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Show m 'Notes of an " r ".'" i . 1 Innocent Bystander: The Moom Pitchers: Lana Turner, Turn-er, whose marriages are always headlined, now appears in "Marriage "Mar-riage Is a Private Affair." Lana carries on an absorbing cinema romance ro-mance as though she invented kisses, while your eyes carry on a romance with Lana's Turners. . . . A comedy, "Rainbow Island," stars a sarong, ably supported by Dotty Lamour. The lilts are infectious enough to have a juke box named after them. . . . "Abroad With Two Yanks" exhibits some lusty, hair-on-the-chest humor, but more often the wheezes are tripping over their beards. . . . "San Fernando Valley" Val-ley" offers a batch of scenic-knacks until the script ruins the view. ... A postwar theme is handled shabbily in "My Buddy," making it the first atrocity of peace. . . . "Murders in the Blue Room" searches for goosepimples and gets lost in a deep yawn. . . . Hollywood entertainers overseas were shoved a fortnight ago. Recently Olivia De-Havilland De-Havilland was stricken with pneumonia pneu-monia while touring the Pacific war zones. The Intelligentsia: Paul Kennedy of the Times cinema staff is en route to Spain to report the imminent immi-nent blowofl there. His ancestry is Irish-Spanish. . . . One of the first fashion editors to go overseas will be Life's new staffer, handsome Elmer El-mer Lower destination Paris. . . . Henry C. Cassidy's piece on what to do with German prisoners is the feature fea-ture of The Atlantic Monthly. . . . Gen'l Robert Johnson's first book, "But, General Johnson," (Princeton Univ. Press) contains a chapter titled: ti-tled: "The News, the Columnists, and the Commentators." Quotation Marksmanship: Chas. Dana Gibson: A lady is a woman who always remembers others and never forgets herself. . . . Dwight Moody:, I never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself. . . . J. Hamilton: Only a wise man knows if he fell in love or was trapped into it. . . . Will Rogers: Rog-ers: I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. . . . H. R. Warfel: He made words march like warriors against ignorance. . . . Margaret Halsey: Bleak as the end of a love affair. . . . M, Dooley: The man who gets fat under the belt isn't as bad as the man who gets fat under the hat. Broadway Ballad: Make mine Manhattan when the Autumn Au-tumn brings Its soft enchantment to the noisy town ... When mem'ries brush the heart with silken wings, ' And all the leaves are turning golden brown. Make mine M anhatlanwhen the moon is loio, And tiny taverns bid you enter in . . . And thoughts go drifting back to long ago ... ' When constancy was marked the ' Crowning Sin. i And yet how soon a foolish lad can learn, That it was you who gave the nights their charm, That it was you who made the torch-fires torch-fires burn In that brief space before we came ' to harm . . . That it was you who made Manhattan m ine When Autumn spilled its cask of golden gold-en wine! Don Wahn. Ha-Hallywood: It happened on the MGM lot. A woman writer from New York saw a Red Cross mobile unit parked in front of one of the studios. She hadn't been to ttie blood bank in quite a spell and she thought this would be a good time to donate. As a nurse checked on her history, his-tory, it was discovered that the would-be blood giver was not an MGM employee. The nurse consulted with the interne, in-terne, the interne consulted with the doctor and the doctor pondered with his hand to chin. "I guess it won't hurt," he finally decided, "but please keep it under your hat. We are not supposed to take anything on this trip but Metro blood." It was at a cocktail party in Washington. Wash-ington. A dowager asked a British Major: "What about the privileged classes in England?" "I presume, madam," was his dead-pan reply, "you are speaking of your countrymen, because at the present time the only privileged class in England are the Ameri- cans." True Story: A Navy officer writes us that a Naval hospital held a contest con-test among the patients to find out how many could pick Betty Gra ble's legs out of a batch of leg pictures. pic-tures. The only one who could identifj them was a chaplain! Add public service: NBC's program, pro-gram, "World's Great Novels," which dramatizes the best literature. litera-ture. . . . The news about another son of Ring Lardner being killed in action saddened the craft. |