The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-04

MAN ABOUT TOWN
 Al CapOne has not and never had paresis, according to the diagnosis Lou Gehrig's condition has suddenly taken a change for the worse, and chums are fearful 7. Bert Wheeler and Grace Gillren, the chlorine, will honeymoon soon ., Polly Warren is getting Q Flori- division and may next become Mrs. Chas. Dow Fritz Kreisler, the fiddler, smashed his right paw in an auto door ;. Town and Country's December issue will put the blast on the Vanderbilt clan via a smartar- ticle christened: "The Vanderbilt Legend" The Will Oaklands (after decades of marriage) have phffftl Eddy Duch's numer- ous reported alliances were not true his intimates allege. But this is: Duchin and Meredith Howard, the ex-Follies girl Next month a 70-year old lady will try to adopt a 29-year old handsome lad If Fritz Kuhn gets Year and 1 Day 1t will revoke his citizenship.
 The frau of . German agent in Washington, D. C., has everyone wondering about her strange con- duct =. At dinner parties, and in front of responsible public officials, she makes such remarks as: Ger many will not be happy until Hit Ter Is assassinated" One school of thought contends she Is merely dumb; another that she Is deliber- ately denOuncinS her government to work her way into the confidence of people. That Matter .. Silly woman.
 Mary Martin leaves for H'wood right after her local engagement. She can't get the coin she wants in New York-claims her buildup was too hurried .. The Jerry Sebastians (the former Dolores Hutchins) have a baby girl Larry Schwab has gone home to Florida to recuperate, Docs told him if he wants to live he must Bhelve show business The ex- Mrs. Ted Deglin will re-marry soon. He is John Owen Fox, the Chicago Opera barytone Louisville edi- tors are urged to check with Mrs. Laura Drain Edwards, 25, wealthy and socially prominent widow about the Identity of her Yuletide holiday visitor. He may be Hedy LaMarr's ex-groom, Fritz Mandl. They met on a cruise two months ago -. Mrs. Edwards Is very pretty and not unlike Hedy They prob- ably will wed before New Years.
 He Is 31 He got SIS per week as a messenger for Mike Meehan. =. He paid $S1 900 for a Stock Ex- change seat In September. 1884 (. In September 1889 he peddIed 1t for 61 -. Why? T got fed up with falre values and the Hate. Roosevelt b0yp down in Wall street {. For the last four months he's been making S22.7O per week as a laborer in an iron foundry in Bessemer, Ala. "T0 find out what real Americans arc like and to learn the business from the very bottom" (. In . year he may be assistant to the President of the U. s. Pipe and Foundry Co. He gets up at 5:20 .. m, walks . mile and half to work, and quits at D. m., grimy and dirty -. Quentin Reynolds kid brother, Jim.
 Gene Tunney is sore as all get out at his pals at Madison Sy. Gar den--for letting Providers Commys gather there Garbo and Dietrich, who were listed as box office poison last year, are playing to standing room only-making their attacker look very sappy A I'll. nor has Jimmy Walker and Jack Dempsey heading new restaurant combine, maybe as front men The new Columbus Circle apartment building (going up at Broadway and b9th) may be stuck trying to get steell When 1t is completed those soap.box meetings in the Circle will be against the law. No gatherings within 100 feet of an apartment house, etc" .. A "Tiddley' is what Hwood calls "the last drink '. Let's have 6 tiddley," they say |. :. And that's what gets you drunk those last tidleys Ben Warden wants 24 show girls for his new spot at Havana. Apply to Chester Hale.
 One day recently . British mer- chant visiting New York friends.