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Show II Ml if Li I L- .iuLJj Notes of an Innocent Bystander : The Magic Lanterns: Mary Martin, Mar-tin, already topping the newest stage hit, "Venus," presides over a daffy dilly on the screen called "True to Life" . . . "Phantom of the Opera" gives you more opera than phantom this time, with Nelson Eddy, Susanna Susan-na Foster and Jane Farrar pouring it on vocally. Claude Rains is the head skulker, but his chills run second sec-ond to the trills . . . "Behind the Rising Sun" is grim stuff about the war against the Japs. Its barbarities barbari-ties were authenticated by Correspondent Corre-spondent James Young, who lived among the beheaders for years. Margo and Don Douglas are the pair who stir up the Japs' furies. The Dials: The AFL urged NBC to muzzle Kaltenborn because of his severe jabs at labor unions. The network, however, permits him to continue expressing his opinions freely, even if they irk you or me . . . The best answer to any oral attack, as the AFL probably will agree, is not suppression, but facts. When civil liberties go down the drain so will labor's . . . We thawt only columnists took, bows- for scoops. But every hour, via its radio offerings, the N. Y. Times announced Its beat in reporting that ltaly would declare war on Germany . .. . Fred Waring likes to hurl numbers around on his show how' many performers, perform-ers, etc. He announced 176 piano keys for a selection. How many piccolo pic-colo holes? . . . Jack Benny's new corps of writers caught his style admirably on Jack's first out and added a little more lunacy . .- . The other night a band came on the air unaccompanied by that claquey hand-clapping and . synthetic cheering. cheer-ing. Or could I have just dreamed that? Memos of a Midnighter: MGM has Junked "They Were Expendable," a best seller! . . . Jockey Nick Wall and his wife .have reconciled after a long sep , . . Insiders think that if Durocher Is dropped as Dodgers' pilot pi-lot his successor may be the gent who once said: "Is Brooklyn still in the National League?" Bill Terry . . . "Lassie," the dog star (of the fllm.by that name at the Music Hall), Is a him real name is PaL The owner sold him for $10 . . . After seeing 'the preview in H'wood he came out' muttering: "I've thrown away a. fortune!" . . . Garbo has given In to Ernest Pascal's pleading to go to London and star In Shaw's "St. Joan." From the Irish Echo: "Premier De Valera of Eire succeeded, after considerable time and effort, in making mak-ing Hitler pay for the restoration of a synagogue in Dublin which had been destroyed by Nazi airmen when they bombed the city a couple of years ago. Mr. De Valera acted in fulfillment of a promise to the Jews of Eire that their lives and property would be protected by the government govern-ment against the acts of any enemy of the country." Quotation Marksmanship: A. Murray: Mur-ray: She's the only one I know who always seems to rhumba into a room . . . Mere: Beauty is the first present pres-ent nature gives to woman and the first it takes away . . . Denham: Ambition is like love impatient both of delays and rivals . . . Moore: Playful blushes that seem but luminous lumi-nous escapes of thought . . . E. Cu-neo: Cu-neo: Hitler's One-World Unnnimos-lty Unnnimos-lty . . . H. Klurfeld: Duce gave Italy roads, but tine Allies are giving It hot and cold running Nazis . . , E. Gillignn: The village went to sleep window by window . . . H. Broun: She balanced her dignity on the tip of her nose . . . Confucius: If you lose your temper, you've lost the argument . . . Anon's definition of Intoxicated: To feel sophisticated and not be able to pronounce It. Trlvnto White House polls show Wnllnce has twice the support for the vice presidency ns the combined vote of all his opponents, Including J. Byrnes, P. McNutt, Mr. Justice Douglas nnd J. Wlnant ... A Capitol Capi-tol correspondent Is In a Jam with colleagues for supposedly making remarks re-marks to their wives . . . The Stork Club has gone high-toned. Last night Its guests Included America's famous fa-mous poet, Joseph Auslnndor, nnd Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berlo Jr., nnd his wife ... In tho film, "Spitfire." the Into Leslie Howard (who perished In a plane) says: "Whnt's tho use of Inventing plnncsT They only kill pcoplcl" . . . L.H.U. of the Times records tills nifty: "Washington Is a placo where everyone Is welcome but no one Is missed." Ills eliiini enjoy relating Otis limit lovable Harney Hnruch, whose counsel Is often sought by statesmen . . . Hnnieh Is hard of hearing nnd wears device which Is connected with pome dry butteries concrnled In cont pocket. These batteries are hnrd to net nowaday - so when lhi-ruch lhi-ruch Is buttonholed by n bore or some tlmc-wnslcr, he reaches Inlo Ida pocket nnd dlsronnecls Ihe batteries bat-teries by merely pushing the "OlT" button . . . The bole keeps invito; way, but Umueli doesn't hear u Uilii. |