The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-29

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 Hedy is here with her scenar- ist-husband, Gene Markey, for diversion. They have missed few of the costly and fashionable SUD- per clubs, timing their arrival at each to train-schedule punctual- ity.
 Only the other night, your gall lant correspondent gave up his own table at the Algonquin, so Hedy could sit down. Mrs. Mark ey's husband muscled in, of course, and besides, was leav- ing, anyway.
 CARED STILL
 DOGES SPOTLIGHT
 The inscrutable Garbo prowls about the town with less fanfare and fandango than does Hedy, She gives no forewarming to the ater attaches and headwaiters.
 The other night, she was trap ped in a seat at 'DuBarry Was a Lady" and when discovered, quietly sneaked out.
 She lunches at Rumplemayer's, opposite Central Park, and shops at the Fifth Avenue department stores without detection. Probably because she now omits the veils and dark spectacleS.
 And when she attends the sup per clubs, more furtively than Hedy, she is mighty careful, but about other public hazards. The other night, she wandered into a club with an unidentified escort and was assigned to table.
 She remained at the threshold while her friend approached the location and lighted match after match over the tablecloth. Then he signalled for the glamor belle of Stockholm to sit down.
 When a brave waiter later asked what the match-igniting ritual was all about, he merely explained, Just to make sure there aren't any draftsl" LAMOUR
 GLAMOUR
 The Lamour gal, I am privi- legged to report from east of the Hudson, is her same, exotic self, sporting attire that is more than faintly reminiscent of her sarong.
 She gets around without bally- hoo, but she always did when she visited in Gotham. Chances were that a fan and admirer could al- ways find, near midnight, his South Seas goddess sitting at a Stork Club table.
 Hollywood's titan, zanuck, was here on an executive mission. It was to be present at the premier of his new cinematic smash, Grapes of Wrath" He did not make the trip across the country in vain. Every local cinema critic pronounced Grapes of Wrath" a masterpiece in print.
 You could have found the Hol- lywood set all over the reserva- tion lately. Edward G. Robinson, the art connoissgur, prowled the galleries in quest of painted trea- sure and spent good part of his income on canvasses that pleased his eye.
 Jimmy Cagney escaped a while to his farm at Martha's Vineyard which looks out over the sea.
 Pat O'Brien gave New York the once-over, not neglecting the night side in his rounds.
 SHEARER GOES
 PLAY SHOPPING
 And Norma Shearer, who likes to dance, went stepping in number of decorative salons. But she had come here on an artistic mission. That was to have a look at Sidney Kingsley's play, "The "O11o we MdhC, WllAClI WdS JuSG purchased for her, as her next film starring vehicle. She pro- nounced herself thrilled" soon after leaving the theater.
 There hasn't been much corn- motion. Indeed, there's been hard ly any, except for that staged mob demonstration at the station when the Messers. Cagney and O'Brien alighted from their train. The press agents had taken precau- tions days in advace to see that fair-sized throng would be on hand.
 But on the whole, New Workers take their movie stars-in-person pretty casually these days.