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Show 1 fIa'S:Z L . ' . ', 1 New York-Hollywood Ticker: Broadway Small Talk: Theatrical unemployment hits its new high for the late fall. ... So y'wanna be a B'way producer? Out of 5,847 plays (registered last year) less than 75 opened in New York. . . . Billy's, the ancient gas-lit saloon, finally went modern and bought itself a cash register after 70 years. . . . Most hot doggeries have hiked the fee on franx to 15 cents. . . . Warning to druggists, medicos, et al. : All sleeping sleep-ing pills now are listed as deope along with morphine, et cetera. Be careful about peddling without prescriptions. pre-scriptions. Jails can be oof'ly chilly even in the summer. . . . Many models and actresses (in midtown) live on a "BB" diet (benzedrine and pheno-barbital). They say there are more than 125,000 scientists (in 18 countries) coun-tries) busy on atomic energy research. re-search. How can you keep such a secret with that many? The First Nights: The intermission intermis-sion offers a good opportunity to take inventory of the new season. . . . The hottest ticket among newcomers new-comers is "Command Decision." Other gushers are "Allegro," "High Button Shoes," "Medea," "Man and Superman" and "The Winslow Boy." . . . Most notable personal triumphs among established stars: Judith Anderson and Maurice Evans . . . The semester's brightest new sparkler is June Lockhart who blazed the Stardust trail via "For Love or Money." ... Of course, il hasn't been a turkeyless season. But when the Main Stem sprouts a half dozen solid clicks at this time of year, it indicates the thittir still has plenty of vitamins. . . . All in all, it looks like one of Broadway's more rousing seasons, although there are still some pessimistic producers weeping into their champagne. Lucille Bremer (whose alma mater is the Copacabana chorus) cho-rus) won swift success in MGM movietown. Stardom, jools and wealth. Then she finally got a phone. The Airistocrats: The latest soap opera is tagged "Nora Drake." The title is new, but it whips up the same old weepy lather. . . . The emcee on the "Strike It Rich" quiz should put a leash on his runaway ebullience. His synthetic enthusiasm would make a headwaiter envious. . . "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (a dramatization of Biblical tales) is done with such excellent taste it comes across with all the tender glow of altar candles. . . . Henry Morgan (dropped by his sponsor) memos: "My sponsor and I have come to a complete agreement that I don't like him and he doesn't care." Novelette: She was a faithful employee em-ployee in a household for many years. . . . They never missed a thing from their fool boxes or apparel closets. . . . A good woman who had no vices whatever. what-ever. . . . When the master of the house bad card games real money was used. . . . The other week-end (for the first time) they were playing with chips when dinner was announced. . . . They left their reds, blues and whites on the card table. . . . When they returned an hour later every chip was gone and so was the maid. . . . They haven't had a trace of her since. The Stage Door: Fame is like this and the second item: Frank Sinatra's Sinat-ra's name on the Capitol theater is printed in type two and three-quarters by one and a half inches. The names of stars of the accompanying film (Lucille Ball and Franchot Tone) appear in print one-half by three-quarter inches. . . . Met star Martha Lipton's press agent planted a piece about opera thrushes' quirks and signatured by her in Park East, a publication for the lifted pinky set in swank midtown New York. Miss Lipton's name came out Martha Tilton. The latter is merely a big click among the peasants who listen to radio shows. . . . The Howard Cullmans (who need money like you need a hole in the head) are backing a dozen Broadway shows. Most are hits. Bigtown Vignette: The Communist Com-munist newspaper (in N. Y. C.) assigned an office boy to become be-come a handicapper when the editors tried to jazz np the rag a few weeks ago. . . . The kid (who never witnessed a horse race in his young life) picked 16 flags on the nose. . . . Then got nimsclf a job with a racing paper. Sallies In Our Alley: Charles Irwin (one of vaudeville's best bequests to Movieburg) relays this one by comic Harry Gordon of Scotland. . . . Gordon, Gor-don, discussing the big difference between entertainers in the U. S. and Great Britain, said: "Over here you have Benny, Allen and Hope. Over there we have Attlee, Bevins and no hope!" RKO Producer Don Ilartman pointing out that if kidding government gov-ernment oflicials is subversive (as that house group appears to think), then what about Gilbert Gil-bert and Sullivan, who did it decades ago? (And they were knighted by the king!) |
