The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-25


 New Workers Are Talking About: The $30,0O0 sable coat stolen from a patron in swank midtown joynt. The fourth theft thereI The Museum of Modern Art being stench- bombed Mabel Boll's boy, Bob Scott, and the Club Cuba brawl The rulmor that Lucky Lu- ciano was stilettoed in duel at Dannemora Prison Sir Cedric Hardwicke, estranged from his lady, and Joan Alexander Priscilla Lane and Jim Reynolds, last, to leave Chez Stalk every ante Ineri- dian The Gene Raymonds c. MacDonald) .. Jinx Falkenberger's s frock practically falling off while dancing at the Stork. Couldn't have happened to shapelier Venus |. Robin Raymond's bethrotal to Sir Ronald Herlofsen (millionaire coffee king of Shanghai kin to Count de Tristan, whose kidnapped baby was recovered on the coast :. The en- ragged mother who will soon tell a judge in Los Angeles that she wants $150000 from a married movie Ro- meo-to support her seventeen-year- old daughters image.
 The Basil Rathbone fable (about joining the RAFD which was released without his permish and he is fit to be straitjacketed .. Jim Moore's wager that Gabby Hartnett is com- ing to New York" The bomb scare at a midtown newspaper bldg. Wed. eve. Scores of cops searched every nook, desk and person in the skyscraper . The Prince of Ne pals bar bill at the Madison last week. A trifling $2,400 . And the harem he is invariably seen with at the joyntS nine glamor- ous gels from the leg shows :. Dr. Manfred Zapp, who told the Dies Committee he was so broke he didn't have enough dough to buy stamps to mail out his Nazi propa- ganda-buying champagne for punches of blondes at the swanky spots Vic Mature, coast-bound, who has a new girl. Her name is Phyllis Brooks, Betty Grable, Adele Jergens. Continued next week.
 Judy Ford, the Louisiana Pur- chase" hunk of honey, who has been itemed with Bruce Cabot (not here) for weeks. She's never met him. Dolores, the distaff section of the dance team Pancho & Dolores, who eloped with her lawyer boy friend The second fire in two years up at critic Brooks Atkinson s farm near Albany |. Fly Neigher's new comic strip, The Private Life of Larry Scott" - about kid who's just been drafted !. . That Chicago woman thinted in the Dies White Paper as being the Chicago Nazis' support) is lastinitiapd IS" |. The persistent talk that LaGuardia may enter the Cabinet sooner than expected - maybe next wek, when Stimson's resig is again rumored.
 ,. The most serious drama in critic Dick Watts life - actress Gene Tiexney. He dressed formally for the first time to take her to the Helen Hayes premiere.
 Fritz Kuhn's old girl tnot the blonde divorcee from MiamD who is so broke she is dwelling with her former maid .-. T. Fizdale,S new account = the inauguration of Mexi- can President Camancho next month The narcoticops, who will distinguish themselves in a big crackdown. So big is the story they've hired pres sagent (relations man, if you please) to handle the front page fireworks. His name is Richard Stevenson !. The George Olivers of the polo playing set. who are big-zagging The fact that the BMI will close a deal this week with one of ASCAP'S big eest publishers - the first real vic- tory for any side in radios new est conflict Allan Jones grave illness, and Phil Regan's call to the Coast to take his place before the camera Jimmy Dorsey's crack: The only thing Il Duce's been able to lick is Hitler's boots!"