The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-02

| one of the group "SO what?"
 said the columnist, "and because of what F. D. R. is doing-perhaps l you've seen the last of the ghettos and slumsI" Rosita Ortega dances at the Ha- vana-Madrid, 2 Broadway Cuban rendezvous. During one speciality Rosita falls to the floor and feigns
 a faint Last night man
 rushed out and started to pick her
 up !. The walters tried to drag
 him away Its all right" pro- i tested the perfectly sober fellow,
 I'm a doctor!" The other middle of -the-night Mayor LaGuar-
 dia's slumberS were disturbed by
 three playful chaps who laughed I lustily in Central Park near his l apartment <. They were arrested
 and because they didn't have the $5 to pay their fines, went to jail. A columnist, whose sleep was
 disturbed the same day by wall- Wreckers Gin the apartment above
 his) phoned his landlord and plead
 ed for mercy All he received in return was a letter of apology instead of a strait jacket <. An actor was offered job at salary
 so small it doesn't rate a free ad here Nothing doing" he replied, I'm rather sell peanuts than work for them!" That George White Scandals" in (1927) which made $1 400, ,000 was the revue that featured Birth of the Blues," This Is My Lucky Day., and Black Bottom" Wonder if Neville Chamberlain knows that James Russell Lowell said: Com promise makes good umbrella, but a poor roof. It is a temporary ex- pedient often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in states manship" At the Fair the other i day MT. Whalen appointed Eddie Cantor as Honorary Guide No. l. strictly a reason, of course, to get news cameras clicking Whalen borrowed coat from little fellows uniform and squeezed Cantor into it. "Ah," and Grover, you seeL
 It fits like a glove" That's the trouble" said Eddie, 'it should | fit like a coat!" A lad tried to tell Henny Youngman, the wag, a gag "Oh," interrupted Young man, don't bother. I heard Milton Berle tell it tomorrow"
 The reason "If I Didn't Care" and Asleep or Awake, the popular torch songs, contain the same line: "Why does my head go round and
 round while my heart stands Still?" lis this: Jack Lawrence, who
 penned both lyrics, wrote it origin ally two years ago for the Care" ditty. It was his first song. But
 no publishers could be interested
 While that song was being ig-
 nored he collabed with Oscar Le- want on Asleep or Awake" and, fig uring his first effort would never
 get anywhere-he salvaged the line
 by transplanting it to the new num- Der, and sold it to publisher
 In the meantime the Four Ink
 Spots, sepians, came across Care"
 and made a recording of it for
 Decca. It came out about the time
 Asleep" did The Ink Spots platter became an immediate click and elevated them, an obscure quar- | tet, into top-salary entertainers and | into the steady-work brackets =.
 They got such response with this one recording that it has already brought them enough lucrative | bookings for the next two years. Il Duce's press agent, Gayda, left | himself open the other edition. He
 said: Nations do not go to war for | fun. Only barbarians make war
 weeks ago Mussolini said this in a
 speech: Only the weak fear war
 We Fascists are proud of our guns.
 We love to fight. It is sport with
 us!" Somebody oughta call
 rehearsal The New York State
 Chamber of Commerce claims that
 another war would cost three times
 as much money Isn't that like
 the guys who don't have to fight
 wars? Always thinking of how
 much money it'll cost-instead of
 how many lives A lot of young sters are graduating from college these days, A happy moment for them, their kin, friends-and gold fish In sentence: The s. O.
 s. sign is up on Broadway-instead
 of the S. R. O. Read this some-
 where: How men can hide their frontage or "Stummys" as chorus girls call "bay windows" Don't be lazy-hold in the stomach muscles
 so they will harden Sit tall.
 walk tall Jimmy Cannon's definition of an editor: "A dead re- porter"