Show Columnist Soft Shoeing to Press The rousing click of Mike Todds Todd's production As the Girls Go sprouts a type of ot musical orchid Inthe inthe in inthe the Winter Garden that once planted in the Broadway jungles Bobby Clarks Clark's rampaging again he is not in the hit proves merely a star-but star a comet Mikes Mike's is like this The showman made and dropped a fortune fortune fortune for- for tune The other day he informed an interviewer I have been recuperating Iron from prosperity I Tweaking Hollywoods Hollywood's nose isn't the playful sport it used to be when you witness fine cinemas like Joan The of Arc Johnny Johnns Belinda or Snake Pit Malcolm Johnsons Johnson's NY Sun Sun series about waterfront mobsters is Pulitzer bait Inside the darkest Manhattan of evening steer clear of six footers fear they might be The upper right hand corner comer of Looks Look's page 31 has a photo of Wendy Burden that is bound tomake tomake to tomake make male blood pressure zoom Miguel Mouse has outlasted all the other stars Been neen amusing decades the public for two Why the adjective colossal Is popular in l The cost of Technicolor alone in some recent recent recent re re- re- re cent flicks Is more than one million mil mU- lion bu bux Richard Wid Wid- marks mark's portrayal of a meanie with a Dracula chuckle helped him scale the heights heights but but repetition repe repe- of the same characterization I tion Is starting to wear thin J. J Benny can be bc funny without using mental maladies as a subject Whoever dreamed up those anti antl- subway placards merits a bravo Publicity at its most potent M Mag Mg g scrivener Fred once offered the best description of Tallulah Trying to put Miss Bankhead Bankhead Bankhead Bank- Bank head on paper Is like trying to stuff a tornado Into a bottle Most arre arresting ting feature on is in interviews interviews in in- with children Topflight human interest Theres There's been arash arash a arash rash of private eye films However none has matched the meller meller-diller that started the cycle The The Maltese Falcon 1 Standees at hit Mt shows have hats their own laws They reserve a spot by tossing toning a coat coal over the railing That ThaI remains their vantage point throughout through through- out the performance Agnes if Moorehead's recording of Sorry Wrong Number strums the spine until un lm- un- un til Iii it t quivers with tingles A I dagger dagger dagger dag dag- ger couldn't pierce you any dee deeper er than the nasal squeals of radios radio's tenors Replicas of Arturo Godfreys Godfrey's Godfrey's Godfreys God God- I freys frey's re going easy manner mamer are all over the kilocycles None has been able to match the original Connie Comie Homes Hairier on the Paramount stage I purr PUN nicely Her figger jigger also fills a gown expertly expertly overflowing in the right places The seater Trans Trans-Lux on St St. has some filling eye decor decor decor-a a midget Music Hall Listen to Sophie Tucker and you'll understand why no one has been able to usurp her shouting coon franchise film her would make Its It's practically a history of show biz bia The downfall of political forecasters forecasters forecasters fore fore- casters doesn't s seem em to hamper the sportscasters and their predictions on a string of games Nothing Nothing Nothing Noth Noth- ing could be so Few can equal Robert Montgomery's knack for putting the crackle in a flip crack His fooling in the June Bride film is saucy sassy and slick Bob nob Hopes Hope's recording of Buttons Buttons But tons and Bows is one of the most ear-beguiling ear versions of that lilt The revival reviva revival re re- re- re vival viva of The Roosevelt Story at the Republic on nOway gives you another opportunity to enjoy it Nothing is more dramatic than seeing and listening to his memorable voice Boos are deafening when Cong Congo Thomas appears in newsreels He lie certainly rates being number one in the Hiss Parade Jocks Disc spin Artie Shaws Shaw's old theme song Nightmare Nightmare Nightmare Night mare more often The weird me melody melody mel mel- ody makes the vertebrae tingle The only place the world still looks nice and peaceful is in the travelogues Their camera lens must be rose tinted One of the agreeable surprises in the movie Unfaithfully Yours is Rudy Vall Vallee's es e's amusing portrait of a snob The guy can act The ditty Bluebird of Happiness has a nice swing to its melody but the lyrics wear corn tassels Sound like a speech from East Lynne Lynrae You cant can't win wim H Hollywood has at- at ways ays been paddled for ignoring real ity tty Now Nou some movie reviewers ble bIt that The Snake Pit is too realistic realis realis- tic Oddest initial be longs to an actress in Edward Eduard Ah h Son Sori No won cion Oder O der usherettes in n legit legi show Places lace ar are so puny Most of em are stage struck and ana their u use salaries to 10 pay fol for drama lessons Dont Don't believe tho fables about Hollywood producers be ing ng nincompoops oo s. s Most host are he hep gent and ald one producer is a Phi Beta Bet Ka Kappa Rappa Pa man Union Sq have a II new target larget Polls Pollsters err |