The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-08
In-
Mezg York.
BY PAUL HARRISON

By PAUL HAHblSON
New Notwithstanding Peggy
Hopkins Joyce is just a novice ma
trimonialist, after all. Lieut. VIII
liam T. Comerford, naval reserve
officer and one-time appointee to
the u. s. Shipping board Is hunt
ing a publisher for his book called
my First Fourteen Wives" He
has had that many too Inc
June wedding news includes mo-
tees of some Communist nuptials
in the Bronx charging. 1S cents
public admission and plans for
Highland, N. Y, nudist camp mar
riage ceremony as soon as nu-
dist pastor can be- found. Meari-
while q Coney Island resort is seek,
ing q couple to wed in a. roller
coaster. Rice is already sprouting
in the Jersey meadows from the
grains dropped there by celebrarts
of aerial weddings. And it's. even
rumored that one old-fashtoned
pair plans to get married in
church
Coward Packs EN- In
Card from Sophie Tucker, night
clubbing on Chicago Gold Coast,
says big doing here. Better come
on OUT i. And most of Broad
way seems to be planning to 60.
The farewell party for Noel
Coward brought out Dorothy Par
ker, Edna Ferber, TaIulah Bank
head, Clifton Webb, Fred Astaire,
Adolphe Menjou Conway Tearle,
Peggy Wood, Richard Barthelmess,
Gloria Swanson, Hope Williams,
| Lee Tracy, Doug Fairbanks, Jr, and
| Just about everybody who's any,
BODY Frederick Hollander,
the composer just arrived from
Germany, received newspapermen
at his hotel suite and asked them
| to join him in smack of cognac.
They assented readily enough. were
| amazed to hear him call room SER
vice and calmly order two bottles
lof brandy. Hollander hung up the
phone after a minute of argument
| turned, crestfallen, to his guests.
$50 sorry" he said. II thought
you people had repealed your pro-
hibition last April. Now l am told
it was beer emily.
That Guy Dempsey
Nocturnal notes: Roller skating
at the Village Nut club Col
ored gal boxers at the Mayfair
Logo tops at the Village Barn :.
| Frank and Milt Britton smashing
violins Indy Hop contests
here and there Jimmy Dur
ante smashing pianos everywhere
he goes All of which make
for strenuous evenings The
towns talking about Mickey AL
| pert's singing at the new Vanity
Fair And so help us. there's
now a Mickey Mouse club. with
floor show led by Thelma White
and an orchestra of Mickey Mouse
Trappers, and dance floor built
like a huge mouse trap. The
world isn't exactly beating a path
to the door.
| In spite of the press of his pro-
motional duties, and sometimes in
| connection with them, Jack Demp-
sey's finding time to get around 20
the supper clubs regularly. AL
ways gets a spotlight and hand.
always acknowledges them with
that half-shy little gesture so ia
miliar to fight fans for years.
When the Manassas Maestro dances
he leads with his left (fooO fight
/ er-fashion {. Also, relic of his
training days, he still loves practi-
cal jokes. other night he sham-
pooed the pate of his doing pub
licity man, Sam Taub, with per-
oxide, and was gratified to see
Taub's hair turn straw-colored -.
Leaving an umbrella in his Broad
way office, Jack put a tag on 1t
reading: Hands off. Property Z
an ex-champion heavyweight box
err" Next day 1t was gone. with a
sassy note in its place: Umbrella
borrowed by an cx-champion long
| distance runner"