The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-01
NM YORK mEARTnEAT

NEW YORK HEARTBEAT
 Faces About Town; La Frazier uppling at The Beachcomber with "Shipwreck" Kelly, the Prisoner 0, Brenda ., Alfred Lunt, window shopping with the Fontanne of Youth Richard Greene, the man who laughed when Fulton in- vented the steamboat, chugging down 57th street Music Master Raymond Paige, who predicted that the Brooklyn Dodgers would be tho talk of both leagues, screaming that he would walk Q mile for Camilli Legs" Grable flirting with Gargantua at the Circus Betty and the Beast Joan Crawford looking Spring over and approving it-and vice-versa, on 5th in the eos Gertrude Lawrence with a maht1er in Reuben's John Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tol- son of the F. B. l., dining in The Stork Club and what does anybody wanna make Of it2 At 50th and 9th, Robert Hutchins, Chicago University proxy, being handed one of those pamphlets which offers reward for job !. Peggy Joyce erecting the temperature of 6S- dripping in minkl
 Salllcs In Our Alley: Erika Mann, the talented writer, was telling II, Dietz, of Metro, that she had been to Princeton to sec Prof. Einstein
 OARaA lNAnt slksl rls.H lNlstA asked Dietz oh" said Erika, "T just pushed back his hair--and there he wasp Oscar Levant bumped into the George Jcssels as they were running across Broadway at 54th street Who's chasing you" gagged Oscar, "the tr,iant of ficersp" Brenda Forbes says Georgean Nathan, the critic, was home reading a play one night "and it was 70 bad--he walked out of his apartment!"
 Mem0s 0f q Midnlghtcr; ConSuelo and Muriel Vanderbilt have new romnnceS twin cowboys named Akorson. They own ranches In Car mel Valley, Cal. The lowdown on Woolleott's Illness is that he really Is The Man Who Went to Too Many Dinners Did Beverly BarbiSh, the Texas helrcSs, elope 10 Elkton with Wm, Leslie, 2ndp -. Teddy Powell and Marguerite James the chorus eyeful, will blend about June 18th Plenty of mutuel clerks were fired because Of short- ages at Jamaica. Flushed up, how ever John Kieran, of Info Please, is having orb trouble. Not allowed to read or make dates Loretta Dennison, Edmund Loves stage pod'ner, has broken her 2-wk engagement to Paul Dina of Mon- treal. Because he ca. L rumba! The Frankie (l8 Club flyers are threeing Spring sprung without a word Of apology, but, oh, what girl,Rh laughterl
 Midtown Vignette: We've enjoyed looking at them both for a long iime--she's so very pretty and he keeps trying to appear indifferent to her magic , We first saw them m c West 48th Street scotcnnsoda spol--one Of the unimportant places about two years ago They sat at tfe bar looking at each other in the mirror ahead An urchin walked in with c lone white carna- ton "F'lowers for your girl, mister?" he said He gave the boy a coin for the carnatlon and presented 1t to her From then on their romance seemed to float If the event is premiere of a play or night club she prob- ably Is the only gal in the bunch who won't wear orchids Pinned Co her shoulder or stuck in her hair is . sone white carnation,
 Broadway Smalltalk; Another night club needs money right away or 1t will have to do fadeout
 .. If your payday falls on Mon- day or Tuesday in i940 you'll be paid for 53 weeks in the year. Same thing happened to people who got paid on Sabbaths in 1859 Elaine Passett of the John Powers bunch has her own town car and chauf- fcur. That's what happens to good girls who are good models 7. Al 7th avenue hotel had 6 fair season so 1t built new marquee, It was completed at 2 D. m. Friday Half an hour later 18th floor guest bumped himself off by jumping