The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-23

NEW 4VNA mEAHIBEAT
Faces About Town: Mr.. and Mrs.
Hugh Herbert chaperoning Jane
Bryan and her mater at The StorK
club. Mons first visit to the Big
City Gail Patrick, Kay Kyser,
"Ginny" Sims, Ben Bernie, D. But
Ter, the director, Virginia Jine, G.
JeSSel and other showfolks making
the same spot look like Brown
Derby rendezvous Airline Judge
and Q rnonocle juggler ringsiding at
La Martinique, which is enticing the
second biggest night club atten.
dances Helen Hayes at the
Modern Art theater studying the
early flickers OF Bernhard and
Duse La Hayes being one OF
those actresses who is willing to
learn and improve herself Fran
chot Tone, thicker In the face and
hips, and baked by the sun, look
ing healthful for the first time in
year and a half Otto Pre-
minger, the German Consul In
Margin for Error" (the best be-
hitler Of the Nazis yeti, being
adored wherever he goes after mid
night Joan Blondell and her
sister Gloria shivering at Goth and
Park from the cold, and the sight OF
the dead and injured in a car crash
Barbara Stanwyck and Bob
Taylor-Mr. and Mrs. Beautiful.
Sallies In Our Alley: st. Clair Nc
Keslway Of the New Yorker mag
is readying profile on Clifton
Fadiman, to book critic for the
same weekly i. "You imean," ex-
claimed Reporter Ira Wolfert att he
Kuhn trial, "that the New Workers
are writing about themselves? Why,
that's nicestl" At La Cava
last night well known gal (well-
known for being a stew asked the
owner II her brother could come in
X wanted to ask you first"
she exclaimed, my brothers in an
old suit" what the he'll Is he"
exploded the host, "a moth?"
Memos Of Midnighter: The Shu-
berts are casting their biggest show,
"Cyfano de Bergerac," with music
by the late Sam Pokrass, who watt
ed ten years to see his masterpiece
and put four years work into 1t. He
died four months ago Barbara
O'Neil winged from H'wood To Philly
to spend Thanksgiving with Josh
Logan, director Of the new play,
Mornings at Z" Ramon and
Renita start tonight at La Mar
tinque The ad on Page 8 Of
the New Yorker is plenty Minsky
Bert Wheeler will start at Art
Childer's Royal Palm, Miami, Jan.
10th All the bellhops will honor
Bill Green, vet hop of the Hotel
Taft, Dec. 8th-at the Savoy ball
room, Harlem Politicos think
Arthur j. w. Hilly will be the next
Tammany leader. He was Jimmy
Walkers corporation counsel
Quentin Reynolds and Louis Sobol
are parenting "The Life of Floyd
Gibbons" q natural.
Midtown Vignette: Brenda Frazier
cvened things with woman seated
two tables away at a Cuban joint
the other night The stranger
uechIeu tlat potnerlng BRENDA WollJ
he lots more entertainment than
the floor show, and so she aped
everything the No. Glamour Girl
old II Brenda applied rouge
to the lips--so would the cut-up
two tables away When Brenda
looked In her hand mirror, the
funny lady would look into hers
When Brenda patted her hair, the
stranger dittod It was appar-
ent she did II to be annoying :.
Finally, Brenda's cruel streak as
serted itself She put her in
dex fingers TO her cheeks and made
believe she was squeezing blemishes
The other gal didn't ape that
She was thoroughly crushed
Because Brenda's complexion
Is clear, and the heckler's kisser was