The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-09
THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF A
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CUB REPORTER
 They say that was a swell word brawl when the Normandie landed last week Between Jay Allen, the ex-foreign correspondent, and Jim Duffy, the World -Telly's ship newser .. Allen, it appears, tried to prevent the reporters from inter- ' viewing Juan Negrin, former Span ish Loyalist Premier And then the word-war exploded .. Mrs Catherine Hayes Brown, mother ot star Helen Hayes, is completing her biog of her daughter for Random House. She's doing it in the novel form of letters to her granddaugh- ter, Mary MscArthur z. The Fair they say, must attract 300,000 ad- missions daily to click Perhaps it opened too early, at that .N Henny Youngman, a clever clown handed Ben Bernie his best gag in decades, to wit: "I'm not going to any war. They're hot going to shoot me with any Sixth Avenue Ell"
 The Hollywood Reporters column ist listed Jamestown as the film colony's choice to win the Ky Dubby That nag's son, Johns- town, won Just another case of Hollywood being generation be- hind the times It was sad to see Lou Gehrig benched after g. 130 steady first-basing jobs with the Yankees, but hardly worth all the breast beating on the sports pages If you turned the pages you'd have found an almost cheerful ac- count of the benching of thousands of WPAaupers The movie stu dios are wondering if the kegs of coin they squandered toting report CTS to Omaha, Dodge City, etc, helped their flickers at all The press agents wrote lavishly, but mostly about the ballyhoo, hardly ever about the pictures! In a word, the publicity - got the pub lcity!
 Sen. Reynolds (N. Car) bombast- ed that America should take sleep ing powder to prevent the people knowing any more about the horrors of Europe The fact that the idea got the loudest hurrah from Fritz Kuhn and his bodyguards- indicates how useful the senator's idea is-to the Ratzis Thornton Wilder declined to gab about the play he's writing, pleading that it is bad luck to discuss an unfinished work :. Worse luck, as MT. Wilder may recall from "The Merchant of Yonkers" to finish it President Roosevelt is scolded by Vox-Popoff ip the N. Y. Times for pronouncing it "constitootion" Perhaps, the explanation is, the President considers it more an instrument of goyt-than an exercise in diction.
 How that Their Majesties are on thor way to the U. s. A., this one should be timely At the Empire Fair in London, in 1924, horrifeid Englishmen watched a giant Ameri- can slap King George on the back. Put it here, old boy" he boemed, "I've just landed and you're ths first honest-to-goodness King I'vs ever seen!" The King was amused. He shook hands T can readily believe that" he said with smile, flor I see that you have not even had time to familiar ize yourself with our customs!"
 Bill Robinson, the Cotton Club and Hot Mikado'' star, stopped to have his shoes shined by little colored boy "Howz business?"' asked Robinson .. The lad shook his head sadly "Then," said Bill, "why don't you work in Har- lem? There's a lotta shoes that need shines up there" The lad looked up at Bill You mean" he said, up there-there's a lotta shines need shoes"
 Werner Fink, the German actor, recently jailed in Berlin for making jokes about the Nazi big shots, was freed for while on condition that he stick to his old Kaiser Wilhelm routine of pantomime Fink agreed, but after each silent speciality -as the ex-Kaiser-Fink would make this little curtain speech while still in the Kaiser makeup and cos- tune "Now. how would you like" he'd say. ito have me come back?" The Kaiser fans ap- plauded so lustily and long that Actor Fink is now back in a Con- centration Camp.
 Following Attorney General Frank Murphy's settlement of the sit-down strikes, one of the really important motor magnates called upon him. Governor" he said earnestly, "this is an historic event. You have ended Americas greatest in- dustrial crisis-without the loss of a drop of blood!" T decline any personal honors," was the solemn answer. "the people in an industry can always reach an agreement when no liberties are suppressed!" 0 c ~