The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-10


 she hollered, "when you went around with those other women, but when you romanced my best friend --tliat was the unkindest cut of all you ratl" "Lissen," he said, "the way you've been watching me, who else could date2"
 The usual fOOtIight fairy tale about the understudy who waits and hopes for something calamitous to happen to the star SO that she may rise and shine in her place is re- versd in a current Broadway 1t The understudy doesn't want to be anything but an understudy-- she wants the star to go on knock ing them dead night after night only hoping that her salary check as understudy keeps right on com ing in The reason is simple enough--the understudy has been Q greater star than the star is-- she knows all about the glitter and the glory-but her run of luck has been SO bad lately that she's afraid to jinx her present job (and the hit) by getting her name in lights again She Is June Walker, Dorothy stickney's understudy in Life With Father"
 When Oscar Strauss, the compos- CT, was in financial distress Q few years ago in Vienna, the song writers group headed by Gene Buck brought him to the U. 8. and got him some profitable work in Holly wood The composer of "The Chocolate Soldier" went back to Eu. rope with the American money and has just become Q citizen of Francel .. And 50 has Fritz KreiS- Ter, who has earned fortunes In the U. S. each winter Speaking of composers reminds us that the San- tarita Hotel ct Tucson, Ari1., paid tribute this week to George Ger shwin via Q memorial concert and dance So sincere was the tri- bute-there was no admission charge Lewishon Stadium (N. Y) please note.
 The London Daily Express rec ports this quip: They've changed all the signs in the Berlin parks Instead of Don't walks on the grassl" they now read: Don't eat the graSsl" A timely quip, of course But that one was popu- lar over here during the depression The Manchester Guardian asks if 1t wouldn't be appropriate to apply to Hitler the terms which Tim Eealy applied once to an opponent whose word he chose to doubt: "The man is such liar" he said, "that I should hesitate to believe that the exact opposite of what he said was the truth" Magazine Digest has Q funny cartoon showing three German women standing on 0 street one saying: ITO make 0 sandwich you put q butter ration card be- tween two bread ration cards"
 Confrere So Watts of the Herald Tribune drama staff calls the Saro- van play the best of the year tc date-and says that ono or two Broadway columnists are clinging desperately to c passionate insiStencc on their own Ignorance This because we blackballed 1t The next thing you know he will allegt that we are c Communist whom everybody knows we're 0 Na2i.
 However, when So Watts bringl up the subject of ignorance--that'I T our cue to come on and get coi1i. cal Ignorance, eh2 In tho |N. Y. Herald of March i8, 1928, whoi the talkies were about ie rnonth' old, So Watts wrote: "The debaclt of the talking photoplay seems to bt so complete that the cinema may toss the entire Idea aside for a while and continue in It's right dt- rection, that more complete explot- ation of Shadowed silence"
 BalxaC, we think, summed up tho subject of criticism best by saying criticism today Is of no use except to support the critic" .. TO para phrase c remark made by the laSe Sir Beerbohm Tree, the only diff. ference ebtween Watts and Winchell Is that saroyan's play aroused W to soy "Ah" and W. W. to say "Ught"
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