The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-11
Walter WiHAcIleII
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NEW YORK HEARTBEAT
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NEW YORK HEARTBEAT
 Faces About Town: Robert sher- wood, the playwright, whose nnus- tache has turned gray Patrice Runyon, Damon's darling, whose blonde dresses are brunette, almost :. Babe Ruth,s little girl, Julia, who has grown up and lovelier Ann Sheridan, on her first visit to The Big City, seeming just a little afraid of It All. A good actress, huh? i. Lord Beavenbrook, the London newspaper giant, who lis- tens a lot and reveals little John Gunther, the book writer, tell ing Quentin Reynolds and Sinclair Lewis (who also typewrite things, that after British planes had bombed German towns with pam- phlets, he asked the British Min istry of Information for the text of one of them "Soddy, so soddy,'' he was told, i've cawn't. It's a secret" J. After nine million of them were dropped on German ter ritoryl Merle Oberon ankling along The Stem, the most convinc- ing British propaganda in weeks :. A cop bowling out the towns for- mer No. 1 New Yorker for jay- walking on 9th Jimmy Walkerl
 Sallies in Our Alley: Jerry Wald, the Broadway Kid whose detractors predicted (seven years ago) that he'd be back in month, is back for a visit "Tell me something" a chum asked, you're success in Hollywood, why are so many other people complaining out there?" :. Mack Gordon, the 230-pounder, walked into Sardi's yesterday :. "Ah," quipped Wilkie Mahoney, they've found the Bremenl"
 Memos of Midnighter: When the British fleet is seen. in the Music Halls March of Time this week the applause is deafening. When the lone scene showing the Nazi flag is revealed = the hissing is louder The Hotel Woodward's s electric sign was naughty the other night. Most of the bulbs went out making it Hotel Woo ... A swank spot played to sixteen customers Friday night Market speculators dabbling in sugar took big bath
 Cleaned thoroughly >. La Dietrich makes her first public ap- pearance at The Night of Stars Benefit Nov. 18th at the Garden When the "Iroquois" captain got the message from our State Dept (that his boat might be sunk) they had to send it in International code because he wirelessed: T haven't any other code book with mel" And so everyone who was tuning in heard 1t Last week Walter OKeefe's announcer introduced Mary Martin as "the girl who made the song My Heart Belongs to Daddy famous!" .. We thought it was the other way around.
 New York Novelette,: She had been tramping from one casting agency to the next for months. It was always the same story-sorry leave your name and address, and ws1l let va know /. Finally. in desperation, she resolved that she w0uld fix the next producer who tasned her down-if 1t took the rest of her life She applied for a part with 20 other girls, a role which called for a girl, whose hold oil a man was unrelenting. who made his life hell day and night The producer glanced at her and said he was sorry, she wasn't the type So she left-and two weeks later managed to meet him at a party She worked all her wiles on him Che never recalled their first meeting) and in a few days he was sending her posies and gifts
 Now she is playing the part in real life she was denied in his play and it is paying oodles!
 Broadway Smalltalk: Jane Lee (Jane and Katherine Lee) and her