The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-08
MAN ABOUT TOWN

MAN ABOUT TOWN
 The Franklin Delano. Roosevelt, Jrs, are. irnaging again!. Isn't Jessica Pepper, of the Broadway lahdeedahs, secretly sealed to A. Arthur, the ex-columnist and now a 2Oth Century Fox? X. The Luther Adlers Sylvia Sidney nave shelved the stage for year. Blessed-ever- tuallying :. They say there's no inside" on Litvinoff's quitting the Soviet High Command. Doctors or- ders because his ticker trouble would end him in a year, etc. ... Around the Supreme Court they say Barry more,s suit for his $300,000 will never come to trial" |. Coucci, one of the great jockeys (i1is last scratch was Xalapa Clown in the Dubby) will pull "Gehrig" and quit. !. :. Gehrig will shortly announce nis own retirement, too. 117 bookies at Jamaica have lost OCT 400 Gs to date, a conservative estimate Frank Erickson's been hooked TOT $70,O00. The Bund meeting at Mad. Sd. Garden Bowl July 4 has been cancelled. At the Dutch Treat Club luncheon, John (Times) Kieran introduced Eve Curie, the radium lady's daughter, this way; Imagine a mugg like me introduc- ing dame like her!"
 The Federal agents are investigat- ing Nazi consular officers in the U. s. for activities similar to those over which Hitler purged his own Storm Troopers, including Roehm. .. The Department of Justicers have been probing the scandal quietly. :. The Heinies are alleged to have wooed several American soldiers in an at tempt (which failed) to get Army secrets.
 Nancy Carroll may give in and say yes to Van Smith, who flew in from the Coast again to shadow her. Ring Lardner's boy, John, and his wife expect their heir about May IS. June 2 may be the date for the Dorothy Lamour- Charlie Barnet merger in Mexico !. Lee Wiley, the thrush, is at Drs. Hosp overwork Clare Luce, the play wright (whose groom publishes Time, Life and Fortune), has made a sizeable contribution to the Vets of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion which fought Franco Ralph Pulitzer is seriously ill. Father Divine, via proxy, is dickering for the edifice at 124th and Lexington for another Heaven The phone firm is vacating it. .. The Circus paid off that bank most of the million it owed. It owes only 190 Gs now, with a terrific ticket advance on tour .. .. I'm in Love With the Honorable MT. Soandso," the new torch click, isn't steal from Dinner for One Please, James," It's an ecnol
 The Dies Committee will receive a sensational report (before this paragraph appears in The Washing ton HeralD with alleged proof that a Bund leader has criminal record in Germany, where he stole clothing from students at the Univ. of Munich, and for which he served fCur months in prison. Then, as > a shipping clerk, he thefted mer- chandise valued at 5000 marks. |. : In the preliminary examination of a recent case, the prosecutor ques- / tioned the Bundit as to whether or not he had criminal record. He re- piled: No" He may be deported for CD perjury upon entry to this country, and (2) perjury in applying for and receiving his citizenship.
 Elliott Roosevelt, Ralph Hitz and Anon Carter will call their new night club venture atop the Bel mont-Plaza Hotel "The Texas Ranch" The next A. F. A. (Chorus Girls Union war will be with N. T. G. He flew 20 girls from H'wood and when told he had to pay rehearsal coin, laid them of until week before the premiere, which rehearsals are gratis. .. N. T. G., not-too-good Wasn't there a raid in a midtown hotel Wednes- day ayem in which Federals collared two Nazis with illegal rec'g and sending radio apparatus? Jim- my Stout, who rode JohnStown to victory, and the Mrs. have phffft.
 The Omaha gazettes printed it, but none of the wire news services touched it. It happened during the Golden Spike festivities when the locals and invited guests wore period cistumes and carried guns Three were hurt because N. Y. columnist allegedly held his AS too close to victims .. Mrs. Ray Gage, wife Of a Union Pacific official, went to St. Josephs Hospital, when the wad from blank cartridge entered her foot an inch and half over the ankle .. Cecil B. DeMille's publicity man, Bill Hebert (and his lady com- panion) were other victims of the prankster, who also peppered his own toes and finally shot the right guy! And didn't he recently empty six-shooter with real bullets