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Show 111, Broadway Bystander The Front Pages: Editorials expressed ex-pressed horror over the Hun atrocities atroci-ties in Poland, where the aim is to t exterminate the people. Some of the same pages called Rogert E. Sherwood "war-monger" when he pitied Poland in "There Shall Be No Night" . . . The U. S. correspondents corre-spondents got lippy to the British censors. Raymond Daniell called them more damaging to the English Eng-lish cause than bombs. Drew Mid-dleton Mid-dleton departed from the AP's "impersonal" "im-personal" policy long enough to register reg-ister his sassy say-so . . The blast got results . . . Eugene Lyons explains ex-plains why so many youngsters are covering the war fronts: Wages. The ' famous ones are cashing in via ra dio, lectures, etc. "That is how it happens." says Lyons in "Eye Witness" Wit-ness" (news story anthology), "that there are more distinguished foreign for-eign correspondents at a luncheon of the Overseas Press club than in the world beyond, even when world-shaking world-shaking events are taking place" . . . The Post's Jack Milcy rates picking All - American footballers second to cutting out paper dolls. "Putting players the experts have never seen on teams that don't exist," ex-ist," he calls it ... It looks like Virginio Gayda, who yells Mussolini's Musso-lini's editorial "boos," hasn't got many Greek readers. Typewriter Ribbons: Anon's: Fame is the refreshment that comes when wiping off the perspiration of a career's hard work . . . H. Hersh-fleld's: Hersh-fleld's: The streets would be safer ,- for pedestrians and motorists if all the cars that aren't paid for were removed . . . The Thomaston (Ga.) Times': It is rare that the gift is worth the obligation it involves . . . Wilson Miner's: I respect faith but doubt is what gets you an education edu-cation . . . Jack Tarver's: A dollar-down-and-your-eyetooth-a-week automobile au-tomobile . . . L. A. Seaman's: The palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward chorus at the prima donna's cue to enter. The Insult Terrible: Erika and Klaus Mann, daughter and son of Thomas Mann (exiled by Hitler), are introducing Hitler's nephew around town. He has written a book about Adolf and is going to lecture in Canada. He is English born and despises his kinsman, whose name he uses, i '!' -'Tennyrate, nephew Hitler was , " . ' -,u first introduced at Dagmar Godow-, Godow-, ky's, where Ilsa Bois found it dif- . flcult to speak to anybody connected with Hitler. Ilsa is a refugee ac- .tress from Germany, and her broth er Curt is now in "Bitter Sweet," the film. ; She was telling friends about meeting Hitler's relative. "I wanted, want-ed, she said, "to make the young man do something just for me. Something with the idea of humbling him" "What did you make him do?" "I asked him to pass me the herring!" her-ring!" Words And Music: Lion Feueht-wanger Feueht-wanger has a sensayuma, although Louis Niier's book, "Thinking on Your Feet," a best-seller, offers the same nifty. Feuchtwanger, they would have you believe, went to see Disney's "Fantasia," which has powerful orchestral tones. The music mu-sic occasionally overpowered him. He told intimates about it "Evidently," "Evi-dently," he said, "Stokowski believes be-lieves that 'life begins at forte.' " When his pals groaned at the broad pun, Feuchtwanger sighed disconsolately, "Oh, well. I guess nobody loves a fact man." Form of Criticism: Prof. Nathan, of the N. Y. Drama Critics' Circle, met a playwright at the Algonquin hotel, a chap whose manuscript Nathan Na-than had promised to look over instead in-stead of overlook. The Regal One shook his head after reading three pages. "You don't like it," sighed the writer sadly, "what do you think it needs?" "First of all," Nathan replied, 'Td suggest perfume." Woof-woof! Bob Benchley of the feelms was visiting a Hollywood dog and cat hospital in search of a pooch. A pal of his trying frantically frantical-ly to locate Benchley (to deliver a message) learned where he was and rushed there. Approaching tie girl at the desk, he asked: "Is Bob Benchley of Metro here?" "Is he an airedale," was the retort, re-tort, "or spitz?" In Other Words: The headlines stated: "Italian Resistance Stiffening!" Stiffen-ing!" Ar.d Al H. observed: "That probably is Italian for rigor mortis." mor-tis." Oop! At the Maison Louis a well-known well-known radio singer button-holed an NBC executive and cooed: "Did you hear me do 'Blueberry Hill' last night?" "Yes," was the answer. "You sounded as though it were too steep for you." Guy Lombardo's line on an American Amer-ican Christmas: "When you hang up your stocking, also be thankful for the country in which you hang up your hat." |