The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-30

changes You wondered who did those Knox windows on 5th Ave- nue <. Her name is Jan Norriss. she did those figures and the hats on them, too Don't forget to announce that Edwin c. Hill bats you on the air starting July g for four Sunday nights.
 I met . columnist from Buda- pest at the Stork last night. Told me that a book was just published there called: ''Why Germany Cam not Win the War; It sold over 25 900 copies. in ten days, he said {. Meaning that Hungary could have stopped 1t, had it wished considering that Hitler thought he had the country in the bag {. It bears out stateman's re- mark made over 100 years ago, that "the Hungarians are always ready. to sell their country - but they never deliver it!" x. What ever became of that gag about the patron asking the waitress: ''What time is it?" and the reply: Sorry, this ain't my tablet" .. It's in the film, Good Girls Go to Pariss '. There is talk that Tommy Cor coran will inherit Comm. Me- Ninch's post on the Federal Com munications Comm. I wonder. He needs more excitement than that \. ]. Leo Casey, new press chief at the Fair would like to talk to you.
 Beth Brown who earned dimes as playwright for three years is back doing pieces for the fan mags and fiction, too. Earning up to $900 a week at it t. Ripley is hav- ing union troubles for his Odd itorium. It may not open for an- other two weeks The papers just discovered that Japan and Russia have been having a private little war for over year. That's the neatest trick in long time, hiding a war! . Woollcott says that sketch in Streets of Paris" (which he used in The New Yorker and then in White Rome Burns'c was not by DeMaupassant, at all. He heard 1t from Gilbert Miller in 1880, but it is a famous tale :. Woollcott says try to find it in any of DeMaup's works.
 Jim Fully has joined the colyum- ing army on the Coast for a new weekly .. One of his quips is good. He met a pal who helps a rival gather his stuff .. The columnist gets a fancy salary and has sev- eral other helpers j.. Just think" said Tully, "one good man could gather all that hokum in an hour!" "Mebbeso." said the pal, "but he'd need a heluva big shovel!" . {. I heard Cantor sing South Amer ican Way" on the air. didn't know. he could really sing! :. Good having him back on Broad way Riddle me this: How come they use such tiny theater as the Astor for such big hit as
 Chips" when it could pack the other local MGM temples? Do you think that firm needs a genius? I ilhC cON 1OWio ODoCA fdSAOhi. ."There is only one kind of beau tiful friendship-an egoist's."
 Dorothy Thompson is back from the coast. Doesn't renew on the air for the same sponsor. she is dickering with three of them :. After the Buckner, Jr., fraud trial ends, Broadway and the smart spot" night clubs will get big news A playboy known to Miami Beach and New York will get a going over by Attorney General Murphy's staff I've heard you say for years that you wondered how he always had so much coin Too bad so many chorus girls will have to go through the ordeal with him And now. as Mir. Fitz- patrick always says in his travel logues, I take my reluctant leave from dear old Tahiti. mean the daily grind, for month I'm going on one of those cruises to the West Indies, and whatever you hear about me e-it1l be true! Happy Sun-Lamp!
 YOUR GIRL FRIDAY.