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Show Tbe Broadway Express . The Stage Door: Craig Reynolds, first actor to enlist (and the first to get hit with a Purple Heart), gets so few roles these days he has to take odd jobs to balance the budget. . . . Salaries are rolling back. The $200 a week comediocrities again are being offered $200, instead of the wartime bribe paychecks and ac- Jolson Story" now is figured "in excess ex-cess of five million bux." . . . The dog in "Lovely Me" has been ordered or-dered to move from his boarding house because he comes in too late j (after curtain time) and wakes up j the other dogs. . . . The role of the j fencing champ (he appears only in the first act) of "Cycano" is so j strenuous he has to alternate with another. . . . And you have troubles? Two days after Helen Walker's producer pro-ducer announced she would dance "for the first time" in her next role, ' she was badly fractured in a crash. Midtown Vignette: Norman Cordon is the 6' 4 basso of the Met. He is also the top male singer in the revived "Street Scene." . . Norman believes in direct action. ... He was dining hi a midtown spot when a clunk at the next table slandered FDR and boosted Hitler. . , . Cordon went over, grabbed the nuisance in his arms, carried him to the street and dumped him into the gutter, saying: "You're spoiling my dinner, Adolf!" The Fress Box: Georgia offered a striking illustration of the methods meth-ods used by Fascists to take advantage advan-tage of confusion and strong-arm their way to powercompletely disregarding dis-regarding the laws. Governor Ar-nall Ar-nall deserves support for refusing to be pushed around by the Tal-madge Tal-madge hoodlums. The actions of those muscle-men gave America a chilling example of fascism in action. ac-tion. ... A Bawstin gazette observed so many generals and admirals are getting top jobs, Washington is no place for a felt hat. . . . After giving giv-ing the news from Dixie the onceover, once-over, you'd never think the Emancipation Eman-cipation Proclamation was signed 84 years ago. . . . The Jersey Journal solved the mystery of the "J. S." on the new FDR dimes after check-' ing with the government. They do not stand for Joe Stalin. They are the initials of John Sinnock, chief of the Philly mint. Character Study: He underpays his help but overtips the waiter. wait-er. . , . He takes cabs to avoid subway crowds but wrestles through choked theater lobbies for a few puffs on a clggie. , . . He greets every corny line In a show with a cornier comment but thinks a guy is a celebrity when he has more wives than chil-, dren. The Late Watch: Those stratosphere strato-sphere salaries paid H'wood stars are coming down fast. Drop in box office of-fice receipts, curtailed production, etc., have studios pruning costly player rosters. Many stars, however, how-ever, are willing to take a shave. Supply and demand, you know. . .. . Sonora will market 20 million new black label platters at 39 cents retail re-tail That 20 to 40 p.c. under current cur-rent market and is the first price break in this field since Dec. 7, 1941. . . . Tropical Park track reports at-' tendance was up 50,000 but the "take" is down 10 per cent. . . . The police have notified all night clubs they must be closed and empty at 4 a. m. This is very funny considering consider-ing most joynts are empty much earlier. New York Novelette: Justin McCarthy, the young lone-wolf stick-up fool (who was collared recently), is well known to Broadwaysenhelmers. . . . He old several of them plenty of "shares" in an electronic and helicopter firm which flopped. . . . Most of his suckers are no little miffed with Justin because "he didn't at least apologize" with some of the loot he got away with sticking up night club patrons in their cars as they waited for lights' to change. ... Re almost talked a famed radio star Into starting a manufacturing manu-facturing company with him. . . . One of his stock victims was ready to tell the gendarme about him six months ago (which would have ended his career ca-reer of crime before it started), but Justin talked him out of It. . . . The irony of it: Had he gone to the hoosegow then the term would have keen short. Now he may spend hit life in jail. , Truman's admiration for Sec'y of State Marshall amounts to hero worship. wor-ship. He is said to have referred to Marshall as "the greatest living American." . . . Alan Ladd doesn't know when he's well off; Just bought a coast night club. . . ; Despite the slump everywhere, gambling houses across the river report a 15. per cent uptake.:. . . Bookies arc blowing their tops because too many femmes are horning into their racket ... Mrs. FDR shaking hands with a passerby admirer near the Sherry-Netherland Sherry-Netherland hotel |
