The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-17
NEW YORK HEARTBEAT

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Faces About Town: Bonnie Baker,
the JitterbuR Lily Pons :. Hank
banning of the N. Y. Giants and
his bride. q visual home-run {. E.
Lupe Velez putting the heat on q
6ardi's hot tamale .. Betty Cradle
and Milton Berle in Lindy's- Beauty
and the Boast David Cort,
foreign editor Of Life mag, at the
5Oth and B'way newsstand getting
the latest news Of the war from a
Daily Mirror &. Aida Alvarez, Irene
DUNES double, who dances at La
Conga Burgess Meredith and
Franchot Tone In Club 10 without
girls. So clown Jack White tells
waiter Willie Grogan to put on a
dress and sit with them . Peggy
Hopkins Joyce In Village Vanguard,
highly amused ut Clark's Calypso
and-sos stnging-"from q logical
point Of view, always marry q wo-
man uglier than you" Mrs
Harold Dahl, whose &viator-groom
was Jailed by Franco, doing pre-
war Spanish dance In Club Gaucho
Moss Hart in The Stork, de-
nouncing the wild rumors that
Woollcott Is o flop In Dinner
Hes actually Q Sensattonl"
eaIlies I'm Our Alley: They would
have you believe that Jake Shu-
bert, the show producer, Is the
Sam Goldwyn Of the East The
legend Is that Jake was travelling
through Kansas on his return from
Hollywood for many hours the
scene was nothing but acres Of
wheat fields E. Look" he sighed,
"at all that wasteland!" Max
Mefoofsky came home early one af-
ternoon and found his wife kissing
the iceman Mrs. Mefoofsky
looked at her groom calmly and
said: Look whooz here! Meester
Beck Mout! Tomorrer averbody in
da neighborhood will be knowing
about diss!"
Memos of o Midnighter: George
Jean Nathan considers Sen Lee one
Of the best exotic Chinese dancers
Of them all. Recently at Leon g.
Eddie's Ben Grauer, whose
right wings in sling horseback
trouble) will be Mrs. Roosevelt's NBC
spieler Address Unknown"
will be dramatized tonight at 9 via
WIN with John Gunther presiding
Mady Christians has the femme lead
Personal ha-ha at Bill Corum
and Glen Mccarthy: Fenelon, which
we picked as the Derby dark horse
many months ago (and which was
widely belittled) won at Jamaica
Monday beating Corum's Derby
selection, Carrier Pigeon A
ticket specs office has a serious
shortage and is now being probed
Correction for Comm. Valen-
tine: Our error, beg pod'n. That
man shot dead by detectives in Har-
lem the other ngiht had been frisked
first and was killed while escap-
ing.
New York Novelette,: IN the past
ten years one Of the screens best
known leading men has spent a
mint Of money on private deteOtives
To find q benefactress, who
bcGriended him when he was a
dewn and out actor. He would have
starved without her help, and as
soon AZ he got into the big coin
he resolved to pay her back
But the Sleuths have never been
able to trace her-though they've
established that she Is living -.
The lass In question Is what is
known as q Lady Of Easy Virture
which makes the search more diff
ficult Since she knows, OF
course, that he is a success, the
actor has hoped she'd write, but ap-
parently she's too proud to Go that
which makes him want to help her
more II she sees this-his last
initial is "B".
New Yorchids: Tommy Dorsey's
victorecording Of polka Dots and
Moonbeams" lyric is poetry .
The DeMarcos at Ell Morocco
The trafficop at 50th and 5th who
gives tickets to motorists who beat
the red lamps Woody Herman's
Decca-reccad Of "Blues On Parade
Jack Benny's "Buck Benny
Rides Again"-the picture that puts
Rochester on the map :. Ralph
Edwards radio game, Truth On
Consequences"-full Of chuckles :.
Warren Irwin, NBC's man In Stock
holm Scallions to the firm