The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-11

NEW YORK HEARTBEAT
Faces About Town: sgt. Mike
Donaldson, New York's greatest
World War hero, enhancing a corr
ner group at 51st and Seventh with
how to rid the U. s. Of Its s.-akes
Ben Bernie contemplating his
bagel in Lindy's The Beach,
comber floor show watching the
ringsiding Gary Coopers Oscar
Levant, miserable over the recent
cclyuming vogue of pinning oldies
onto his name. zone column" he
wept, credited me with a gag
300 years old. It's In all the biogra-
phies Of great musiciansl" John
Powers picking pretties at Steeple-
chase's Modern Venus contest
James Roosevelt in the Stork Club,
excited about his forthcoming anti
Nazi flicker based on the life Of
Pastor Niemoeller zorina fight
ing the humidity--looking SO wan,
SO tahd and so what.
Sallies in Our Alley: One Of those
whoopsy boys fluttered into Cog
Rouge last night and gushed: "Oh,
dearl just flew in from the coast!'
"By plane?' someone rneow'd :.
Elsa Maxwell was complaining about
the expensive cost Of her footwear
Who" she was asked, lis
your blacksmith" At Lum
Fong's, a group Of us were pro-and-
coming the actors who appear In
the Barn Circuit theaters ;. prom
all the hams I've seen in them"
said critic, "they oughta call them
Summer Stock-yards."
Memos Of q Midnighter: Fiji D.
Orsay's new heart is the N. Y. City
Homicide Squads handsomest detec-
tive >. It's girl for the j. Morans
Of Young & Rubicam. The mamma
Is the former actress, Thelma Ritter.
At Lying-In Hosp .. Dorothy
Fields, who collabed on II Can't
Give You A. B. Love, Baby" and
her groom expect to use that hit
as lullaby soon Edw. Berger
has succeeded l.. Clark as m. e. over
at the Morning Telegraph i. (. The
hellhops Of the Times Square hotels
havee lected j. Durante, Squire Of
Times Square Apparently be-
cause he's a Square-guy and not a
Square-head The Mutual net
work vii lsoon have a program
based on a radio commentator who
exposes With Column activities
Remember when colyumists were
criticized because they footed their
own horns? Well, the N. Y.
Times now takes full page ads 10
paot Its back in its own paper
Worlds Fair show folks whisper that
they found another ticking bomb
without dynamite at the British Pa
vilion the very next day, but hushed
1t Eddie Davis Of Leon g. Ed
dies stopped singing one OF his
ballads to flatten a ringsider who
wouldn't stop being funny
Critic Dick Watts Is waiting word
b cover London's rendezvous with
Fate.
Midtown Vignette: He was a
ragged little boy peddling hand
ful OF posies Thursday at $3.50 p. m.
near 47th and 7th :. The big, we'll
ted man ambled up. grabbed the
Kids arm and twisted 1t cruelty
telling the child to keep off the
streets with his damned old flow
ers I. The boy whimpered and a
crowd gathered :. The big bad man
disconnected by the ring Of accus-
ing eyes, let 60 OF the boys wing
and In a flash the kid ran Off
shouting a childish curse through
his tears The bully was en-
ragged. He gave chase, lodging Wild
ly through tangled traffic (.
Suddenly shrek and screeching
Of brakes The kid Is lying still
n the gutter, his flowers crushed,
his body broken =. A great crowd
gapes =. An ambulance takes him
away And a moment or two
later white wing sweeps up the
crushed flowers.
Sounds In the Night: At Leon Il
Eddie's: Bore Is too mild a word
for him. He's sort Of a pneumatic
drill" At The Tavern: what
happened? I came In with an I'LL
terror motive!" In Club IS:
Jack White squelching tipsy femme
heckler with knock-knees: Hey,
lady! You gotcher legs on wrong!"
At Spivy's: "Its one of those
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