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Show Broadway Blues: Memos of a Midnighter: The platter plat-ter firms completed one year's recordings re-cordings in the last dozen weeks. . . . For the first time since the Old Testament a kosher champagne is being marketed. . . . Prettiest gal at the Copa is not in the show. She sells ciggies. Name's Peggy Ellsworth-she Ellsworth-she was Miss Michigan of 1947. . . . Mr. Truman's private tailor (I. Heller) Hel-ler) couldn't crash the cocktail lounge at Lakewood's Grossman until he borrowed a jacket. . . . Are Liberty ships (passing through Pearl Harbor) being outfitted with guns as they were during the war? From the headlines these days Mai Braveman thinks the epitaph epi-taph on the tombstone of World War II must read: "Unrest in Peace." The Airistocrats: The air Is fresher since Bill Shirer's incisive comments returned. He has the knack of merging a jigsaw of world events into a coherent and thoughtful thought-ful picture. . . . "Info, Please" remains re-mains 'the topper among quiz charades. cha-rades. Mainly because Fadiman'a adroit whip-cracking avoids the standard emcee persiflage. . . . The crude scripting on "Hollywood Star Preview" makes it a haven for bromides bro-mides and homesick yawns. . . . Perk up your ears for ABC's "World Security Workshop." The pungent opinion on international issues by collitch students merits a rah-rah-rah. Those who heard the Lonis-Walcott Lonis-Walcott fight (over the air) feel that the N. Y. boxing commission commis-sion should examine not only the hearts of the fighters but also the eyesight of the judges. The Intelligentsia: Books pubs finally fi-nally are feeling the postwar letdown. let-down. One major firm, we hear, will drop half its staff. . . . Add titles that stay in the eyes: "Without Halos" by Bess White Cochran. . . . Bogart made that sensible statement state-ment after Chi fans bluntly convinced con-vinced him he had made a terrible boner. John Garfield is convinced, too. Danny Kaye's "Mitty" film (which started fine) is flopping hard because of that coast-to-coast flight to help commy card-carriers. The latter "used" the H'wood doaps. Things that keep me awake all night: Prof. George Gamow at Cooper union the other night stated: "The sun will burn out in 10 billion years." The Late Watch: At Joe and Nino's a visiting H'wood celeb told bossman Guiseppe the "secret" recipe rec-ipe for Movietown's over-swanky Caesar salad. Joe replied: "My mother used to serve it to us in Genoa. Only she didn't call it Caesar salad she called it left-overs." . . . A famed star (in 1930 musicals) now is destitute in H'wood. Her son (by a millionaire she divorced) refuses to help her because she married another an-other man. Since her grown son is wealthy she can't get help from the motion picture relief fund. The son says: "God will help her." Ob, Dear Dept.: At Celeste Holm's re-opening night (in "Oklahoma') the Theater guilders sent flowers to het dressing room, but forgot to order posies to send across the footlights. . . . Zacb Scott (whose Mrs. was the first stage manager of the troupe) ran up to the undressing room, snagged some o the posies (sent earlier), boxed them and handed them to an usher for delivery de-livery when Celeste took her curtain calls. . . . Everything went bonky-dooly-doo except that the usher forgot to take the flowers out of the box when he handed them over the "foots." Sallies in Our Alley: Look, Bub, don't make no crax when Cornel Wilde ankles by. He's only one oi the fenciest-fencers in the world thassall! . . . Things like this keep me up all night: In "Antony and Cleo-Pat-ra" Kath Cornell calls herself her-self Cleo-Pay-tra wnile leading man Godfrey Tearle calls her Cleo-Pah-trah. Ah, yah fahdah's muss-tahsh! . . . Monte Proser (of the Copa) has his name all over the town's musical musi-cal hit, "High Button Shoes," but not much of this new mint. He owns a measly 3 per cent! He had so little confidence m it he peddled "pieces" of it to anybody with dough the schmough. His next will be christened chris-tened "Manhattan Towers," with that thrilling album'd score. Sudden Thawt: There are more entries in the 1948 presidential presi-dential sweepstakes than get into the Kentucky derby which, however, is restricted to thoroughbreds. thor-oughbreds. Man About Town: After the British Brit-ish get through taxing Laurence Olivier's big weekly incomes he is left with only 250 bux, says a weeper. So wot? Tha.Vs 250 more than this col'm winds up with. . . . Howard Johnson is plagued with proposals after a magazine called him "single." "sin-gle." He's happily taken, girls. . . . The Standard Gas and Electric control con-trol fight will have more dirty linen aired than you've been trying to hide in your own column. . . . George Abbott has S40.0C0 of his own coin in his latest show, "Look. Ma. I'm Dancing!" |
