The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-15
NEW YoKKERs ARE TALKING

NEW WORKERS ARE TALKING
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 "HelIzapOppin's' 3rd Year and Srd Million The quick demise of Sinjin Ervine's flop at The Booth Theater after three perfs The unpretentious Panama hat which J. F. Morgan wore all summer. It costs $450 Dorothy Lamour's gigan- tic star ruby ring-and the tele- grams she gets from Greg Bautzer, the Hollywood attorney ,snearly every 20 minutes The washing-up (but clean) of the Billy Livingstone Marianne Travers matter after so many tears . :. First editions of John Steinbeck's Grapes worth $7 . .. The Smithfield Hams Barbara Bannister sends 10 fellows she likes. Her nom de Broadway has his edi- tors jittery = for fear he's getting ready to do a Dorothy Thompson" The uh-honey of the famed New Yorker, who is peddling the last of the jewels he gave her-so desperate is she for coin She stuck through his downfall which is why Men About Town tip their hats. They know many women who'll share everything a man has-except his disgrace.
 Frank Nugent, who gave up his big job as N Y. Times movie oracle to work for Daryl zanuck, whose films. he banned hardest. Now Nu- gents en route back here sadder and wiser Gloria Bakers ex- pected visit alone for two months while groom Bob Topping stays in Hawaii fishing :. :. Alice Marbles lecture tour next month The Spanish temperament blowing up at the Rainbow Room rehearsals of the new show Estupido! Ruth Foran's reported elopement with a millionaire and her amusing tele- gram: Please give me some sort of correction so my friends will know I am not married but alive!" The glee of most members of the Bund over the indictment of Wilbur V. Keegan, the Bund att. torney. He's the opporttunist, who claims the line: "The Tanks Are Not Coming" which he heard in a Sunday night editorial.
 The Harvard man named James Copp. 3rd, and His Things-as he describes his rare night club act at Cafe Society-and his ditty about Hattie, the Iceberg, who gets tired of Greenland, goes to the Riviera, where she meets and loves Joe, the Volcano. Result, hotel with hot and cold running water The appeal of the girls from the Rodeo in their cow-gal clothes :. The way Jim Moore, the sage of West 46th street, kept sending telegrams to Junior Thompson, the Cincy pitcher, imporing him to walk Hank Green berg for fear Hank would hit a hoEner <. And how Thompson ig- noFed the warning and Hank A. baggered him E. The people who go around banning that 53rd Street night club owner, but don't men, tion the money they owe him for tabs" and touches The sit- cheeayshun between Al Jolson and Leo Mortimer. All is fair in love ana Broadway.
 New Workers are talking about Editor & Publisher which asked Upton Sinclair for piece on Free dom of the Press-and then wouldn't print it The complaints from Rikers Island prisoners that Joe McWilliams and James Wheeler Hill are allowed to stay up two hours longer than the other inmates-be- cause they do floor mopping So wot? Better in hoosegows than on Yorkville corners httering the streets The way the Redwood Murder Investigation has died-the cops as- signed to it are now performing routine duties .. Stripretty Gladys Fox at the Gaiety Girlesk James Mckinley Bryant's Cafe Society"