The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-10

Faces About Town: Flora Robson.
the assassin in Ladies in Retire
ment." telling critic: I'VE all ware
5000 frightfulleh worried opening
night. We feah'd you critics would
Kill us before we could get in our
own dirteh work." :. Doc Da-
foe doodling on a Magyar restaurant
incentive tiny triangles :. Jo-
Eephine johnson, Brenda Frazier
II, taking lessons from Peggy Hop
kins joyce at Cafe Louis XIV -. -.
r. Chase Taylor signing his real
name for the Cotton Club autograf-
Colonel Stoopnagle to radio
fans Gov. Murphy of New
Hampshire looking over the locals
in the Biltmore lobby :. Jack Ha-
Haley, who does an act with a seal
in "Higher and Higher" which re-
minds you of Lou Holtz's cane
Shirley Ross OF that show well
come addition to New York's Thigh
line Vera zorina'S old country
charm. Maybe it's her ftgger . :.
Ed Wynn convulsing a Stork Club
group of stay-ups with a clown
runlba Lana Turner, Americas
Sweater-H Heart.
SaIlies In Our Alley: One of the
Tobacco Road" cast, who has been
in that Marathon since it started
six years ago, was boasting about
its long run . cts the first
time" observed Charles Walters,
"that / ever heard of anybody
Dragging about being in rut!" :. .
Eddie Carr was watching a couple
Of squirrels playing in Central Park
when two pigeons alighted near by
;. "Led's CO." groaned one Of
the squirrels, chose darn talking
pigeons who make all the columns
are back again!" :. . Then there's
the one about the Lobster who was
romancing an Oyster Another
ledy oyster asked her what hap
pcned "Well," replied the first
irster, first he put his claws around
me. Then he kissed me-and then:
ObrnigaWd-my pearls!"
Memos Of a Midnighter: Listen to
Careless and then to Angel
too close Evidently the flowers
that bloom in the spring, ira, la. do
not include Grover Whalens gar
denia j.. Isn't Scott Morrow, the
2i-lear old vocalist with the Sleepy
E2ll crew al the Biltmore Hotel, a
nevvieW Of The late Dwight Nor
rowland kin to Anne Lindbergh?
The Waipbow Woom to date
hes cost the Rockefellers one mil
lion two hundred thousand skins :.
E.Oiland House Taverne in RCckefel-
Ter Center opens tomorrow. Every
thing Dutch but the treat . . II
Artie Shaw hates the jitterbugs sc
mllcn what was he doing at the
Savoy Ballroom in Harlem last We'd
nasday night with Lana? De-
scli,,tion OF Ben Bernie's program
The Oucho Serenade."
New York Novelette,: For 20 years
the boys who hang around the joint
tell you, this little Jap worked hare
sla5ing in a gambling house. HI
Numbered cuspidors while his bosses
cleaned out the chumps Hi
salary was SIS per session-which HI
received at the end of each day
Every night he would put ava!
enough for his room rent, rolls ant
coffee. Then he would risk tn
rest of the FLYER for "one roll" a
craps For 20 years he couldn'
win anything-until one night h
walked out With $4,000 Gunner
heard of his fortune and decided t.
give him a hyst-but the willy JaI
shook them and visited anothe
gaming spot where he tripled hi
coin For a week his luck wa
phenomenal every game h
played was profitable. He was
mint Finally, the gorillas 60
weary of trailing a phantom-s
they broke into his furnished roof
end tore it apart looking for hi
cabbage" and lettuce" - out the
couldn't find a dime The mex