The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-07
CELEBRITY

The women turned and whispers
 filled the air:
 The anxious walters hovered into
 sight
 To minister your wants with ten. ,n Ger care;
 vThe girl you had was quite Q pretty
 trick
 And most enchanted with the
 part she played, It isn't very hard to have your pick, When you have wow'd the mob
 and made the grade. We'll, drink 1t in--it's nectar while
 it lasts
 And do your best to keep 6 level
 head;
 For Broadway is . play with many
 caAts--
 You're big tonight. Tomorrow you
 efe deadl
 You ask me, kid, how should l
 chance to know? Why, I was In your shoes--a year
 aRol
 THE MELANCHOLY DON. old, But Good: Mrs. Jimmy Young, the newspaper gal, passes along the one about the American woman in London for her first air raid. She was 70 scared she jumped into 6 nearby garbage can. Two Chinese came along and saw her.
 Goodness mel" said the first. "What strange people are these occidentals. Tn China we wouldn't think of throwing away c pretty woman like that for ct least an- other ten yearsI"
 Dot 10 Dot Way. Eddie Cantor's favorite a1ecdote about Dot Par ker deals with the time she was bored stiff at someone's country place for the week end. She sent R pal this telegram:
 Please rush loaf of bread and enclose saw and filel"
 Tch, Tch: Two girls, Il and lS, were picked up here. They said they ran away from New Haven because the town bored us,"
 Poor kids. Too bad for tic, tao toe and too blase for Yale men. In Other Words: The World Tolly interviewer described Franz Werfel, the German refugee au- thor, this way: Here is small, stoutish man with . face broad and gemutlich as a kartoffel phannkuchen.
 That's nice thing to portisen about a stan portis, and how'd you rillarah if he prampsoncd the same sedkuppit?
 Quletso, Quletso; Two vaude- williams were standing in front of the Palace Theater reminiScing about the good old days. "Too bad." sighed the first nostalgi- cally. "Just as l was about to be booked into this house, they rang the curtain down on vaudeville and gone are all my hopes and dreams--Yny toughest break"
 TO which the other replied inc differently: "So what2 What did you miss-a couple of bows?"
 Observation: Evalyn Walsh Me- Leans Hope Diamond is @ pretty bauble around her own neck. But it's gonna be an awful weight on Senator Bob Reynolds, when he comes up for reelection in the Moth china hillbilly precincts.
 Our Ho Hum Dept; The ex- colonel is pretty gloomy about the America of the future. Said Lindbergh: "How much longer free speech will Do possible in the United states, I do not know"
 It will Dc c sad day, oil right, when a man can't go on the radio and freely yell his sour gripes.
 Newspaperman Stuff: Frederick Haslitt Brennan, author of "The Wookey," wrote in the Times: T was newspapermen for years, and have never been able to sell A newspaper story. Knew too much about it. The Idea that a writer must be an expert on any subject he uses as backbone for a story or play, is Q cliche that will never, apparently, die"
 What keeps the cliche alive is the fact that it's the truth. Being experts about newspapers didn't stop Hecht and MacArthur from writing Q hit called "The Front Page" And what about Louis Weitzerkorn's "Fiye Star Final? The only thing MT. Brennan proves Is = he has never been able to sell a newspaper story.
 MerClless Fat: When you get right down to It." Gene Autry is quoted in "You," tits not the color of a woman's hair or com plexion that counts"
 That's when 1t does count, pard When you get right down to 1t.
 oh, marriage they say, is trap
 and snare,
 And perhaps what they say is
 true
 But I can't help noticing people
 who say
 Those things-aren't married to NARY CAROLYN DAVIES. - .Isss...sEE s.ss=ss