The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-20

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 How" the visitors inquire, "do they get away with it? What with the law and all-."
 Fact is, the municipal fathers considerably provided a loophole for such displays. They said that nudity must not be exploited in mobile guise: but that it is all right to emulate Eve in tableau.
 Thus, the impresalos are sure to have at least one tableau on their bills. And everybody is happy. Thus do tie big city fa- thers administer to their conStitu- ents' souls and Anna never fails to make the Grade A every night. MYSTERIOUS MANNER
 The Stork Clubs Sherman Bil- kingsley is the cafe man with the most lavish hand. He is the boni- face who casually sends costly champagne, perfume, neckties, shirts, cigars, jewelry and luxuri- ous what-notS to his customers from time to time.
 Not necessarily to celebrate an occasion, he often sends these gifts without rhyme or reason.
 Now one of MT. B's beneficiaries is James Thurber, the whimsical artist and humorist. Thurber has received more than ol4e of Billing sley's offerings and the other night he decided to reciprocate and dine with his wife and friends at the Stork Club.
 When he arrived there, the rope was strung, across the doorway. I'm sorry" the headwaiter said, "but only people with reservations can get tables. can't help you!
 So Thurber and his party went to Tony's and there he brooded for long hours on the mysterious manners of New York.
 ROSS PICKS A QUEEN
 Now that I am an official judge in the Worlds Fair Beauty Con- test Courtesy of Grover WhalenD |, I feel qualified to call out the comeliest lady at the moment in New York.
 Her name Is Della Lind. She won't be in the contest, so this is not by way of justifying a preju- dicial vote.
 Della Lind is the Lillian Russell of the Diamond Horseshoe extra vaganza. Lissome, flaxen-haired, ivory-Skinned, she is the most startling beauty of the town.
 Hers is an ironic story, too. Fleeing from Vienna, she was lur- ed to Hollywood with promises of a big future and with an assured lavish income.
 So she fingered in the cinema citadel a year and a half, earn ing her fabulous stipend and pin ing for something to do. Her discoverers had been distracted, somehow, and there was not a role in the wind.
 Finally, she upped and left, abandoning lucrative contract to take her chances on Broadway in her original role as a singer. In short time, she was in the limelight where this connoisseur decided that she was the fairest of the town.
 The other night, a movie scout dropped in for the tenth time to plead with the beauteous Della to go to Hollywood! She laughed him down.
 MUST HAVE BEEN MORTIFIED
 Jimmy Durante's zany explana- tion of how he came to meet Pro- lessor Albert Einstein: T jus pushed back a mop of white hair" says the long-nosed Durante, "and there he wuZ!"
 Incidentally, since Durante's show, stars in Your Eyes," came to town, stones throw from Sardi's that restaurant seems sud- denly injected with new life. For it is there that the schnozzle- nosed comic holds court nightly and really puts on a show at two o'clock in the morning.
 By that time, the premises are well cleared out and he has an audience of several Broadwayites. He convulsed group of us there the other midnight-to-daWning.