The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-29


 FDR is not signed by Golfers Cor anybody to start writing articles in November, as an alleged low down had it all week. This was sup posed to definitely mean he wasn't 3rd-Terming it. Well, Sec'y of Com merce H. Hopkins will betcha that he runs and is elected Mrs. Angler Riddle Duke will have her groom Renotarized this week |. Mrs. Forbes Morgan and c. Wander bilt, Jr., are poddon me! D. Topping tells chums he will wed Sonia Henie in about three wks. .. How untrue is that buzz about War den Lawes being on the verge of reSigning from his Sing Sing job? Adelaide Moffett (Mrs. w. Buckner) will have her little Big Event in Mexico Ambassa- dor J. Divies may pinch-hit in Can ada for James Cromwell The Pulitzer Prizes this year may in tlude one for radio If you could see the postcard photos of the late c. Ernecke (which the G-Men were prepared to use at the Front srs' triaD, you'd know why he pre- ferred suicide .. In Washington the current gag is: Hear what Confusevelt Say?"
 On March 27th, 194O, at meeting of high-ranking. Communists. in Philadelphia, plans were made to send members of the Commy Party to the field offices. of the. FBl throughout the nation Not only to watch them but to offer infOr- nation, concerning "COmmunistic activities" which, of course, would not reveal anything of value They hoped in this way to gradually gain the confidence of some G-Man and then attempt to involve him ill a situation which might embarrass the entire FBI This was to be part of their smear campaign =. It is itemed here now to let them all know that all concerned are hep
 Dorothy ThompsOn's pals heal that she got gay in Rome and saio several indiscreet things about MT Big. Her New York paper is sup posed to have been cabled to with draw her Martha Sleeper the actress (and jewelry designer got a very quiet explosion from Hardie Albright, the playwright-ac' tor, in Miami Beach on April 22nd Vernon Duke, the composer was appendicitis at St. Johns hosp The New Yorker and Janet Hammer (their Paris reporter) art having a mild feud over whether she or the mag should pay for the bike she is taking back to Paris be- cause she can't get gas for her cal there Anything to that buzz about the Daily Worker quitting here and resuming in Philadelphia under a new name? Lovely Inpid Bergman of "Liliom" ant "Inermezzo" knows so few people and is so lonely - that she visit the local Selznick offices almos every day to talk to the receptioriist
 When Alex Woollcott had hi heart attack the other matinee day the producer is reported to hay, dismissed the coast :'Man Wh' Came to Dinner" troupe with on days notice. The producer claime' that the closing was caused by "al act of God" The cast, however is going to fight it out before Equit, claiming that WOollcOtfs strok was not an act of God, but that h. deliberately brought it on himsel by drinking 40 cups of coffe' daiIy!"
 Editors here are trying to check l Von Ribbentrops son still goes t' Harvard .. Chas. Yale Harrison the author, weds a schoolmarm Ma, 9th His 3rd Term Tal ented Asst Att'y-Genl Thurman Ar holds antitrust busters won 105 indictments in the building probe alone! He didn't lose an anti-trus case in 1889 t. The Court of Alp peals decision on the Hines convic tion may be stalled until after tn Repub convention Counsello Sabbatino, who defended Fritz Kuhl can't get the Bund to pay him This means Fritzs appeal stumped Nancy Wiman, tn producers daughter, is ailing at NeI York Hosp Unless her childrel talk her out of it, the ex-Mts. Ray mond Rubicam will marry the Mar quis Pescara of Italy in June F. A big shakeup is going on at on of the biggest music firms over missing 40G's Clarence Gould who married Dario's former dancini mate, Diane, is quoted as talking di Vorce.
 Some time ago we ran the denia of Dorothy Thompson. after w heard that Msgr. Sheen (whO con verted Haywood BrOun) was givin her instructions We challenges the source again last week afte he insisted our denial was bum re porting .. He replied: "Her nam is still on the list of those takin instructions" and when the gOO' Padre was asked point -blanl whether or not the report was tru about Miss Thompson changing he faith, he answered beautifully Maybe she isn't changing her faitl perhaps she is just finding it."