The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-09
NEW YORK HEARTBEAT

NEW TURK HEARTBEAT
 The Big Parade: Lucy Monroe, the Star Spangled Sopranner, hlgh- browsing through Brentano's Vth Avenue =. Carol Bruce, singing for 25 minutes ad lib, with Larry Adler'B harmonica accompanying- just for thell of fiat spivy's !. .. Katharine Cornell muttering be- cause her stocking popped e run :. Boris Karloff. the Answer to Q Maiden's Scream, at Jack Demp- sey's on buttermilk bender Allyn Joslyn, of Arsenic and old Lace,"a corking make-believer :. Genevieve Tobin of the feelms, with her wealthy Santa Barbara (Cal) groom, waving to Loretta Young The Irving Berlins in the swank spots, giving them some class .. |. Dr. Tsune Chi Yu, the Chinese Con. General in The House of Chan, amused at the lass at the next table trying to manipulate chop -sticks !. Supreme Court Justice Pecora, who hasn't been to Florida or out of New York-with the heaviest tan in the Stork "cub" Mrs. E. P. A. and Clifton Fadiman, the Information Pleaser, trying to talk Q columnist int oguesting on that program-at no wagesl
 saIlies in Our Alley: Kettle Cat tell, the reporter, records the one about Charles MacArthur and an- other scribbler who worked with him on the same gazette. They were at the funeral of @ pal (and almost as stiff as he was) when the rnin- ister intoned: 'The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away" .. To which Macarthur yelled out: well, wot could be fairer'n that2" : The present feuding of the drama critics has started rumors that the Prize Play, instead of getting the customary plaque, will be awarded the Gene Tunney Belt NEG wouldn't permit commentator John B. Kennedy to use this on the net- work: "rhe only thing left for Mus solini to do is go over Niagara Falls in Q balcony"
 New York Novelette,: She was in the Ziegfeld F'ollies when Olive Thomas was the loveliest show girl in 1t, and when. will Rogers and Sybil Carmen did the rope act. She danced at Murray's on And Street and at Rector's with Valentino, and once she had the Bal Tabarin above the Winter Garden for the ShubertS :. Some of Broadway's vets prob- ably remember when in Universal Films she was a lovely under the name of Mayre Hall .. And when she deserted show business and its tinsel to become Countess Meir de Mandil "No more show shop talk for mel" vowed the show girl who became @ noblewoman. "If you ever see me in theater again 1t will be because have a seat down front!" We saw the Countess again the other sundown in the lobby of the St. Moritz Hotel-im- iaaculately attired and regal in manner But she is still asso- ciated with the theater She is behind Q counter--as Q ticket speculator.
 Memos of . Midnighter: Virginia Field of Panama Hattie" and cliff Ferrer of that troupe admire each others scenes Richard Irving and Janet Lavis, the Pal Joey" newlyweds spent their honeymoon completely surrounded by practical jokes. At 2 Q. m. pop firemen burst in wSth disconnected hose! |. Paul Martin is telling time by dan- cer Jane Statlers new diamond wrist-watch, the gift of 6 Rio ad- inirer Peter Arno is threaten ing to desert New York for good and Florida La Conga, which was supposed to last three weeks, will be 3 years young on the 26th An Athens, Ohio movie the- ater's lights: Adam Had Four Sons and Bob Hope" .. The pickering over the financial settlement Is re- tarding the Ali Vanderbilts' di- vorce.
 Manhattan Murals: The 14th Street bookshop which prominently displays Earl Providers book: This Way Out" The impoverished looking gink on 42nd Street who peddles "ten-dollar bills" three for dime The middle-aged swish who carries woman's large purse, and stops in the street every few minutes to powder his nose |. The sign in the Tenth Avenue mis- sion house lobby: People Who Don't Write Home Don't Rate Onel" ... The midget usher ct the Roxy who stands in the center of the huge lobby with spotlight on him. Looks like 8 fugitive from totem pole .. The 50th and 9th Ave. restaurant which invites epitaphs about Hitler for the window display ... The 9th Ave. place which pla- cards: We trust our food pleases you. Otherwise we don't trust"
 Broadway Small-Talk: H. V. Kal- tenborn Saturday eve'g described him as "von Ribbentripe." When we used 1t the air officials gave us Q spanking .. Beverly Barbisch Leslie, the model, is wearing dark specs for the usual reason. There's a Society for the Prevention of Dis- paraging Remarks About Brooklyn with headquarters in Manhattan. Press agent Dick Maney's neat stable of accounts: watch on the Rhine," Corn Is Green, Arsenic