The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-26
Walter WiHlcIleIl On BrOddzeay
MEMOS OF A COLUMNISTs
 GTRK, FRIDAY
Mark ieestered, Copyright Day Mirror.

MEMOs OF A COLUMNIsTs
 GIRL FRIDAY
 Dear Mir. w.: The London Daily Mail called. Wanted Sunday nights editorial for reproduction. Several Canadian editors phoned, too ... Publisher "Cissy" Patterson (Wash- ington Herald) phoned. Was i'll, okay now. The matter you wrote about is jake, too \. Franchot Tone has been warned by docs that if he touches anything stronger than water for a year, he won't live two ~. I see where Time mag con- firms our Gen. Krivitsky-S Stateve- post expose Why do you Imagine the Satevepost eds keep denying it? Lots of changes again locally in the newspaper busi- ness Two p. m. gazettes af- fected ... Things were so quiet last night in some swank cafes you could hear the prices drop.
 It's all s'posed to be a beeg secret but the next Mrs. Johnny Weiss muller (Beryl Scott) is in town quietly. She may be found by re- porters in Jofnny's undressing room att he Aquacade If Frank Far ren, the reporter, wanted to do his country good turn, why doesn't he send Cong. Dies that bunch of ar ticles he couldn't get published? The one with all the socially registered names, who gave money to groups to have people harmed Jack Durant, who has. signed for Lew Browns "Yokel Boy" show, and his wife (Molly O'Day, former screen Star) expect another image in Aug ust Edith Puck is in town How come you didn't tell me about Sherman Billingsley losing his self control for the first time and boff- ing a guy in his Stork Club? And wasn't it Jimmy Ouditore, the one time crony of Jimmy Walker?
 What is all this talk about the Fair hurting Broadway shows? This is the seasonal slump, it happens every end of May! The shows that are closing. have had their runs. They'd close anyhow. The hits still finger, they always do! : The night clubs that offer bum food with their shows can DO longer fool the people three times. Twice, yes, but not three times Ever taste the wonderful food at the Versailles or Riviera? Aaaah!
 Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's pop miraculously recovered from what appeared to be a fatal illness and is back at his Lansford, Pa, home :. Ever hear Dorothy Rochelle on the NEG? Veddy nice . For tunes big special number due next month (at $2 the copy) has an estimate on the number of regular night club-goers. Fortune will say only about 10000 make it a habit Doesn't that sound aWfly loN to you? thought there were that number of night club column isto, alone! :. George Hale has done another masterful show for The Int'l Casino. The dress re- hearsals revealed an exciting finale, ard it's loveliest feature in Tahiti Prettiest girls and costumes in ages Charlene Tucker of the "line" there is home with 2nd degree burns from a scalding, poor thing.
 Dorothy Fields, the lady who wrote the words to all those fine songs in stars in Your Eyes" is Reno-bound right now Several of the hotels are dropping their bands for the summer The 47th Street detectives are still working on that chorus girl yarn. The photographer first suspected has been exonerated, I hear . !. When Helen Hayes, the star, recently addressed the Senate on the pro- posed bill to admit refugee chill dren to this country, one Senator Opposed to the bilD heckled the actress with: "Do you mean to say you'd adopt a child unseen? .. To which Helen promptly re- piled: T never saw my own child until 1t was delivered!"
 Last week you mentioned about Goldwyn's famous crack: Include me out!" being in the film, "Only Angels Have Wings" Include yourself outt" is also in the pie ture, Broadway Serenade" Y. The same scripters remembered another staley, to wit: Where will it get you-sin the end?" .. The Lawrence Dumonds hope their image will arrive by Christmas. Mrs. Dumond is the News Nancy Randolph, the ex-Florence Kill kenny The William Kochs of the Jamaica, Belmont and Santa Anita set showed the town to the Jerry Mayors of MGM all week. Nice people .. Jerry is vice-presi- dent of Metro {. Sir Wilmott Lewis, the London Times corre- spondent at Washington Ca popu- lar guy) and Connie Hull are expected to merge very soon :. :. We made a slight error in helping a girl get job. We said Hertha Thiele, actress, now working in a