall Arnall Arnall Ar- Ar nall deserves support for refusing to be pushed around by the Talmadge Talmadge Tal Tal- madge hoodlums The actions of those muscle-men muscle gave America a chilling example of at fascism in ac ac- ac- ac tion A gazette observed so many generals and admirals are getting top jobs Washington is no place for a felt hat After giving giving give ing the news from Dixie the once once- over you'd never think the Emancipation Emancipation Emancipation Eman Eman- Proclamation was signed 84 years ago The Jersey Journal solved the mystery of the J S. S on the new dimes after checking checking checking check check- ing with the government They do donot donot donot not stand for Joe Stalin They are the initials of John chief of the Philly mint Character Study He De underpays his he help p but the wait wait- er He lie takes cabs to avoid subway crowds but wrestles through choked theater lobbies for a few puffs on a lie Ile greets every corny line linc in a ashow ashow ashow show with a cornier comment but thinks a guy is a celebrity when he has more wives than chil chil- dren The Late Watch Those stratosphere stratosphere stratosphere strato strato- sphere salaries paid stars are coming down fast Drop in box office of of- fice flee receipts curtailed production etc etc have studios pruning costly player rosters Many stars however however however how how- ever are willing to take a shave Supply and demand you know Sonora will market 20 million new black label platters at 39 cents re re- tail That 20 to 40 pc under current current current cur cur- rent market and is the first price break in this field since Dec 7 1941 Tropical Park track reports attendance attendance attendance at at- was up but the take is down 10 per cent The police have notified all night clubs they must be closed and empty at 4 a. a m m. This is very funny considering considering consider consider- ing most are empty much earlier New York Novelette Justin McCarthy l the young wolf lone up stick-up fool who was collared recently is well known t-o t o He lie sold several of them plenty of shares In an electronic and helicopter firm which flopped Most 1 of his suckers arc are no little miffed with Justin because he he didn't at least apologize with some of the loot he got away with with sticking sticking up nIghtclub night nightclub nightclub club patrons in their cars cars cars-as as they waited for lights to change He De almost talked a famed radio star into starting a manufacturing manufacturing manu manu- company with him One of his stock victims was ready to tell the gendarmes about him liim six months ago which would have ended his Career career career ca ca- reer of crime before It U started but Justin talked him out of it The irony of It Had he gone to the hoosegow then the term would have been short Now he may spend his J life e in jail Truman's admiration for Secy of State Marshall amounts to hero wor wore ship He lie is said to have referred to Marshall as the greatest living American Alan Ladd doesn't know when hes he's well off just bought a coa coast t night club Despite the slump everywhere gambling houses across the river report n Q 15 per cent uptake Bookies are blowing their tops because too many femmes are horning into their racket Mrs witha shaking hands with a passerby passerby- admirer near the Sherry Sherry- hotel |