The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-09


 der strap Margo will star tn Oscar 5erlin's next show, Raymond Massey directing. Swell title: Cur tain Going Up"
 The Andrews Sisters will get $5,- 900 per week when they headline at the Paramount theater october 29th .. Hugh Martin and Ralph Blanc, who wrote those ear-carress- ing songs in the big hit, Best Foot Forward" aren't resting on their writeups. They're doing their old vaudeville act with "The { Mar tins" .'. The America Firsters are having their problems. Many packers have destered. The com mittee has shaved expenses, slic- ing the publicity staff to the bone One of the lads accused in that upstate "girl-case" is going whacky-growing a long beard and has his chums worried .. Not to mention his barber Overheard about theme-swiper: "He's half man-half carbon paper"
 Liberty's current issue has the most courageous editorial yet on Lindbergh f. Jack Benny IS the first radio star, we think, to atlk his sponsor into recording the pro- gram = SO he doesn't have to do the repeat show hours later. Lucky stiff Uncle Sam is hep to three foreign femme stars now in the U. s. Despite their anti Nazi attitude" The isolation ists claim to be pro-British, but don't want to do anything to aid them. They claim to be anti-Hitler, but their speeches are more anti Roosevelt They claim they're for unity, although they urge you not to support the nations foreign policy. They claim Hitler's men, ace to us, yet they vote against de- fense. Does that clear up every thing2
 The gal whose lips are used in those lipstick ads is Connie Ford Statesmen tell you that in the attempted Nazi invasion of Sept. IS, 1940-sixty thousand dead ones were washed up on the Kent coast. The reason the British never mentioned 1t is that they didn't want to tip their method, etc. |. There is a lotta difference between whatt he American Eagle symbol means and what the Lonely Eagle says That was quite a scene caused by Mrs. Jane DreXel, widow of John Drexel, ST., at @ tavern in Pinehurst, N. c. Earl oxford, for- merly of the Broadway stage and now stationed at Fort Bragg, was the target. But how he told her off As did the Livingston Riddles and other society pipple.
 Swankiest audience this season greeted Gilbert Miller's Anne of England" att he St. James ~. Most attractive, as usual, being the Will liam Rhinelander Stewards, who have 50 much class Midtown CTS are still gabbing over the way Merle Oberon (who was busy play ing benefits for soldiers in Canada and in the U. s. waSa lnlost locked up at Ellis Island because someone forgot to arrange for her re-entry permit returning from the border! .. The dopes >. They are talking about Q rich British appease (and pal of Ribbentrop) who joined the RAF and supposedly flew to Ger many on a reconnaissance flight and never returned. Official circles in England 1t is said, are trying to hush up well-founded rumors that he did Hess.
 Remember Katherine Emery? She was the lovely one in "Children's Hour" years back Well ', she's now emoting Sundays on "The Sha- dow" The Natl Defense crisis may do away with public enemy the govt hasn't been able to smother the big-scale bootlegger He faces extermination because defense prIoritieS will make 1t difficult to obtain pots, kettles and copper worms. Those used during prohibi- ton are about worn out and must be replaced or the stuff won't be mellow Edith Roark, who opened her own joynt on E. 47th Street last December, has her invest ment back already .. The Eu- gene Field Society has honored Vir- ginia Holton for her writing con- tribution to contemporary literature .. Most unique restaurant is the steak and chop house at 56th and lst. Owned by the same tribe for 70 years-and still lighted by gas Mrs. Proprietor tips the scales at 400-best bouncer in town, too.
 Each and every fine cat in Harlem Is lingering Oh draping out in their most much of hard-hitting togs, donning their up-to-date ky-pieces and collaring a broom down the Midway to Harlem's Renaissance Casino on the early black of Oc- tober 9th. To dig the most mad layout of fine an mellow chicks Eddie Greens gonna drop on them. Now Eddie Is a Square (and actually needs some prayer) when 1t comes to beating up his chops on bid like this to you. So trilly up Harlem Way and dig in on something to gum-beat about Now If that spiel is too panicky for you to latch on, and you're a Lane from Spokane, or Home from Rome, may sim- ply say the date is the early black of October 9th, so be on hand to