The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-30

SUldrC OdTUeu-
der, had settled about 800 incipi-
ent fist fights based on whether
or not England should have sent
planes to Poland or whether Hit
Ter should have done this or that.
Tony has an infallible system. He
sizes up the probable nationality
of the customers and makes his
decisions accordingly.
Usually he ends with a plea for
strict neutrality and a suggestion
that the patrons try Ms keep
Out of War" cocktail. Two of
them, Tony says, and anyone will
be rejected by the army.
THERE'S A DARK
SIDE TO THE PICTURE
That is the lighter side of the
war. There is a grimmer side
the foreign sections. New York
is a patchwork Of the nations Of
the world and the hostilities
abroad have had deep effects. In
Yorkville most thinking Germans
are worried lest there be a recru-
descence of the i'll feeling that
marked the World War.
The militant pro Nazi groups
also have become subduded, for
they would be the most vulnera-
BILE. Along Third Avenue where
the Czechoslovakians have been
mourning the loss of their gallant
little nation, there is renewed
hope that the Allies will win and
reconstitute the republic. The
Polish district is sad, although
proud that its little army so long
withstood the siege of Warsaw.
Only the other night there was
a dance there, one of the first in
some time. The French have split
up, living all over town and so it
is difficult to get a broad reac-
ton. But French restaurant pro-
prietors I have spoken to all are
agreed that La Patrie will emerge
victorious.
They exhibit no hatred of Ger
an-Americans, though, which is
a most hopeful sign. The Scandi-
navian districts in Brooklyn are a
little alarmed that the fatherlands
will be drawn into the struggle
willy-nilly.
BROADWAY,
HERE GO
Someone once sailor should
have said that actors spend
much of their career trying to
reach Broadway-and then spend
most of their time away from
Broadway capitalizing on the emf
nence. Such is the case with AL
fred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne,
most celebrated of our acting hus-
bands and wives, who are about
to embark on a tour of the prov
inces. This is motivated partly
by desire to reach as wide an
audience as possible and again
by the knowledge that the horizon
is lined with gold for the troupe
that can reach it.
BY THEIR PENMANSHIP
We SHALL KNOW THEM
7 fell into a philosophical ex-
change the other night with a
lady handwriting expert. BY the
curve of their penmanship, she
insists, people give themselves
away and reveal their innermost
secrets.
The handwriting experts name
is Helene Carol. Here Is one of
her dictums, based upon the two
of three RS which she closely
studies. The 'Rithmetic is not
within her ken, for she has
trouble even computing the &C
curacy of a luncheon check.
"a woman's writing" she says,
usually is small and compact
and that indicates a secretive
mind. I know that men will
neither like nor believe this, but
you will notice that women talk
more than men and they can talk
all around a subject without tell
ing anything they don't want to
reveal"
And she referred me to all the
spy stories, where it is always
the man who "tells all" to wom-
an, never the other way around.
BY a pencil-stroke shell we men
be Vanquished.