The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-16
Walter WiIacIleu
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 Miriam Verne, the Pittsburgh girl, whose hoofing has Hitler in dither, owes her first break to Lew Brown, the producer and songwriter of hits It happened this way Mitzi Mayfair had quit one of Browns revues after a tiff with him :. When Brown encountered La Verne Iwho resembles Mitzi good deaD he decided to "even things" by mak- ing Verne another Mitzi" Now let him go on with the sad story: 50 I sent her to one of the best dance teachers and instructed that she be taught Mitzi's routines, and, by golly, in no time she was knock ing lem dead-and look what's hap pened. With my money she be- came another dancing star, goes to Europe where she's running around with Hitler who wants to kill mel"
 Over at Billy Roses "Aquacade" where 200 of the cast were rehears- ing in the huge pool, Rube Bern stein, an executive for Rose, groaned Look at all those actors dirty ing up that pretty water!"
 Max Baer used the sports columns of a local gazette to answer an at tack on him by Gene Tunney, who pulled & refined Galento by calling Baer "bum" in fancy four-syllable words Replied Baer: T won- der if the estimable MT. Tunney has ever heard the gag about folks living in glass houses not taking baths in the daytime" .. Speaking of glass house dwellers, here's a description of one of them: Little Sore Echo'.
 Just before the Preakness. trainer Fitzsimmons took jockeys Stout and Donoso into the Jockey Club and asked them if they wanted to split their 10 per cent of the winning jockeys purses Stout said no because he was up on JohnStown. The race went off and Donoso finished second with Gilded Knight and got 10 per cent of $10,000 |. Stout finished next to last on Johnstown, and got his kisser full of mud.
 The general public never suspect ed recently how very close to war we were with Japan It was the personal diplomacy of President Roosevelt which kept the Japanese from echoing the war threats of the Rome-Berlin axis Japan, you will recall, was conspicuously silent about going to war against the de- mocracies-after Il Duce announced that Italy would fight with Ger many The brilliant diplomacy which touched the heart of every Japanese was the sending of Ex- Ambassador Saito's ashes home to Japan on an American battleship The Japanese-from the mightiest to the most humble-con- sidered that gesture very fine one That idea was the Presidents He and Saito were not merely representative of two great nations Roosevelt and Saito were two great friends This is the sec ord time that F. D. R.-in crisis kept us out of war-by appealing directly to the people.
 The approaching visit of the King and Queen of England has got Washington in an etiquette panic. The politicians, it seems, have been so busy using the knife they've neglected to study up on the right fork Adolf's growing power over Il Duce allows the Nation to coin a top nifty of the semester. Tn Italy.' reports the weekly, "peo- pie are beginning to grumble that things were better under Mussolini." An official of the Nazi State is forbidden to accept a cup of cof- fee from a friend-that being "a bribe" It was only a matter of time before the Reich got around to making Kindness-criminal.
 Taliulah Bankhead, Betty Law ford and other Stork Clubeauties have new pastime-calling the last serial number on dollar bills odd or even .. But this is to warn them against sharpers and others who have been around longer than they have The next time they lose steadily it is a pretty sure thing that they are playing against wiseys who make a living at the racket to wit: A little under where "The United States of America" begins there is always a tiny letter of the alphabet That tiny letter tips off the cheater whether the end serial number is odd or even . .. "A" is odd B" is even Prob ably applies to 5s, los, POS, etc .. Sorry to have ruined the racket of certain people, but we always did wonder how they made a living.
 At dinner party in Washington, Att'y-GenI Murphy was challenged by an acidulous dowager Come, now, MT. Attorney General, do you think your Michigan crusade really Tono1 MI o, Eo