Show Man About Town Memos lemos of a 1 Insiders hear next years year's flying time from N. N Y to Miami will be minutes S Many of the show g gals ls are worried silly that their names willbe will willbe willbe be dragged into the AI Alvin in Paris football football football foot foot- ball bribe scandal because they were Paris' Paris dates Paris hasn't had so much publicity since French post post- cards John Murray Andersons Anderson's chums hear he is experimenting with the Russian youth serum He Heis Heis Heis is in his COs Bing will make close to a million dollars out of his platters this year not including his many other chores Rodgers Hodgers 8 Hammerstein are taking no risk with their gold mine Annie Get Your Gun They arc are paying Mary Jane Walsh the highest wage yet for Cor an understudy understudy just just to stand by in the wings per week Top loss to Moss Hart whose apt was burgled was the gold case signed by the cast of Winged Victory Broadway Ballad By Don Wahn Vahn I do not blame the young for being sick Of giving alms to beggars of the past Why should they turn to watch a shabby trick Why should they care if terror joined the cast We had oui ou roses redolent of spring We Ve had our nights of revelry and mirth We Ve had the softest softest softest soft soft- est loveliest songs to sing We had the shining rapture of ot the earth Yes it is gone and shortly we will go The golden girls the roses and the wine And newer lads will find the nights a with aglow with all the misty magic that was mine And when they find that love Jove and beauty die I hope they leave more gracefully I than I. I The Broadway Lights J. J Durante Durante Durante Du- Du rante X Cugat and the dice tables were the reason the new Flamingo Las Vegas attracted patrons in the first three days Mid Midtown town hotels had their worst week in five years One had empty rooms another and another Buddy Kaye made so much coin out of the ditty Till the End of Time that he is among the producers of the new Jerome Robbins show Look Ma Im I'm Dancing A short titled The uThe Last Bomb comes across with atomic impact particularly particularly particuLarly one episode wherein in the camera camera camera cam cam- era slowly moves through the rows of Df graves at Iwo Jima After viewIng view- view Ing that you'll cherish every moment moment momet mo mo- ment met of pea peace e like it was the last minute of your life Broadway Story The mos mos mos' valuable song copyright in the world is White Christmas It was published in 1942 1912 and sold over one million copies during during dur dur- ing lug its first four months On some days it sold over copies Each year ear since it was purchased by peo peo- pie The recordings totaled five million records two records two million of which were vere Bings Bing's version up to this year Decca says this year it sold out-sold any of the previous seasons seasons over over platters But this is why it itIs itIs itIs Is the most valuable copyright j 0 A copyright lasts 56 years It has over 50 years to go goI go- go I and selling at the rate it is going you you can imagine how much I richer the tax department will vilI willI I get The Story Tellers The latest edition edi lion tion of Who's Who Vho reveals that the American general who has won the most decorations 40 is Brig Gen Edgar K Hume This is the first time we ever came across his name J Joff off Keates Keate's cartoon has been widely reprinted in the di di- A child specialist is giving advice to a mother have to handle this child carefully remember remember remember ber youre you're dealing with a sensitive strung high-strung little stinker The Minnesota state prisons prison's newspaper edited by a convict ran this editorially editorially edi edi- tonally Those caught stealing items from the papers will be dropped from our list of contributors tors Stealing from another's writings writings writings writ writ- ings is one of the lowest bits of thievery ery cry Washington newsmen enjoy spinning this one A group of them once accompanied to toa a show They thanked a secret service man for providing them with excellent scats seats Dont mention it the secret retorted Just notice the seating arrangement You'll discover no one can tal take e a shot at the President without hitting one or two reporters first Quotation l Marksmanship T. T Parker Democracy means not Iam I Iam Iam am as gO good d' d das as you are but You are as good as I am Maurois l Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form E. E Brandeis Sometimes you pay compliments and sometimes you pay for them P P. P Davis And so they were divorced and loved happily ever after affer Ed Wynn It was so cold my blankets fought to get on the bottom M. M Komroff Kom Kom- roil roff What can you expect of a day that begins begin's getting up in the morn |