The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-25
Walter Willclleu Or BrOad7Cay
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come rom the ActorS-Stage pow-wow at Atlantic City was that one between Jean Muir and H. Jaf- fee, the 4A's counsel. Veddy humid veddy! Remember that gag viz: "The Italians in Rome are complaining that things were much better under Mussolini"? We'll, one of your inconstant readers phoned to say The Nation had it recently and that it is too priceless to be buried there And thought we were read! Quite a to-do at the Waldorf. A page went through the lobby yelling: Paging MT. Lepke, paging MT. Lepke!"
 What some wags won't do!
 works due any edition concerning Judge Martin recently acquitted in Brooklyn. The charges before Gov. Lehman against the judge are said to be identical with those against him 10 years ago, and of which he was exonerated. An additional charge is that the judge transferred a mortgage on his house to his son-to save what he could from creditors A prom inent Repub attorney has volun- tered to represent Martin gratis. May use your pass tot he Dia- mond Horseshoe tonight2 They are celebrating its 9th consecutive month with the same show, rec ord for a night club in town Since, that is, the run of the Zieg- field Roof shows I hear Miriam Hopkins is not so well. Took a dive posing for pictures the other day .. Nice gesture of Maxine Sui- livan, the sepia songstress. She gives away a dozen tickets every week to Negroes so they can see "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" That mysterious blonde who always gets picked at chorus and show girl calls and then never turns up again - is Elaine Bassett, sister of Honeychile Johnson. Seems she wants to pay the violin, not dis play her ankles, calves, thighs, etc. fixed Phil Bakers show Wednesday night-really a zipper He said he knows a guy who thinks they call Ann Sheridan oomph "because she plays the tuba" This was in The Commentator a honey: "When the plumber makes a mistake, he charges twice | for it: when a doctor makes a mistake, 1t is buried! When a judge makes mistake it becomes the law of the land, but when the journalist makes a mistake, the plumber, the doctor and the judge cry aloud for his blood!" =.
 Ain't it so? That Gloria Jean, Universal's new child star. is very good in her debut film, "The Un- derpup" saw a preview .
 Most torridancing at the Fair is done by Denise at the Extasie show. Naughty, but Denise Look is taking up Mussolini next-such talk!
 Talk about drama, a fellow named Tom Kelly, who was sentenced to ' to 12 years in jail at Waterbury Conn, has a Distinguished Service Cross from the govt for his hero- ism with the 102nd Infantry
 Dixie Davis will not appear at any freak show-he will try to be for gotten, I hear Remember il, June, 1888, when you gave Whitney Bottoms H'wood stuff plug and wrote that he rated syndication? Well, he now has 50 papers. Aren't you the little helper, though?
 The editor killed your quippy on wizard of O." but is getting laughs with it all over the office. can't wait to read and hear what Hitler supporters have to say in explaining the fact that Hitler js now Comrade Adolf . Boy, those explanations and speeches oughta be very comical .. All know, honey chile, is that Communism and Fas- cism-admitting that they like each other-did one thing for me. It made me like Americanism more ! than ever.
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