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Show WALTER WINCHELL Show Season Gets Going Stage Door: Two Broadway hits are backed by Chicago racket-coin . . . Producer M. Gordon has chewed his nails down to here. Not only because of recent flops; he also reportedly turned down the hit, "Goodbye, My Fancy.". . . M. Todd's "As the Girls Go" claims a $500,000 advance sale. . . . "Real Gone Gal" Nellie Lutcher has come a long way in a year, "following "fol-lowing the Winchellectricity," reports re-ports a critic. . . . Cole Porter's brand-new chune for his "Kiss Me, Kate" show is tagged "Bianca." Backstagers predict it'll rock the nation. . . . Remember showgal. Gay Orlova? Broadway now has one named Ila Doit. . . . Having trouble getting tix to hits? Then try the midweek matinees, which are slim even for smash-clix. . . . In Playbill (theater program) Eugene Eu-gene Burr writes about show folk superstitions. The reason, he says, shoes shouldn't be placed above you is "they could easily fall and conk you on the noggin." . . . You ain't hep to the jive, Jackson. On the noggin is redundant. When you're conked, you're bit on the noggin. . . . Dig it? . . . (Jes call me perfesserl) The First Nights: The week's initialer, baptized "The Young and Fair," was dunked in lukewarm notices. Dealing with life in a femme boarding school, it was whacked across the girdle for its dramaturgic flaws but the capable cast copped caresses. Reviewers generally regretted that every act wasn't as compelling as some of its episodes. Critic Wm. Hawkins' minority mi-nority report: "There is power and provocative good sense in this play." . . . The next entry was the TMttir Guild's second contrib of th season, "The Silver Whistle." It had the aislemen blowing horns jubilantly, the loudest toots for the expert performance of Jose Ferrer. Reviewer Chapman trumpeted: "Charming fable, captivatingly acted act-ed by Ferrer.' Memos: Edgar A. Poe: One-half the pleasure experienced at a theater arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience. . . , Schopenhauer: Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror. . . . Dumas: Du-mas: One should never take one's daughter to a theater. Hot only are plays immoral; the house itself is immoral. |