The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-19
MAN ABOUT TOWN

MAN ADVgA AVWN
yohn Barrymore and Dolores Cos
teiIo, his ex. viii battle 1t out again
this week IN the N. Y. courts. Over
considerable arrears" for their tots
support The N. Y. Times
hushed the sabotaging in its press
room last week. Acid thrown over
some presses Ruth Chatterton
and Barry Thomson, the actor, are
breatnless Nancy Kelly is ex-
pected to become Mrs. Edmund o.
Brien in June Louise Groody
has said nope to DR.. II. w. Corya,
recently divorced The Henry
Gives have parted The Duke
Of Devonshire might be the next
Governor-Gen1 Of Canada !.
Exactly q year ago was when the
Jimmy Roosevelt story Including
the Mayo nurse angle) ran here !. :.
Ia Bankhead and Margaret Irving,
actresses, have turned over their
identical threats to p. o. agents in
Philly Henry Gassaway Davis,
who married two Vanderbilts (Grace
and Consuelo, the latter is Renotic-
ing him now may wed another VAN
derbilt when Helen Warner frees g.
Vanderbilt, Jr., shortly -. /. The DIFF
ference between Taft and Dewey (to
hear the political gag-men tell it,
is that Bob wants to marry the girl,
whereas Tom is just on the makel
Gregory (St. NORTH Hotel boss)
Taylor and his Grecian bride are
leaving for Greece soon to collect a
five-millicn -Smacker inheritance :.
Gertrude Hess, Girl Friday to Ken
meth (Repub. Natl Comm Simpson,
will soon wed Morrison H. Parker,
the Wall Strasser Mrs. Jose
Ferrer (Uta Hagenl is leaving ''Key
Largo" Tells pals she doesn't know
whether to have an heir or retire.
-. Billy Rose and the Railroad
Pageant operators at the Fair are
threatening to quit If the Fair goes
through with the Patriotic Pageant
opposition Joe DiMaggio, 9th
on the Best Dressed Men list, wears
fifty-cent ready-made bow ties
with rubber snappers!
Mrs. Confucius say her old man
talk too damb much! From
page 8 Of The Billboard: "Grace
Jones left for Chicago to be mar
ried to Vocco and Conn" ;. Huh?
Robert Clark, manager of One
Fifth Avenue Bar" and Georgia
Carroll, the model, are devoted :.
Arthur Byron, Jr., is too sad for
such a nice guy Starting Tues
day. Equity will crack down on the
booking agents LuciuS Beebe,
who Is Ill, checked out of a swanky
hospital because he didn't like their
food. He switched to Leroy next
door to the Colony restaurant from
where his meals are sent up daily.
Eth Norman is forgetting with
Donald Graham.
-, The buzz is that Dewey's office
will go after the Hatcheck Girls
Union Despite the rumors there
is no political significance to FDR's
cruise The antitrust Div. of
tbs Dept. OF Justice will soon crack
down on the hooch industry because
Of unlawful contracts" Bobbe
Sullivan, hat check girl at the Stork
Club, ana Albert vutrico, head bar
tender there, will be married short
" despite family objections from
both sides The MY Little Chick
adee" flicker, which is a satire on
..'t.Destry," is tripling the biz. of the
M. Dietrich pic Editor and
Publisher is rumored hiring all the
staff for "a new Metropolitan daily"
not "P. NJ" Could it be the new"
Eagle which is plotting an editorial
h0use-cleaning? The Newspa-
pr Guild win holler about Frank
.Gannett's Rochester paper firing a
"kin" Of Lincoln.
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I'm Hollywood they say Lana Tur-
nor, aloy1ofl with Artia Shaw after