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Show iiiiiiii Man About Totvn: Faces About Town: U. S. Senator Warren Magnuson in the St. Morit2 foyer. . , . Lovely Jan Clayton, the "Carousel" star, actually being 6een in public with a critic! . . . Dame May Whitty, the 80-year-old star, whose mute eloquence in the last act of "Therese" at the Billmore is something for players to study. , . . Sec'y of the Treasury Vinson encountering en-countering H. Morgcnthau and saying: say-ing: "You're a smart man, Henry; you got out at the top!" ... In Sar-di's, Sar-di's, Nancy Walker swapping salutes, sa-lutes, while a one-time "world's most famous woman" went unrecognized unrec-ognized Irene Castle. Sallies In Our Alley: Some mid- I towners were planning a testimonial dinner for a showman and wondered won-dered who to get for toastmaster. "If we can't get Jimmy Walker," one said, "how about Nick Kenny7" . . . "Whatl" exclaimed another, "And have all the introductions in rhyme?" . . . Ozzie Nelson knows some actors in a new Broadway 6how who fell asleep watching critic George Jean Nathan! Midtown Vignette: She has a special spe-cial job in a swank dinner place studying the patrons the proprietor wants to see in his place often. If she approves "their looks," she learns their names and addresses, and they go on the spot's mailing list, etc. . . . Last night she was depressed. . . . The boss asked her: "What's on your mind your feller?" fel-ler?" . . . "Yes," she said. "We had a fight. I told him to romance everything in skirts In the U. S. and then come back to me," . . . "Is that why you're so unhappy?" she was asked. . . . "No," she replied, "it's this: After I told him that, phoned the N. Y. Mirror and asked them how many girls there are in the U. S. A." . . . "And how. many are there?" asked the boss. . . . n67,670,302r' she sighed. BIgtown Side-shows: When the President was here for Navy Day he congratulated the Mayor on finding find-ing a new home. . . . "Thanks," said the Li'l Flower, "you know it takes a lot of work hunting a new house these days. I trust you don't have to do that for a long, long time." ... An amorous old fellow leaned across the table and whispered whis-pered through the smoky night club atmosphere: "Let's go some place where we'll be alone." . . . "Okay," drawled bis cutie. "Let's each go home." . . . Martin Ragaway, a gag-writer, gag-writer, phoned NBC's George Wolf. When Wolf learned it was Ragaway, he barked: "Gwan, you phony. The wily time you ever call me is when you want something!" . . . "Go ahead, keep on talking," was the candid retort "I'll think of something!" some-thing!" The Big-TIme: "The Lost Weekend," Week-end," an intoxicating epic, with flawless acting by Ray Milland, Jane Wyman and the others a Paramount click. . . . Jeanne Burns at the Monkey Bar . . . Cass Daley's Sunday progTam via NBC. . . . The dancing of Kim and Kathy Gaynes In "The Girl from Nantucket." . . , Lee Sullivan's thrushing. . . . Jack Smith's on CBS. . . . "Tubby, the Tuba" (a Cosmo recording), a grand novelty. It's supposed to be the tragic tale of a tuba, unhappy because be-cause the other instruments make fun of him as all he can do is go oomp ah-oompah. Main Stem Ticker: More Important Impor-tant than the election or other news around our sector was the death of Jerome Kern. . . . There's a valet at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel who was once an Olympic track champ. Each ayem. he paces three miles around the park and used to be accompanied ac-companied by his dog. The dog is now ten years old and is winded. It now sits on a bench and waits for him. . . . Since Music Corp. of America signed up Mayor La-Guardia La-Guardia for a radio spot, wags say: "Looks like you have to break In your act at City Hall before MCA is Interested!" Sounds In the Night: At Reuben's: "She's glad the war is over. Now she can get parts for her face." . . . At Enduro: "He's an m.c. mediocre medi-ocre comic." ... At the Blue Angel: "She's the daughter of a social butterfly but-terfly and he's a son of a bee." . . . At Villepigue's: "She thinks she has a corner on his love when she merely mere-ly has one of the points of a triangle tri-angle ... In the Dixie lobby: "Do you think Mark Twain will ever become be-come another Bennett Cerf?" Memos of a Mldnlghter: Guy Lombardo walked away with a Cleveland newspaper poll (as the nation's outstanding dance band) for the umpteenth time. ... A Victoria Hotel (Candlelight Room) blonde waitress, they insist, Is the daughtez of a real countess. . . . Jimmy Ryan's benefit for that brave cop (killed by bandits) brought $1,000 tc his family. . . . Midtown Lexington Avenue, they tell you, is getting unsafe un-safe for unescorted males aftei dark. . . . It's a boy for the Ed (CBS) Murrows In London. i |