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Show The Neiv York And Washington Wire: Admiral George Robert, who was Vichy's Governor at Martinique, is the honored guest of the U. S. Navy In a suite at the luxurious Normandy Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico. He will get a free ride to France on a Spanish ship . . . The Berlin radio now follows traitor Robert Best's newscasts with this: "Mr. Best speaks for himself and does not represent rep-resent the opinions of this station" . . . During Sec'y Knox's tour ol Europe (on his return via the South Atlantic by plane) he learned the pilots had never been Initiated over the Equator. Playing Father Neptune, Nep-tune, Mr. Knox then initiated them by mixing a drink for both. It was cold chicken soup mixed with orange juice. t The Magic Lanterns: There was just one unfurling, so this space can be devoted to flickers good enough to rate some fresh orchids . . . The film that hit you hardest was "Heroic "Hero-ic Stalingrad the City that Stopped Hitler" . . . The finest all-around Job out of Hollywood "The Watch on the Rhine," an improvement on Its footlight version . . . The most talent-laden "For Whom the Bell Tolls," which had magical acting from the top G. Cooper and I. Bergman Berg-man to the tiniest bits, Including horses and guns. None of the cinema's cine-ma's golden gals and youths were In it, which gives you an idea . . . The laughlngest film of recent months was "The More the Merrier" Mer-rier" . . . The most disappointing were Crosby's "Dixie" and Hope's "Let's Face It," high-priced jobs that looked marked down . . . The film that promised most and delivered deliv-ered less was "The Adventures of Tartu," which mixed England's best with Hollywood's corniest . . . The week's import was "Top Man," a show case for young Donald O'Connor O'Con-nor and a roomful of bands in short, juve and jive. Jump the yarn, which is no jump, since it lies flat, and you can revel In song and dance flippancies. The Dials: Edward Murrow ana Larry Le Sueur, who rarely sugar-coat sugar-coat their broadcasts, sent word that the Reich is approaching its 1918 whimpering. And Howard K. Smith relays from Switzerland that the Nazi jails are loaded with sassy Nazis who are beginning to tell Himmler's goons to go heil themselves them-selves . . . Tojo, the dog-faced boy, bit his tongue as follows: "The enemy, en-emy, who was defeated at the beginning begin-ning is, in fear of the richness of our conquered territory, trying to overwhelm our nation" . . . Translation: Trans-lation: "Here they come, boys, and shooting" . . You know who's good? Dunninger, the telepathic marvel, who takes words right out of your cranium, before you can mouth them. He's probably dictating this plug right now by telepathy . . . America's song tastes range from the ditties in "Oklahoma" to the corny "Pistol Packin' Mama," which is the new name for "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'." New York Melodrama: Years ago a Broadway showman befriended a young man . . . When The Young Man suddenly acquired a job on the radio to which he invited guest stars the man who once befriended him asked him to put his wife on the program . . . "Don't be silly," was the retort, "your wife is a has-been. I need 'names' for my show!" . . . That was seven years ago, and the fellow has carried a grudge all that time . . . Now it looks as though he will even things . . . The Young Man was recently inducted into the army . . . And the fellow who befriended be-friended him and was turned down for a favor is now a big shot officer of-ficer . . . He has requested Our Hero's services . . . Owwwwi Quotation Marksmanship: Nina Wilcox Putnam: Men are as transparent trans-parent as cellophane and as hard to remove, once you get rapped up in them . . . Thome Smith: A voice almost as low as his intentions . . . Dr. G. Vincent: So few of us really think; what we do is rearrange cur prejudices . . . Margaret Case Har-riman: Har-riman: Money is what you'd get along beautifully without if only other oth-er pople weren't so "crazy about it . . . Swift: Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent . . . Sir Robert Walpole: Gratitude a lively sense of future favors . . . Evelyn M. Campbell: Hr face had been nicely chipped from granite. One Palm Beach realtor reports most of the leases there have been gobbled up . . . Fred Allen's latest news: That he resumes in December Decem-ber for the same sponsor. The Radio: The safest kind of heckling, Raymond G. Swing pointed point-ed out, is that which termites the war strategy. This strategy, he said, has to be secret to be any good. So when a demagogue or a newspaper 01 a second front soap-boxer starts running the war to please himself, he Is safe from authoritative squelehas the high command preferring to let htm rave rather than tip its rnttt to the enemy. Those hecklers need about as much courage as it takes to snoot a duck in a rain barrel, 11 la observed. |