The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-15
Walter Willclleu Or BrOldzgny
GTraAs Mark ksgisereal Copyright Iaa Daily Mror Ina

NOTES OF A NEW YORKER
 The Billy Rose "Acquacade' showgirls, swimmers. chorines, etc. may feel victorious at last The Mighty Midget yesterday agreed to pay them all the rehearsal money now-instead of at the end of the season Rose told Union agents I'm willing to pay the money now If I am guaranteed nobody will quit as soon as I pay 1t" l. . Fair enough We were listening to one of the "Aquacade" boys pop off about the situation He thought Rose was being unfair that the kids should get that money right away ebcause they needed it. DO you realize" he said "that those kids are broke? Why know one chorus girl who actually had to hook her sables"
 It concerns the strike going on at some small 42nd Street movie and one of the pickets assigned to bother the management disap- peared "Where's the other 2icket?" asked a delegate He's over in front of the Paramount was the reply, tits cooler therel" :. One of the reporters assigned to cover the stagehands-actors' fracas in Atlantic City last week, was told to canvas a few players in George Whites "Scandals" there To ask how they felt about submitting to the jurisdiction of the stage hands union One chorus girl said it didn't matter to her where the hell the jurisdiction went. You see," she added, my mother always calls for me-"
 The Hays Office (the movie spoil ers) has mixed yarn that "libels newspapermen" as drunks and moochers Any film writer who uses that reporter stencil should never call anybody moocher
 A Chicago woman, according to the AP, in demanding the return of her keepsakes from her estranged mate, included among them some cart ridges for her pistol A woman cherishes her bullets-doux Pun my soul l. A much married lady novelist, who always makes her husbands and beaux the heroes of her sticky romances, recently picked out 8 new Tarzan . But after a few dates, he stopped the dice, explaining: "She doesn't need a new man; she needs a new plot!'
 The White House is said to have received a confidential memo from Army and Navy officials favoring the settlement of European refugees in Alaska The Army and Navy both said: "There cannot be any question as to their loyalty to America in case we ever have to de- fend Alaska" Marion Harris, the former headliner, now be- lieved married and dwelling in Eng lsnd-should get in touch with her attorney in Chicago Some legal matter has just come into fruition and he cannot find her Joe E. Lewis, the comic, was honored with party Cat the RivieraJ on his 18th Amy the other night |. I've really been in show business tventy-seven years," he confessed, "lmt tonight I am only celebrating the fifteen years I've been work ing!" Hedy LeMarr has thefted more of Garbo's thunder. She has an 8s hoof!
 The Dies Committee, they say, has discovered what the letters "A. "" mean on local storm trooper flags and other Bund insignia The two letters are spoken each time Ratzis greet each other, also. . In a letter intercepted by the auth critics 1t is explained that A. V. stands for America Verreck"-freely translated: ITO hell with America.
 Years ago a MT. H. w. St. John of Greenville, s. O., invented a golf gadget called "Grabbit," which was to be used for retrieving golf balls from water hazards !, He look 1t to a large sporting goods manu- facturer who accepted 1t, and he was paid a handsome sum for the manufacturing rights for ten years When do you intend to start making them?" asked the inventor "Never," was the reply, i've make our money through lost golf balls-not in finding them" . The firms rights ran out last year and the inventor began making them. They are going like periscopes at . coronation.
 Stored away in the chancellories of Germany and Italy are complete stocks of newsreel clips of F. D. R., Chamberlain, Daladier and others who figure to be on the op- posing side in event of war The Dictators have learned the Yankees stunt of clubbing in new wordage to fit the lip movements and facial expressions of Roosevelt, ct al '. In this way they can put any state- rnent into the mouth of the person on the screen The technique was first used in "Hellzapoppin'."
 We know it's been explained be-