Show IvI Notes o of f an Innocent Bystander The Magic lagic Lanterns The holdovers holdovers holdovers hold hold- overs are breaking run records in inthe inthe inthe the major temples which makes the n new w list meager The Two Bodies also known as Betty Grable and Victor Mature pour the glamour on Footlight Serenade This is a lucky happy-go-lucky musical The story voted for Rutherford B B. B Hayes but the tunes and gags help it to hide its age It is packed with likable troupers including Jane Wyman Jas Gleason and John Payne Lady in a Jam reveals Irene Dunne as a hare-brained hare heiress who winds up with a psychiatrist going at her but hes he's making loonier noises on his own later being in love The flicker is of the old screwball school Patric Knowles and Ralph Bellamy horse around in it The current quip concerns the soldier in This Is the Army Anny who felt that he wasn't doing doing doing do do- ing enough toward the war effort And so he sat through Wake Is Island Island Island Is- Is land twice The Wireless The strut has gone out of the Jap radio Its are preparing the people for tough times The earlier assurances were that beating the Americans was a breeze The patter they write for M. M Gross wouldn't be funny if he delivered it in baggy pants and fell on the seat of them every other word The V for Victory series Improves with every performance It has acquired showmanship and gives it plenty Charlie McCarthy McCarthy McCarthy McCar McCar- thy returned to the airwaves feeling funnier than ever Said it was so cold in Alaska the inhabitants have to live some place else Roy Shields Shield's crew weaving the ditty I III Get a Kick Out of You with velvety velvety velvety vel vel- vety violins formed a musical rainbow rainbow rainbow rain rain- bow Victor Borge awarded the Comic of the Year prize last season isn't to be renewed by his sponsor The Story Tellers The most shocking charges against the Nazis are now being offered by the krauts themselves In acts not words The Black Book of Poland a record record record rec rec- ord of the German atrocities in that land sounds like a report on the behavior of savage beasts Rex Stout has compiled the pre-Pearl pre Harbor quotes of some of the brothers broth broth- ers m in congress which will make a book called The Illustrious Dunder Dunder- heads Frank Sullivan will quip the introduction and Gropper's Croppers caricatures caricatures caricatures cari cari- will make the squirming complete A nice dab of fiction is Mrs Willoughby's Letters by Mary Elizabeth Plummer in Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic Monthly Incidentally that monthly is on the hustle nowadays going in heavy for promotion trying to pull away presumably from the graybeard clientele The Most fost Beautiful ul Girl on Broadway according according according accord accord- ing to Harry Thompson hi m Cosmopolitan Cosmopolitan Cosmopolitan Cosmo Cosmo- politan hails from Sioux City She is Constance Moore The Front Pages Proof that Vichy has accepted the brute philosophy philosophy philosophy philos philos- ophy of its Nazi masters was confirmed confirmed confirmed con con- firmed by the poignant headline in one gazette Vichy to Jail Priests Aiding Jewish Children The Mirrors Mirror's breezy interview with Special U. U S. S Prosecutor Oscar Ewing he sent Pelley to prison for 15 years revealed that his storm- storm troops sent Pelley 10 a month of them during one month before the trial After his conviction they sent him about daily The most arresting news story locally was that one about the Very Rev R. R I. I Gannon president of Fordham who publicly confessed that his rus prewar prewar prewar pre pre- war isolationist views were wrong and that President Roosevelt was right If he said the President President President Pres Pres- ident had listened to me China Chinn Russia Russia Russia Rus Rus- sia and Great Britain would now be prostrate and we should be facing our zero hour alone and pared Edward G. G Robinson the star was coming out of Dinty Moores Moore's Street rendezvous when someone someone someone some some- one pointed out Detective Johnny Broderick passing by Oh the famed film hero I once played Broderick on the screen Id I'd love to meet him Ive I've heard so much about him A pal introduced them This is isa isa isa a real thrill said the movie star But another thrill Id I'd enjoy would be to go with you when you and your colleagues are arc shooting it out with gangsters I dont don't think you'd enjoy that Mr Robinson said Broderick When hoodlums shoot at cops they dont don't use blanks One of the more amusing Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington stories unquestionably untrue untrue untrue un un- un- un true concerns Halifax and Mr President the British ambassador ambassador ambassador ambas ambas- is supposed to have said when I was viceroy of I felt that all of would have understood me overnight had I wrapped myself in a sheet and sat on the floor with Gandhi Then why didn't you asked the President Because blandly the would have understood un un- but but Britain Britain |