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Show Lights of NewYork By L. L. STEVENSON Around About Manhattan: Francis Dee strolling through Central park and looking dee-lightful in her new spring finery. . . . Bespectacled Robert Rob-ert Walker in a walker-talker session ses-sion with Anita Ellis on Madison avenue. . . . Henry L. Petit, restaurant restau-rant manager of the Henry Hudson hotel, who has cheffed at many famous fa-mous gourmet havens here and abroad, standing before a Broadway window and watching a doughnut assembly as-sembly line in complete fascination. . . . Soulful-eyed Peter Lorre exploding explod-ing into a smile at Peter Donald's anecdoting at the Stork. . . . Alicia Markova, ballet dancer, tip-toeing across a puddle of water on Sixth avenue. . , . Victor 'Borge, the un-melancholy un-melancholy Dane, breathlessly racing rac-ing from the Roxy theater to the CBS studios for a guest shot and then to the Waldorf's Wedgwood Room where he's currently starring. . . . "Remember," he sighs, "when half a dozen taxis almost knocked you down to get a customer?" Cuff Notes: When Evelyn Knight opens her Loew's State engagement, she will try out a Portuguese ditty on the unsuspecting customers. The lovely Knight is boning up for her Rio de Janeiro engagement in May. . . .. Janet Waldo, one of ' Eddie Bracken's radio ingenues and Bing Crosby's protege, is being sought by the Shuberts for a new musical. . . . Nancy Walker's figure is now so trim they've padded her costumes to give that robust look her comedy characterization char-acterization in "On the Town" requires. re-quires. . . . Phil Baker has commissioned com-missioned Ken Roberts, announcer-emcee, announcer-emcee, to paint Mrs. Baker's portrait. por-trait. . . . Burl Ives has been asked to guest lecture on American folk ballads at Yale. ... A publishing house wants to buy the title to the forum program, "Let's Face the Issue," Is-sue," for a postwar political magazine. maga-zine. This & That: Joan Edwards' pet ambition, to have a biography written writ-ten of her famous uncle, will be realized real-ized this summer. The story of the life of Gus Edwards is being whipped into shape in Hollywood with various vari-ous members of the family writing parts of the book. ... On the menu in Ruby Foo's Den is this piece of a sagacity written by Yuan Mei, Chinese Chi-nese philosopher, in 1739: "There is a difference between dining and eating. When you eat to get the most out of vour meal, to olease the palate as well as to satiate the appe- ' tie, that my friend, is dining." Addenda: If the New York Society Soci-ety 'of Models has its way, a bunch of gorgeous gals will be coming over your postwar television set. The society's so-ciety's placement bureau has just added a television department. . . . Eight months ago when he was on the road. Woody Herman lost one of his trunks. The express company recently located it and sent it to him. When he opened the trunk, he found a dozen cartons of cigarettes he had forgotten all about. . . . Ken Murray says the only difference between be-tween death and taxation is that. death doesn't get worse every time congress convenes, a |