The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-26

big-time, one of the boys, an ace arranger and good musician, was stricken and sent to an upstate place He still gets his weekly wage as well as his share of the bands profits The orchestra is Woody Herman;s, now at the New Yorker And when you hear them play ''Whatcha Know, Joe2" on their broadcasts-that's their way of saluting Joe Bishop up at Saranac Lake.
 Broadway SmaII-Talk: Betty Grayson, the radio player, has two fellers. Clifford OdetS and Frank Gallop The Paul Webbs, he's ESquire's talented cartooniSt, are papooeing Les Robbins of Ar- tie Shaw's band and Evelyn Albright of "Hellza" were stitched a week ago Betsy Cushing Roosevelt's legal freedom is due March 7th Her most persistent adnirer is chap named Fenwick also near the divorce depot Stage mag dug up one crack that justified its four months of living. It re- vived Shaw's rap att he opening nighters: "They are not drama lov- CTS, not theatergoers, nor, properly speaking, do they add anything to the proceedings. They are simply first nighters."
 Midtown Vignette: A few weeks ago, when she was warbling at the Hurricane on Broadway she was "just one of the acts" When her contract there was to expire in mid February she decided she was getting nowhere fast-and that show business was for "the lucky" {. She wore that defeated look and arranged to return to her home in Washington, D. c. ... Trunks packed and her song arrangements prom ised to girl pal newcomer-she wondered if the friends back home would care one way or another about her failure on Broadway But she never got to Washington /. :. A stranger in baggy pants (who looked like a Fairy Prince to herb paged her to fly to Columbia's stu- dio in Hollywood for 8 leading as- signment opposite Rudy Vallee in a film named: Show Business" {. Her name is Joan Merrill.
 New Yorchids: Ray Nob1e's Co., 1umbia re-make of Sleepy Time GaT' Attorney-C General Robert H. Jackson's new book: '~The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy" Preston Sturges' Paramounter "The Lady Eve"-funnier than 'The Original Sin" Joe Reichman's disc of: q Hear a Rhapsody" |. |. The 4 Inkspots' Deccareccad of Please Take a Letter, Miss Brown" (Arnos n Andy with music) |. !. James Streets short story in Lib erty: They Know How" Betty Bruce,s spellbinding heel-and-toe- ing, and the remarkable acrobatics of the Whitsons (Royal Palm)-so amazing you can't believe your orbs.
 Manhattan MelOdrama: There is a poem called "The Dying Copy reader" well known in the news paper shops where a copy reader is the editor who writes the head lines :. David Karsner, who died Friday; was a copyreader to the end When co-workers from the Post came to the hospital to cheer him up, he wasn't kidded. He knew the end was near He also knew, because he was an author of note, he would rate a lengthy obituary After saying good- bye, the copyreader called from his death bed: "If I don't see you again the name David Karsner is an exact fit for a number four head" You readers didn't know it, but the Post put a number four on his obit.
 Sounds in the Night: In the Stork: "You can't insult him. He'd rather be despised than ignored" At Fl Chico: "He writes mod- ern literature; neurotic, exotic, erotic and tommyrotic' At Dwyer,s Sawdust Trail: He's either had haircut or got his head caught in a pencil-sharpener" In Club Is: People who throw stones shouldn't have glass jaws" .. At Sunny Isles: ''The dice are colder than a depot stove" Tn Tony's Love is when two people with their eyes shut can see heaven" :. In the Pago-Pago Room: Love is what you shout to the world and whisper to one" At Lindy's: "All I can say is that his word is as good as his band" At Endure: "A better cure for incomnia than counting sheep is counting bores" In the Copacabana: T think she's the one they are trying to mate with Gargantua."
 The Crack of the Week: Joe E. Lewis sums up the European war as ."The R. A. F. versus the R. A. T."