The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-04
NEM YoRK HEARTBEAT

Faces About Town: Eleanor Powell. her silken-clad garns en- cased in patent leather hoofing pumps, rhythmically clicking across the Astor lobby trailed by the orbs of gaping gobs ... Marshall Field, Chicago's merchant prince, inspect ing the Broadway lights from the corner of 45th Street .. Helen Claire, the Sut'then gal, in K. T. B. Goodbye" even writes with a you-all accent She autographed Shirt-fronts this way: Good luck, suh" Barbara Hutton perched on a stool at Hicks emporium on Fifth Avenue-sipping a two-bit strawberry soda through a straw. =. Jimmy Savo looking as meek as Milquetoast when 8 bus driver Oorry No. 247) gave him a sassy look because his segar was still on fire Beatrice Lille, the darl- ing of the press section in The Stork Club, wearing out the car pet tl1ere-but you must ask her to explain it 5. <. In the Cotton Club, Doris Duke, the richest girl in the world Gas the saying goes), featur- ing a new hat with gold discs. Are those gold pieces?" one of us asked her Indeed not" she re- piled with laugh, T never had a gold piece in my ife!"
 Sallies in Our Alley: Blue Barron, the maestro, and some dramatic critics were gabbing about the Con- scription Law in Great Britain what" inquired Blue, "do you think will happen to Noel Coward now that there's a drahft?" |. "He will probably catch cold" was the snapper John Emery, the male lead in new flop, sent a pal out at 4 a. m. to get the pa pers containing the critics apprais- als The pal returned reading one of them "What kind of notices are we getting?" impateintly asked Emery, good actor Mixed notices" was the reply, "di- vided opinions-bad and louSy!"
 Memos of Midnighter: Jack Os- terman may try it again with Betty Weaver Barbara Evans, one of the nicer guys, now prefers a weekly editor Fred Wildman, of Bellows 6 Co.,, had no brawl at Bleeck's, he swears, over any match game, merely the usual beefing. The Players Club rumor (of a gum is silly, too. No gun-a cap pistol! Dan Healy and Helen Kane are something new with an old idea The hotels which put out regular-paying guests to make room for the rush of Worlds Fair visi- tors Cat higher rates) spent all Monday waiting. The only foot steps heard were those of mailmen Glenn Miller's band starts at Glen Island Casino on the 17th Girl friends say Dorothy La morr talks in her sleep |. An army of snowfolks will miss Mack Apple ton, now free-lancing-after 25 years in the actor-sector The N. Y. Times refuses to permit Tn formation Please" to broadcast that Jack Kieran is on their sports staff Ernest Heminway's new book on Spain will take five years to complete. No novel .. Description of celery tonic: Jewish champagne.
 Midtown Melodrama: The papers said she was on her honeymoon at the hotel in 47th Street, and that nobody could learn why she jumped or fell to her death while her husband slept :. Only married three days, too . Hotel attaches clear up the mystery" The lovely brides groom, it appears, found letter to her by which he learned she had touch of tuber- culosis Fearing her deception might cause him to leave her, she stepped out the window And the bitter irony! The autopsy convinced medicos that her case was mild and could have been arrested in no time.