The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-09
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Maxine Sullivan sing 'em the way I like to hear 'em, but she shouldn't | wear her hair in bangs just to put over "Confucius Say.
 Hope Hampton's toy Pom Is Q cute thing, but Hope shouldn't feed 1t chocolate as she did the other das in Q restaurant. It gives dogs rickets, 1t really does. IIknow, I was Q dog once myself. '
 Lily Pons, the tra-la-la lulu, makes her own hair shampoo out of six eggs and tablespoonful of rum the lucky eggsl
 Hope Williams has been away too long, but she's happy. She can roll ciggie with the makin's with one hand-faSter than Gene Autry.
 Alice Marble, as everybody knows, has the shapeliest zorinas, and iL is all right with most of us If Alice doesn't care a hang about skirts above-the-knees being out of date. A pretty leg is like melody.
 Bonnie Baker, the "Oh, Johnny, Oh," lass, is a delight to the ear, but we'd like to meet the lug who advised her to tell interviewcrs that her favorite pastime was knitting {. . Oh, Bonnie, OHlil
 Sam Goldwyn may murder your English, but the laughs not on him. When asked by mag for list of 50 best films of all time, ne said . "Eem- possible. I don't think I made that manyW
 Charlie Butterworth is most folks idea of @ nice feller, and all that sortathing. But If he doesn't start buying his own cigarettes for a change, he will be carrying a good thing too distant.
 Joe Louis, the champ, Is humbly grateful to his trainer, Jack Black burn, but that's heluva reason for them to go around wearing iden- tical green herringbone suits. They look like Q comedy act.
 Elsa Maxwell loves Us (sald so in Look Mag, SO thereD but we wish she wouldn't wear those little flower pot hats. Makes Elsa look like Lew Lehr doing an imitation of Julian Eltinge over ct the Diamond Horseshoel
 Boris Karloff used to scare the daylights outta me and my whole family, but not since we learned that his real name is PrattI
 Theresa Helburn was asked by the World-Telly her opinion of Robert F. Sherwood's new hit, "There Shall Be No Night" and she said it was 6 swell show. She's merely the shows producerl
 Paul Douglas IS one of the melodi- ouS radio announcers, and we hate to blemish his honeymoon. But in the current nowsreel narration of the Kentucky Derby the gent he called Gerard SWope iS Herbert Bay ard Swope. It's things like this that make some people think there arc better ouncers-which there are. Thank goodness
 Airline Judge is Q cutie-pie Gas the saying goes) but she is quickly acquiring the reputation of being the No. 1 front page bore--with her Tommy Manville.E Elaine Barrie an- tics.
 William Saroyan, the playwright who was honored with the Critics Circle award and the Pulitzer Prize for "the best play of the year." Is respected more than ever by this column for carrying out c threat. A few days before the Pulitzers deco. rated him, he stated publicly that he wouldn't accept their prize f he won 1t But we can't resist feeling that the Pulitzer Prize Com mittee made up their minds after reading his insult. They knew he wouldn't accept it, so they pushed 1t in his face Then they pro. ceeded to embarrass the Critics by agreeing with their choice, for once Evidently the Pulitzers re- membered that when the Critics or- ganized it Was for the announced reason: "The Pulitzer Committee does not know Q good play when it sees one"