The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-22
THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF A
CUE REPORTER

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CUB REPORTER
Happy War Item: He was a top
dance director In Hollywood. Taught
Shirley Temple, Alice Fay and many
others how to hoof She was
name" in Europe, once welded to
the ziegfeid Of Norway and Sweden
She came /. to Hollywood and
her first film was q flop foolish
story, shoddy direction, etc. -. She
returned to The Old Country !.
The Hollywood dance director fol-
lowed He became a big hit
in the London night club sector with
his own joynt ). They were mar
ried. Such happinessI Then
Came the War . They fled to
her home in Oslo The bomb
ers followed And dropped their
eggs close enough to let them feel
the splinters -. They took their
children Cone by the ex-husband)
and sought refuge all over Europe
They finally landed in the
USA /. Old friends never forgot
:. Money gone, London night club
and home in Oslo loSt-Buddy De-
sylvia gave Jack Donahue role
In Panama Hattie" :. The girl is
the beautiful Tutta Rolfe.
Douglas Leigh, the Broadway cleo
tricg-sign-magnate CHS newest is
the Wilson sign at 46th Street for
the White-Lowell firm) tells this
about Capt. White, /. About a
decade ago White and handful
of men were pioneering the African
Always and one of their group "a
famed war ace and stunt flyer at
tempted a dangerous hop from East
ern Africa to Central Europe :.
When no word came, White assigned
one of his men, a British aviator,
to search for the missing pilot
Risking his life in the unchartered
skies, the British birdman finally
spotted the wreck on a tiny isle,
radioed for help and rescued the
disabled flyer from his doom =. Ten
years later, the life which was saved
by o British Royal Air Force plane
was to dedicate itself to the death
of Britain The man the Eng
lishman rescued was Captain Udet,
Germany's star stunt man, who Is
in charge of invading parachutists,
Several years ago, when F. D. r.
summoned the big business men to
the White House Ito discuss improv-
ing conditions), one of them was
Wendell Willkie. Jimmy Roosevelt
who was his fathers secretary at
the time, was a friend of WILKES
and took him in to meet F. D. r
They weren't together two minutes
when they got into furious ar
gumcnt. Afterwards, as he was
leaving, Wilkie said to Jimmy
your father has terrific person
alty, but what a stubborn mani
A moment later the Presi-
dent called Jimmy into his office
and said: "Your friend, Willkie, has
terrific personality, but he GER
tainly is stubborn!"
There should be a moratorium
called on candidates speeches. They
have both called each other every.
thing they can think of. From nov
on they are jus. talking themselves
out of votes. The high office O
President of the United States ha
degenerated into two ordinary fin,
men being goaded on by their poll
tical leeches into saying things that
if they were in their right minds
they wouldn't think of saying. Thi
country is a thousand times bigge
than any two men in it, or any tw'
parties in it. These big politicians
are so serious about themselves ant
their parties. This country has got
ten where 1t is-in spite of politics
not by the aid of it. That we hay,
carried as much political bunk a.
we have and still survived. show
we are a super-nation. And we CAL
be thankful for that, to the people
not to any Republican or Demo
crat. So you two boys just get tn
weight of the world off your Shout
ders and go fishing. You will be do
ing everybody q big favor and yo'
will be surprised, but the old U.
A. will keep on running while vol
two boys are sitting on the bank
Then come back on November 6tl
and we will let you know which on
of you is the lesser of two evils.
THE above is from the Nov.
1882, N. Y. Times box Of Will Rog
ers.)
Mae Keith Johnston, wife of Coli
Keith Johnston, the actor who frs
attracted attention in America witt
his work in M.IollrneV,S End ha