The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-18

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- Mrs. Roosevelt
around the city that distinguishes
Morris among taxi characters.
For posnick Is the most literary
OF hackmen and always keeps q
bag Of q hundred or more books
beside him In the drivers seat.
PIPES ARE HIS
SECOND LOVE
He reads them between fares
and he cannot resist @ chat with
passengers starting, you know,
I've Just been reading -" But
there's more. Morris Is q renown-
ed connoiseur Of pipes. He has
1852 Of them, ranging from q To-
cent corncob to a $40 meerschaum,
and they are stacked in racks
across the dashboard and doors.
He likes to survey his elegant
collection before shifting the
meter-fiag for fare and choose
the particular pipe which suits
his mood and also the distance Of
the call. II 1t is O long ride, Nor
ris selects a pipe with q capacious
bowl. II O short one, he will light
UP on O clay one. And what's
more, he Is q fastidious Judge Of
ale, but an indiscriminate fanatic
about the movies which he attends
In large volume on his day OF.
HELEN HAYES
BACK TO WORK
Helen Hayes, who deserved re-
Taxation, could not have had a too
quiet time In Europe. For she ar.
rived there Just before the caul-
dron dubbed over and she hur-
ried back to New York under q
wartime pail aboard the Cham
plain. The fighting already had
broken out. But she declined an
offer to extend her vacation over
here.
She assumed her triple duties at
once: as the star OF her hus-
bands - that Is, Charles Nc.
Arthur's--new play, Ladies and
Gentlemen; as o radio actress:
as mistress Of the Macarthur
home In suburban Nyack. And
those who know Helen Hayes,
capacity for work, diminutive and
fragile as she seems, know that
she Is likely to run three other
wives ragged.
From morning, when she full
fllls the maternal, matutinal rou-
tine with her two children, one
girl, one adopted boy, until late
In the night when she has re-
turned from the theater In New
York, she does not let up.
She actively runs the Nyack
household, holds her husbands
head figuratively while he suffers
literary pangs about the script,
comes 10 town for both radio
drama and rehearsals Of the plays,
and speeds back TO Nyack for more
domestic chores. In between-t times,
there are the usual, feminine stops
ct the beauty shops, the milliners
and eontour!ers.
HYsTERIA HELPS
FOOD FRIGHT
Thanks to the Little Flower, who
Is Mayor Laduardia, q panic over
O false sugar shortage was averted
here In early days OF the war.
As Il turned out, the sugar short.
age scare was entirely due TO the
hysteria OF O few women shoppers
who babbled rumors without
foundation.
This columns distaff side saw
this panic gather momentum at
first-hand. At the corner grocer's
O lady purchaser expressed her
astonishment that sugar was sell.
ing at the usual sum. But around
the corner, she exclaimed, O pound
Of sugar had skyrocketed 10 80
centsl The grocer phoned around
the corner. Not OF oil, his rival
reported, 90 cents was the price
Of FIVE pounds OF sugar, which Is
not alarmingly above the ordinary
rate. This turned out 10 DO so
upon personal investigation. But
Il 10 baseless and senseless rumors
like that which caused the food
fright In Manhattan.
WEATHERMAN ON
HOLLYWOOD PAYROLL?
Some OF us who are cynical OF
ell OF Hollywood's devious ways
are wondering II the Aim baliy-
hooers have not got together with
the weatherman on O couple OF
publicity stunts. For example,
when Lady OF the Tropics" which
brings Hedy LAMAR 10 the screen,
opened here, the day was sunny
and warm. Just what you would
expect In the tropical isles where
the plot has its locale.
Next day came Louis Brom.
fields The Rains Came" TO 0 local
screen. The heavens opened and
the rain poured down upon Man
haitian In the summers heaviest
torrents. Gould II DO that the bal.
lyhood men have made arrange.
ments with the weather forecas-