The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-01-09
Walter WiIlcIleII
On BrOddzCuy
Grade Resisrsd Copyright 1870 Daily Mirror Inc

/ Is THE Rhumba Room" next to the
Continental 4. The Mexican m. c..
Is high spot as are the La Playa
Dancers and Marissa Flores. The
latter is lovely singer and a love-
lier locker Buddy DeSylva, the
DuBarry producer, striving to get q
better tan than One guess2
Sudden Thought: Wonder why the
three most prominent members Of
the Torch Club" (Dan Topping,
George Jessel and AL folsom come
to such warm place to get cooled
Off
ONE OF THE CINEMA reviewers
was toasting the excellent dialogue
In mfr. Smith Goes to Washing
ton" L. He pointed out the swell
crack" by Jean Arthur, when a pol
itician asked her to doublecrosS q
friend: "Lis.en," Jean says, when T
first came here my eyes were big
blue question marks-now they're
big green dollar marksl" The re-
viewer liked that a lot, he said.
To which the column certainly
agrees It ran 1t on Dec. 22nd,
1888, as sound in the night at the
Stork Club.
PICTURESQUE REPORTING:
Ben Hayes Of the Ohio State Jour-
nal tossing an orchid at lovely Luz
ellie Linwood, the NBC thrush:
"She looked like a mattress adver-
tisement gently awakened" /.
John Mason Brown reviewing Paul
Vincent CAROLS play, Kindred:
1.-THE ruth Is, he has tried too hard.
In doing so, the only sin he has
committed is reaching for the moon
with a bent spoon" Lionel Sha-
piro In the Montreal Gazette on
Broun: "He had his faults both
great and small. But he had cour-
age and humility and beauty with
in him. And he walked without dig
nity-along the paths of the right
eous" Samuel Grafton discuss
ing the goodnaturedness Of the New
York New Years Eve crowds Gin the
Miami Herald: ut Is the only night
Of the year on which a New Yorker
can look into the face Of another
New Yorker and smile, without hav-
ing the second reach to see If he
still has his wallet"
THIS WEEK starts the middle
years of the Goth Century. Amer
lea looks back at herself, so she can
look ahead for her children In
the last forty years one fact stands
out above all others; the principal
events in our private lives come
from the nations decisions in pub
Lie affairs We've made lots Of
mistakes, but we've learned some
thing We know the extent Of
our national wealth. We know that
the things we own together are
more important than tn things we
own separately We know that
liberty can exist only as the birth
right Of nation-not as the priv
ilege of one man .. We know that
the final choice Is common freedom
or separate slavery It hasn't
all been bed Of roses; but it's been
good enough that some people want
to take 1t away from us They
will be disappointed Because we
Americans have come a long way to-
gether We marched together In
II We went broke together In
the '20s We came back together
in the '30s-and we will stick to-
gether In the 40s.
A RECENT EDITORIAL In the
New York Herald Tribune raped
the President because he dared his
critics to tell him how to balance
the budget The Trib pointed
out that 1t was practically impossi-
BILE to balance 1t. Yet, for the past
few years that gazette has been urg-
ing F. D. r. to balance 1t and rap
ped him because he didn't Fl. You
figure that out, we're busy.
JOHN EDGAR HOOVER, the G.
Menace, was talking about the
lighter side Of crime detection
He told Of a. big murder case, the
name Of which must not be men
toned now, because 1t isn't solved
e. zone of the suspects" said
Hoover, was the cheapest criminal
I ever encountered. In order to es-
tablish an alibi he bought a hat and
belt in a department store. A few
days later he returned the articles
and got his money back!"
ADD BEAUTIFUL SQUELCHES:
Joe E. Lewis at the Versailles the
other night when a woofle-water
whack wouldn't quit being a NUS
ance :. Joe finally intoned: Didn't
I once see you under microscope?"
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