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Show WALTER WINCHELL Soft-Shoeinq to Press The rousing click of Mike Todd's production, "As the Girls Go," sprouts a type of musical orchid in the Winter Garden that Ziegfeld once planted in the Broadway jungles. Bobby Clark's rampaging in the hit proves again he is not merely a star but a comet. . . . Mike's sensayuma is like this: The showman made and dropped a fortune for-tune justlikethat. The other day he informed an interviewer: " I have been recuperating from prosperity!" You can't win: Hollywood has always al-ways been paddled tor ignoring real' ity. Now some movie reviewers quibble quib-ble that "The Snake Pit" is too realistic! realis-tic! . . . Oddest initial monicker belongs be-longs to an actress in "Edward, My Son." Leueen Macgrath. . . . No wonder won-der usherettes in legit show places are so purty. Most of 'em are stage struck and use their salaries to pay for drama lessons. . . '. Don't believe those fables about Hollywood producers being be-ing nincompoops. Most are hep gents and one producer is a 'Phi Beta Kappa man. . . . Union Sq. soapboxers have a new target: Pollsters. Tweaking Hollywood's nose isn't the playful sport it used to be when you witness fine cinemas like "Joan of Arc," "Johnny Belinda" or "The Snake Pit." . . . Malcolm Johnson's NY Sun series about waterfront mobsters is Pulitzer-bait. . . . Inside darkest Manhattan: Ladeez of the evening steer clear of six-footers fear they might be slooths. . . . The upper right-hand corner of Look's page 31 has a photo of modoll Wendy Burden that is bound to make male blood pressure zoom. Wish some joynt ham-cees would learn the difference between sass and smut. . . . Time Mag's crirlfj reviews two radio-telesee Election Night programs that were broadcast at the same time. Apparently, he has four eyes, six ears and no brain. . . . Celluloidia's gold mines are becoming salt mines. During the past fortnight Warners' have dropped 1,000 employes from the payroll. Talk about the wonders of glamour to those jobless people and you'll be shoved off the nearest building. Bob Hope's recording of "Buttons "But-tons and Bows" is one of the most ear-beguiling versions of that listenable lilt. . . . The revival re-vival of "The Roosevelt Story" at the Republic Thittir on B'way gives you another opportunity to enjoy it. Nothing is more - dramatic than seeing FDP and listening to his memorable voice. . . . Boos are deafening when Cong. Thomas appears in newsreels. He certainly rates being number one in the Hiss Parade. Whoever dreamed up those anti-VD anti-VD subway placards merits a bravo. Publicity at its most potent. . . . Mag scrivener Fred Allhoft once offered the best description offj Tallulah: "Trying to put Miss Bank- head on paper is like trying to stuff a tornado into a bottle." . . . Most arresting feature on telesee is interviews in-terviews with children. Topflight human interest. |