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> Keeping up-to-date, Pins and Needles, in its political skit, Four Little Angels of Peace, last week gave Angel Adolf Hitler some new lines: Now I've got the Sudeten There's no need for waitin', Ja wohl, all my plans are now surer.

It will be hotsy-totsy To make the world Nazi Under Adolf, the house-paintin' Fuehrer.

> When Hellzapoppin (TIME, Oct. 3) opened in Manhattan, all critics agreed that it split their eardrums, few admitted that it split their sides. One of the few was Critic Walter Winchell. Winchell razzed his fellow critics, claimed that seven out of eight had also "laughed & laughed & laughed" but were ashamed to admit it in print next day. In the uproar which followed, three-ring Critic George Jean Nathan (Esquire, Newsweek, Scribner's) backed up Winchell, called Hellzapoppin "funnier than the Pulitzer Prize"; Critic John Anderson (N. Y. Journal & American} refused to budge an inch; wisecrackers in general suggested that Winchell must have bought in on the show.

Meanwhile, Hellzapoppin was up to new tricks. It: 1) scheduled midnight performances; 2) offered cut-rate balcony seats; 3) provided free seats to those who could collar chickens and pigs it let loose in Times Square. Thanks to pigs and Winchell, Hellzapoppin turned into a hit.

> Victoria Regina, starring Helen Hayes, ran for 517 performances on Broadway in 1935-37, last season went on tour. Reopening last week in Manhattan for a limited run, it once more drew excited full-length reviews from the critics, who hailed it as "one of the classics of the American theatre," saluted Actress Hayes as "the queen of acting."

> Tremendous hit on Broadway last season was Paul Osborn's On Borrowed Time, now in its ninth and final month there.

Opening in London last week, On Borrowed Time was mercilessly damned. The London Times characterized it as "beyond the pale of criticism," the London News Chronicle as "trite, confused, unconvincing, callow, a barefaced, blue-eyed bore."

> In Manhattan last week Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt went to the theatre two nights in succession. Of Sing Out the News, Harold Rome's pro-Roosevelt revue, she remarked: "It is rather kind to certain prominent political figures." At Lightnin' Playgoer Roosevelt went behind the scenes, congratulated Fred Stone, who plays the leading role. Grinned Actor Stone: "Thank you, dear."

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