The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-10

NOTES OF A NEW YORKER
 ysnc COwI turned down La Bank heads role in ''The Little Foxes"- because she didn't want to essay the role of a mama Johnny Weiss muller gets no wages from 'The Aquacade". MGM collects 1t and saves it for him, letting him have only ciggie and water-wing coin. Nicky Arnstein (unlike Fanny Brice) hasn't tried to collect penny on Za1uck's flicker, Rose of Wash ington Sqaure." He has enough money and wants to forget the past. The author of that article in New Masses on the World Telly is not a former reporter there. He once worked for Judge mag :. Leon and Eddie's has been doing 8 terrific worlds Fair" trade For years they've been mailing the hinterlanders their clever circulars and now they are bearing fruit |. |. Leon Casoux, the Duke of Windsor's chef (who came here before the Bedaux rumpus) was practically stranded Until, that is, he got a job at Rents tiny rendezvous on Broadway in the 50s-where he is marking time until the Duke arr rives.
 Page 114 of the May issue of American mag offers a cartoon showing seal and bathing beauty with 8 lad saying: Boy, if he only had your looks or you had his
 talent!" .. George Bernard Shaw,s famous gag! t. Said it to an actress decades ago Best comic around in weeks is the gal in the green trunks tnot much else) in the Amazon boob trap at the Fair Sheeza sorta unconscious Fanny Brice The Sam H. Har- ris office rebuttals Mondays item about La Lillie It was written that she had offered to sacrifice her $2,500 weekly wage if the theater would cut, too .. MT. Harris of fered the theater to producer Wilson gratis" is the reply, but it was spurned!"
 N. T. c. brought six of his Holly wood girls (for his Worlds Fair troupe) to corroborate his argument that he paid them rehearsal wages, plusl It was said that he did not In checking with the American Federation of Actors, union officials declared: We have complaints from fourteen other girls in the show who allege they didn't receive rehearsal money" The matter, we learn, will be argued be- tween the union and N. T. G., today.
 The new Paradise revue "Venus in Paradise" is one of its best Richard Himber's crew is another high spot, after the girls, we mean The best route to the Fair is the Long Islands ten-minute trip (raght to the grounds) for a dime The current Ken has a Oliver expose on Kuhn that prob ably will finish him here after Adolf sees it A motor magnate has ordered his American troops home from the firms forts abroad Nice Gesture Dept: Bill Robinson is guosting ten men nightly at the Cot ton Club from the 27 ships of the fleet docked here. The commanders pick the ten sailors Ad refresh- ing moments: At the Aquacade, when Eleanor Holm and Johnny Weissmuller do their graceful rou- tines Took our breath away, and not because we can't swim or waltz =. And when all those c..orines do their drills in the wa ter-you think of the West Point CTS parading in the newsreels.
 The H'wood Reporter quotes Ken Murray as saying: f'Hollywood is place where you spend more than you make on things you don't need to impress people you don't like" Hey, Berle! Move over Delightful songs: Little Genius" Ca grand lyric, tool and Asleep or Awake" by Jack Lawrence and Os- car Levant-a lovely lit Nell son Eddy, according to Montreal talk, is due at Montreal Institute of Neurology for an optic nerve operation by Dr. Wilder Penfield. Montreal gazettes deny the rumor, but medical students there hear it is true Broadway hears that Rose Perfect, the prima donna, was the secret bride of Sir Harry M. Fields in London two weeks before he was killed in a crash Add new libels: Bernie's crack on the air that this columnist was chucked out If Kindergarten because The wouldn't shave!"
 Add hilarious dance routines: The asaka