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Show Innocent Bystander The Cinemagicians: Paved with guffaws, "Road to Utopia" has Bmg and Bob performing their whackro-batics. whackro-batics. . . . "Sunbonnet Sue" packs the nostalgic charm of a family album-playing a heartful of Gus Edward's Ed-ward's lilts. . . . "Open City" (which was produced In Italy) is a slam bang-up tribute to the Intrepid Italian Ital-ian UnLgrounders. ... "The Sauor Takes a Wife" is a fluffy little romantic ro-mantic fable with Robert Walker and June Allyson whipping up the froth. . . . "Six Gun Man" is a stenciled plot, repititious as hiccups, . . . Advance reports say that "Journey "Jour-ney Together," an importation from Britain by Terrence Ratigan, will be a big click. . . . "Phantom Express" Ex-press" co-stars a yawn and a snore. The Radio: The newest man-wife combo on the air is Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wilson of Akron, Ohio, and these parts. Via Station WLIB once weekly. . . . Billy Halop's emoting on CBS' "Aftermath" is a welcome addition. He recently returned from the wars. . . . "Duffy's Tavern is cooked up by only 11 gag-writers . . . "Dead End" was loaded vitn earthy lingo. But the roughest word in the Theatre Guild's ( version on the networks was "jerk." Bigtown Newsreel: Honorable John Coffee of the House of Representatives Repre-sentatives week-ending from the Capitol at the Pierre. . . . Anita Colby, the model's model. . . Ann Sothern, the star, paying an unexpected unex-pected visit to the 52nd street joynts and delighting the proprietors of same. . . . Don DeFore (the orchestra orches-tra leader in the film, "Stork Club") In town to rehearse with "Judy O'Connor," which opens in Apr. . . . Claudette Colbert, whose husband Is a specialist on hay-fever and allergies, aller-gies, but she suffers and suffers and Buffers all year 'round. . . . Martha Raye carrying her beautiful baby from the St. Moritz to a waiting cab and the choo-choo to Chi. t Sallies in Our Alley: Jackie Green, the Embassy Club clown, was in a Broadway restaurant and asked a waiter the price of dinner. "We have two dinners one for $2 and another for $5," was the reply. . . . "What do I get extra on the $5 dinner?" asked Green. . . . "Prestige," "Pres-tige," was the snapper. ... Harvey Har-vey Stone says Sinatra has muscles now from carrying all that money to all those banks. . . . Latin Quarter boss Lou Walters asked an ctor if he knew what an atheist was. . . . "Sure," was the retort, "someone who don't believe in Looey B. Mayer!" Novelette: When Harry Tugend (who wrote the film "Wake Up and Live") was an unknown writer, he courted Jean Barkow. ... At the time she was Billy Rose's Girl Friday. Fri-day. . . . "Why do you go around with a nobody?" Rose asked her "Hook up with a success or some guy likely to be onel" . . . Jean dis regarded the counsel and married Tugend. . . . They've been living (happily ever after) in Movietown, where Tugend is now Paramount Studio's executive producer. ... He will soon produce Paramo'unt's film, "The Life of Billy Rose." Three months ago the U. S. Army in Germany discovered the lists of Nazi sympathizers in the U. S. A. Army officials promised the lists would be made public. The State Dep't promised the lists would be made public. A. Cong. Committee promised the lists would be made public. . . . And what happened? Absolutely nothingl After all those promises the lists are still a secret. se-cret. And even the reason the lists are being hushed up is a secret. Quotation Marksmanship: K. Roos: Shall we split a kiss? . . Anon: Rudeness is the reply we "cannot "can-not think of. . . J. M. Barrie: I am not young enough to know everything. every-thing. . . . Virginia Faulkner: The decoration was not so much period as exclamation point. . . Stefan Zweig: The lark whirred upward like a skyrocket of delight. . Chris Morley: The extraordinary "insect obhgato of Summer nights H. V Morton: Conversation as" fori mal as a minuet. . c E Coe-As Coe-As naked as a peeled "banana. . . ' but a he is a handle which fits them au- . . Sax Rohmer: A smile 30 years her junior. . He ' l, " Broun: The abMty ,0 I ve V U the Chicf character, tic which distinguishes the human beings from the beasts. . . . g pic it aosTtor - f' Sty,ptllev:;;;7r-- at a 5-nd s.V . , Johnson wi" die hl.r Ove y :'SMlh barred sorely an - --o- . :h: "sf"--'-1- wotUdhke ioC,3 ?WtS lh!,t " |
