The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-28


 hound and is trying to bait them Into milking Geneva" front-page stuff.
 Add picturesque reportage, Jimmy Lowell, reviewing Bette Davis as EllS- abeth in The Dallas Herald: Tt is relatively easy for one Elizabeth to play another when each is Q Queen"
 This shows what happens some- times when a guy tries to do some- body Q favor It hefell one of the more famous movie comedians, more recently on the stage, whose luck hasn't been sugary x, He thought 1t had turned when he got an offer a few weeks ago to star at a swank Florida place While the negotiations were still going on, one of the Broadway points per- suAded him to be Q guest star--for nothing, of course Being Q regular fellow, he agreed {. It was only for one performance, so wot- thehell?
 He went on unprepared, no mu- sic with him or funny clothes-and his act just wasn't appreciated by the audience =. Sitting ont front was the gent from the Florida place The comedian doesn't know 1t until he sees 1t here-but that's the reason the Florida deal fell through.
 The life of the late Sam Pokrass, @ great composer, contained many ironies, not the least of which is the one that is occurring posthumously. The dream of his life-a Broadway production for his oper- etta, white Plume" (based on "Cyrano de Bergerac')-is finally coming true-six months after his death; More poignant, per- haps, was the time the operetta was being successfully presented at the outdoor auditorium in St, Louis sev- eral years ago While his name and work were being acclaimed by music lovers in that stadium, Pok- rass, impoverished, was working in Jack Peppers vaudeville act in Q theater across the street--as ail un- billed stoogel
 "Chioago, WinchelI, Mirror, New York: Dear Walter. Molehills are building mountains. We are not casting Coast company in East but a few actors just came to us ond said they were willing to take themselves to the Coast and we carelesslv agreed stop we really did not seek them out they came to us stop as a result we arc being accused of every thing from Fascism to smallpox, In conclusion no actor will be permit ted to pay fare to the Coast the world is safe again. Moss Hart and c. s, Kaufman"
 The frlgid wind sandpapered the exposed parts of the body |. |, Silence flooded the 1 Q. m. streets that make up Sixth avenue .., A few shivering people could be seen scurrylnR to warm places At b0th street a human lead quarter, whose face was serlbbeld with wrinkles of a bad life, stopped passerby and sang the theme song of tlle down. and-out; "dot 0 iickel9" The fellow handed him c coin and then asked him why he didn't go down to the Municipal Lodging House where he would bo fed and shell tered, instead of freezing in the streets The panhandler was bitter T don't go because of what they do to you down therel' "What do they do to your" he was asked With his face In pain he said: "They make you take . bath"
 The newest of tho anti-New Deal anecdotes is Arthur Weil's-Nbou' the congressman who has fought Roosevelt right along and was rec grotting the restrictions imposed on the wPA since when are you in favor of tho wPAp" queried an astonished friend, T never thought that would happenl" "Lissen," replied tho Congressman "all really want is just one more WPA project-to widen the Atlan- tel"
 Sidney skolsky, the hypochon- driac eolumnist, went to see one Of the best medicos on the Movie Coast Sidney complained that he must have kidney trouble .. "The peculiar thing about kidney dis- case" said tho doc, Ifs that the victim doesn't feel any pain or dis- comfort"
 "Yeh, yeh," skolsky shouted "those are my symptoms exaetlyW
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