The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-20

the cafe society freaks McCleI- land Barclay, the Illustrator, scilp- tor and artist, has reed Govt commission to study camouflaging in Yurrop .Francia White saw this on a neWsreel marquee: Lon don Bombed Continuous Perform ance."
 Wilson's New Mazdapiece on B'way at 46th is already stopping pedestrian traffic It's another Doug Leigh electrick classic . B. Crisler, the Critic-at-Large is now a critic At Liberty That Sand Street hack inspectors name is Walters, not Waters That must have been quite scene in the Mark Hopkins (Calif) dining room. It seems that Fritz Wiede- mann (the German consult sat there during the Red Cross bene- fit and didn't buy one 25 cent ticket Add Literary Lace: Doug Welch's: The only way he could have gotten 8 faster brushoff would be to slip some pullman porter a nickel tip"
 Haw, haw! Jerk McNazi cer- tainly got no votes in the York vile primaries. He recently visited some old business associates. Seems he doesn't take opposition any too well. Such as when his bodyguards get jailed or knocked for loop. But when he fears he might be jailed. that's something else. Unless some of the hazard can be eliminated from the fuehrer racket. McNutzi is looking for new one Good old Congressman Leland M. Ford of California isn't letting up on his drive to get Fritz (call me Ju- lius) Kuhn deported when he ends his prison term And chuck oodles of orchids please at the Greenwood Lake State Troopers for their wonderful fight against the no-goods there Try Salty Dog"1jigger of gin, seltzer, # lime salt to tasse-and then ask any body what they wanna make of it
 Many night club owners are try ing to persuade each other to close on Monday nights, and save a lot of expenses. That's the one night they all play to the walters except one or two spots. The Plahzah is dropping its dignity and is about to stage a miniature revue in the Persian Room Gels, costumes noise, etc Billy Glason, the emcee, after nine-yeal wait, now has custody of his daugh- ter. 141s years of age. Glason's act is howlEbetter than when he played the Big-Time Frank Murtha, the NEG exec, doesn't like Emma Neugebaur's name SO he. changing it to Murtha .. car make up sentence with the name Murtha: 70, Murtha pin a rose or mel" .. know, Murtha in the lst degree. Help, Police, Murtha!
 CBS ran a coast-to-coast man the-street" interview (with draft age lads in leading cities) and 8 chap in San Francisco put 1t neatly when he remarked: "Id rather give a year of my life-than my life!' F.. MT. Willkie, in his Coffeyvill. speech, threw his weight agains the gossip columns. Said they de, liberately spread untruths at the be- hest of the New Deal He nigh have mentioned one-for an ex ampie-but he didn't :. Golly. Edi tor and Publisher only recently con firmed the talk that 66 per cen of the press was for Willkie ans only 20 per cent for FDR (the other not decideO. Why, begrudge FDF a few columns?
 That reminds me of the leadin, editorial from The Kansas Cit, Journal-Post dated June 28th. I appeared the day following tn, Republican Convention. It say in part: 'The rebellion was il desperation. They did not care They would have accepted an, colorfui personality who was diff ferent from the usual offering. Poll of the delegations revealed con fusion as to MT. Willkie's name Some apparently believed they wer voting for Walter Winchell"
 And inasmuch as MT. Willkie Spok about New Deal stooge columnists let's remind him of the editorial il the Houston (Texas) Post of Jul 4th, which was titled: Column Writers Are Shock Troops of W Willkie's Blitzkrieg" The edi torial, in part: If the Willkie whirl wind campaign was a political blitz krieg, the journalists who writ columns were the shock troops :. The columnists found him natura From Winchell to Raymond Clap per, they ballyhooed his glowing | dynamic personality and his quail ties of leadership" Spread ing untruths, eh?
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