| Show 1 r 1 J Snowflakes King George of Greece is irked with his public relations experts They kept him staying in his London po hotel tel room during the Athens mess instead of okaying His Highness' Highness usual routine of making the London late places surrounded by a bevy of beauts Cubas Cuba's Batista will settle in Brazil h r r 7 I. I I The Federal Trade commission commissions is s checking up on endorsers of products prod prod- in ads Wants to find out if the Blebs who endorse them actually I Ise use se them The reason for the New York butcher strike is this The clamped down hard on black marketing The butchers earned the fine was too high to tomake tomake make make any profit even at bm fees They decided it was cheaper to get I put EThey ut of business than make wholesalers whole- whole salers rich and themselves poor Add rackets Phones in Florida are bringing as high as each from people who lost theirs to the I armed forces a year ago The I mobs are set to run the ling in Mexico and Havana They had been figuring on the tracks suffering suffering suf sur- fering disaster for more than a year Sidney Kingsley dashed off a five page scenario in 30 minutes minutes minutes min min- utes for which Zanuck paid h him m More than a 1000 smackers per minute Though war plant absenteeism m was was a contributing factor the Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington grapevine is saying that the main reason for closing the tracks was this congress was preparing preparing- to stick a 10 per cent tax on the and the track owners instead instead instead in in- stead of cooperating gladly in view of the fortunes they've garnered lately made ready to fight it It was their attitude more than anything anything anything any any- thing else which irritated the powers powers powers pow pow- ers that be I The first Broadway hit show to beat the jinx of the amusement page alphabetical listing is A Bell for Adano Many shows that I put an A uA in front of the title tite to inherit the top of the list flopped U Angel Street was the exception for a long time The commies in Indianapolis Erie and Buffalo last week started their campaign to discredit man G-man Hoo Hoover Hoorer er with a national national national na na- na- na smear attack They say N. N Y Times' Times critic Brooks Atkinson Atkinson Atkinson Atkin Atkin- son now in the hospital after a long session covering Chinas China's part in the war doesn't want to resume drama He prefers doing something important such as his recent recent recent re re- re- re cent assignment His excellent reports reports reports re re- re- re ports are credited with actually in influencing influencing influencing in- in U. U S. S policy in the Orient Faces About Town Libby Holman Holman Hol- Hol man the blues tobacco thrush-tobacco heiress heiress heiress heir heir- ess who is quietly backing Broadway shows Band chief John Kirby wealthier after winning a li libel libel libel li- li bel action from a Pittsburgh writer who cast aspersions on his draft sta status Canary Bernice Parks currently at the St. St Regis who will decorate Lifes Life's pages as best- best I dressed gal She has 16 fur coats Her match book covers feature photos of her feller Horace MacMahon one of the stages stage's capa- capa bles serving the nation by delivering delivering deliver deliver- ing war bond speeches while speeches while waiting waiting waiting wait wait- ing for producers to come to their senses Milton Berle who at this tardy time is feuding with Joe E. E Lewis over the song Sam You Made the Pants Too Long Apparently after reading the Fight or Work edict Story of the Week By Dr Elisha A. A King Do you remember the Indian juggler described by William Hazlitt in one of his famous essays The juggler was perfect in throwing and catching brass balls keeping balls keeping four in the air at once That was his whole stock in trade but it was the best he had Seeing a number of people go to the Shrine of the Virgin Mother bowing praying etc I he became interested and wanted to worship Final Finally he went in squatted in front of the image and performed It was the best he had to offer and doubtless acceptable I mention this because of a report from Guadalcanal describing a Christmas evening service Father Gehring celebrated midnight Mass v but no one could play Christmas music A soldier had gotten a small r organ organ from somewhere but no one onel l- l could play it However one man mani f found und r i 4 was wa who knew only one tune 4 r Mama so he played that With the heavens for a roof Mass was said in Latin a Jewish boy played the one piece he knew and several hundred Protestants Catholics Catho Catho- lies and Jews knelt and listened 1 r t The Talk about dei de de- i nation When CBS last week dropped t Raymond Scotts Scott's piece 20 orchestra which cost the network more than r in two years the spot was inherited by Milt Herth's I band which has only three musi musi- Ted Adams pro acting if ducer of We uWe the 4 People had no trouble booking H. H Hodgkins the youthful spy-catcher spy for the pro pro- gram Because Adams summered sum sum- near where the spies landed V for for 25 years I l r. r A 1 h |
