The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-02

AsEAGOs OF A COLUAlNIsT's
GIRL FRIDAY
Dear Mr.. Column: Well. thissl
burn you UP and knock you coIdI
TWO paragraph burglars named
Miller & King on And street are
publishing every "Confucius" crack
we've printed and are peddling them
for dime a bunch semi-monthly.
The Daily Mirror attorneys, Of
course, viii put stop to that. What
a racket That's the MCCOY
about Jack Benny lifting with his
sponsor after all these years. He
seeks a terrific pay-raise and they
don't wanna Peggy Joyce re-
ceived $1,000 from Look magazine
to write her version Of. 10 Mos!
Glamorous Men" Martha Raye
phoned. The rift rumors, she vows
are spurious.
Carlo is being gIamOrized. Had
the first beauty treatment of her
life during her stay in town. DR.
E. Laszlo, the Budapest cosmetolo-
gist, directed it. Greta, it seems,
never owned a jar of cold cream
and has gone in for an orgy Of
feminine clothes !. i. She upset the
shoe dept. of a famed store the
other morning. Left without buy
ing a pair! They all were SO de-
pressed The Stork Club is siZ-
zling about Elsa Maxwell,s rap at
it in Look, as are others. Elsa
said the food at Twennywon Is
inexpensive" A humorist, too!
''Vanities'' closes here tomorrow
Jerry Lister was the comedy hit
and is trying to get out of the rum
of-the-show (for the tour)- agree
ment :. The New Yorker mag Is
assigning man to Hollywood late
in the month, in case you wanna
worry them out there !. /. Mary Orr
the actress, and Paul Vincent Car
roll, the playwright, are neighbors
at the Algonquin and it looks seri-
GUS The carpenters have started
to work on the Aquacade at the
Fair, so it looks as though Spring
will soon be here.
How badly was Dolores Grant
of the Royal Palm show hurt iii
that crash Desk wants to know
Also check on Dewey's asst
who is working on certain "boys"
in Miami. Preparing a big case. we
hear up here You said you
never heard of Kitty Carlisle's cur
rent companion, Decio deMoura
He's the secretary general of Brazil
Can you mention the Help
Finland Cabaret" night at the
Waldorf Feb. 7th? 1t will be a ter
rifle lineup of stage, screen and
radio biggies ]. :. That new Brook
lyn paper Is definitely deferred =. :.
That potent drink is caleld Sing
apore Sling" not Singapore Sting
err" Sissies drink them.
The Paradise closed, it seems
because a man who worked there
for six years and always got his
wages on time had to wait a
week for his salary recently and
SO he complained to his union,
which started the action which
shut it up. He threw about 200
people out of jobs. Nice man !.
They are saying. too, that Mr..
Kingsley threw 40 actors out Of
work because a member Of the
Equity Council (Winifred Leni-
han) made remark he considered
offensive as he was about to post
a bond irlsurfng- continuance Of
his play. The final weeks business,
hear, was very big 49,. Tempera-
ment is so terrible.
Father Duffy's famous statue in
Times Square has engraved Con
the side of its base) the many
citations which that beloved Soldier
of God was awarded in his life
time. But the line that would
have made him happiest was
scrubbed in chalk at the bottom
of that distinguished list. 1t says
simply: "He was swell guy!"
Allan Prescott was just in
Said that it is obvious that the
bloke who writes those commune
ques from the Western Front GER
tainly can't be working on space
rates! =. Gould 1t be true that
Paul MUM has special entrance
from his dressing room to the
stage no one must use but Mr.. NJ?
=. Next time you have an orchid