The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-27
MEMOs OF A COLUBENEBT'S
GIRL FRIDAY a.

GIRL FRIDAY ~
Dear Mr.. w.: DR.. Dafoe wants you
to call him at the Waldorf soon as
you come in Mr.. 9. Is check
ing that Capone rufnor Ward
Morehouse's new book, as Minutes
Past 8" tLEal Press), is my idea
Of breathless Broadway shop-talk
See Variety (Leglt, Inside
Stuff. page So, paragraph 4
Your Life mag has a "Confucius"
box, duly quoted 81. True and Real
Detective lnags feature Lepke this
month Hildegarde, I hear, may
get the role Marlene p. almost got
in Irving Berlin's show, Louisiana
Purchase" +. Some of the U. s.
senators are sizzling over the film,
Mr.. Smith Goes to Washington, ?
and are merely waiting until Holly
wood needs some help to even mat
tiers The mother of that five
year old child in Peru (who recently
gave birth to healthy baby told
the doctor the blessed event followed
the 5-year ODDS bathing in "a
81 -red pool" near the house. etc. !.
The child-motler now hates the.
baby.
Add wishful thinking: The N. X.
Times has a seven-c column obituary
ready on A. Hitler Yours prob
ably is considerably less =. Richard
L. Stamf1 and Jennie Berk are to
be wed today. She's an exec over
at the Girl Scouts of America !.
Jack Haley almost got the Dole
Pineapple Juice radio program
until someone remembered that in
Hawaii a rival firm is called Haley
Pineapple Juice September
Song" from "Knickerbocker Holi-
day." which you couldn't stop
whistling, is too close to Fritz
Kreisler's Souvenir" so no Won
der \. Remember that DEATH
defying stunt by .Shipwreck" Kelly
on top of a And st. building last
week? 4. Well, It was a publicity
stunt for which he risked his life
for a measly $40.
Johannes Steel and A. Spiro (for-
mer city ed at the JournaD start
that new Brooklyn tab nov. Is. One
rumor is that the coin came from
the Repub. Party Carmen
Miranda, / hear, saw Imcgene Co
cas- travesty on her routine Cat a
benefit Sunday eve'g) and is very
miffed about it. That's not the
North American way !. :. There's a
purge on again at Sunday gazette
o1yaodxy firad
I Just heard that one about Kous-
sevitsky the conductor. who got to
the podjum a minute before broad
casting time. He tapped his baton
for attention and leaned towards
his men. Listen" he said. you
know what I'm supposed to do. so
let's do it and don't look at me
it makes me nervouSF
sec where Saroyan hypnotised
all the critics but one with his
sSond rate imitation of Odets at
the Booth theater . !. I can't stand
a drunk giving me double talk for
three minutes. let alone for three
hours. But at the Booth tbeater 1t
IL considered philosophy. Philoso-
pflooey! Eddy Duchirl just
phoned Said there's nothing
wrong with Hitler that a funeral
can't fix The Sidney King
sleys (Madge Evans) have sent for
a nursery architect n Father
VIII Whalen of Pennsylvania has
a new book due. called ''The Priest
Goes to Confession" That fugi-
tive from a. cell (Wm. D. Pelley),
who used his rag to libel anybody
he disagreed with. is safer in his
fideout Too many people
looking for him who want to per-
sonally break his nose :. That
Huntington woman who bailed out
Browder will be dropped from the
Social Reg That1l learn her!
At the moment of the seizure of
the "City of Flint" five American
ships were being held in British
ports without much notice in the
u. s. press. which shows the "neu-