The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-03
PORTRAIT OF A MAN TALKING
 TO HIMSELF

TO HIMSELF
 It must be a little painful fo1
 the Virginia Military Institue, which certainly has other claims of pres
 tige, to find The New York Times
 identifying 1t as the school that
 Brother Rat was written about
 That "One for the Money" re- vue has more class and entertain ment in it than a dozen of its adroit competitors .. Paul Douglas title for Hitler's book: T, the People Wonder if Joan Bennett ap- preciated it or not-the way people didn't bother her or recognize her in The Stork the other night? :. Most of the celebs I know resent not being recognized U. That's too bad <. That true story about L. B. Mayors office in his M-G-M studios is really sad, at that How he recently had his sumptuous office redecorated all in white white walls, white chairs, white car- pets, white phones, white tables, etc.
 :. And now he has to wear dark glasses because of the glare!
 That feud between Alex Woollcott and his ex-managing editor, Harold Ross of The New Yorker, is get ting serious, by golly .. It started when Ross ordered profile pieces on Alex recently 5. So what hap pened! So Woollcott quietly ped dled his stock in the mag last Friday ... He won the stock years ago from Ross in poker contest =. I got a litter out of that de- scription of Bernie and Nanny Pra- ger, his singer, the other broadcast: "That Gruesome Twosome" Heheheh Wonder how much longer a guy can stay up 35 hours without sleeping and do two broad- casts, too, plus 8 column-and en- joy sitting with cronies after shave "brings him to-? Shucks, it used to be nothing at all to stay up "A to 28 hours in the Texas Guinan days with Hellinger and "Texas" and never feel itl So that's what hey mean when they say "his legs are going" ... I mean about fighters, etc.
 If anybody asked me, I'd say it's a refreshing pleasure to have the visitors to the Fair with us these nights ;. Some of the uppity night club owners are worried a little that the provincials will "spoil the looks of their clientele" Well, isn't that a shame, humphf! |. Say, that's interesting: About Sonny J. Fitzsimmons saddling the last four Wood Memorial winners, in- cluding "Johnstown," the Derby fave But none of these four winners of the Wood ever won a Derby, they say 'Magine that Winston Churchill's speech an- swering Adolf was so interesting .. |. Specially that part where he turned 8 neat phrase: There can be no peace in Germany until the leaders change their tactics or the peo- pie change their leaders," A punch-line writer, eh? They say the day isn't far distant when Hitler will have to eat his words. 0ermanys aren't eating much else.
 Hope the reviving of this formula which I haven't done in so long, doesn't irk the number of theme swipers, who have sunk it up in the meantime The drollest re- suit of the Hitler pop-off to F.. D. R.. was that only one nation was scared of its consequences-Italy, his boy-friend! :. :. Just now the N. Y. Critics Circle is being razzed for failing to pick the years best drama 1 But they needn't fret. In a few hours the Pulitzer jury will be get ting hell because it did! Sena- tor Wagner, who is sponsoring that pill to admit refugee children oughta look up the number of Declaration of Independence signers-who were refugees! At least eight John B. Opdycke in his book, Don't Say It." rules that it's bad gram mar to say, we are going to Febru- ary in the South" Bad gram mar, maybe, but @ very nice Winter Very funny to me The way so many blokes say: "This is all pretty new with you, isn't it? This hurray for America stuff" | New to them, perhaps, not new to me :. In 1881, three times every week for a year on The Lucky Strike HOlIr theS I00a1 was. "Okavi