The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-10
THE WAX TO PART

THE WAX TO FART ThIs is the way to part. With a S small laugh f
 T1aat catches in the throat; with
 @ Q strong shake | CT taght-clasped hands; and, if Q heart should break VI must be shared between us, half
 and half.
 But let us break in music and iii song;
 Let star-flowers scatter from the fNrf shattered heart And proudly, proudly bear you F when you part. LeSt any fail to read your riddle wrong.
 This ss the way to part; Oh, not
 with tears
 And not with vain entreaties to o o friend,
 A path we cannot follow by our years,
 A path of beauty and night-frag-
 rant flowers, N tAkAy pAtkl VI QuVy HkkQ QAIik AOuTS,
 Should be most lovely ct its secret .,e. -1DELLA PRuNELL. The Retort Wonderful: Sidney Blackmer, the actor, delivered a radio speech over e Hollywood sta- ton the other night, in which he answered Lindbergh's arguments. Among the calls that followed the broadcast was one from Q fellow who violently denounced Blackmer.
 "You are no American" the caller screamed, "Hny family has been here for five generationsi" ''nay family met them when they arrived - and ct the time they complained about the type of in- migrants who were coming overl"
 AlM't It So? Olin Miller says that having to live in the same world with Hitler takes Q lot of the sting out of death.
 Observation: Reporters and news casters are working in handcuffs these days with 6 totalitarian cen. soRshlp clamped down on three fronts - Russia, Germany and Montana.
 Cartoon Material: A Na2i spy Ovearhears a conversation between two of Secretary Hull's aides and gleefully sends the punchline to his decoding office, to wit:
 Awful news, but awful just drew the Washington Senators in the pl0 pocll"
 Sounds Like Him: After land- ing the role. of stooge to Bob Hope in Louisiana Purchase, Maxie Rosenbloom started shopping for . new house. One he looked at was John Barrymore's in Bev- eTly Hills. While rambling through the boudoir, Maxie said:
 ,"What stories these old walls would tell = if would only listenl" .,YOu've Met Elm: It's Paul Hart maSlss tale of the thfee efficiency experts who were waiting impatient iy in front of Q hotal for Q friend 50 they could make Q foursome goang through the revolving door.
 Magic Carpet: Ralph Ingersoll the publisher, now winging his way to Russia (to interview Stalin) was complaining to Steve Early at the White House the other day. "gteve," Ingersoll intoned, "those Russians are holding my passport"
 "They are2" responded Steve. @And they want Us to give them q hundred million dollars worth of machinery"
 Steve then called the State De- partment, and, before lngersoll knew 1t, he was on his way to Mos COW.
 Eyebrow Liter: MT. Ingersoll was saying before he left that he had Just learned the hardest thing to find in Russia was Q Communist. "fEow's that?" he was asked.
 "4ecause," he explained, "the population of Russia is l60,000,000 and there are only 6.0oo,o00 party members"
 Bait: incidentally, Ingersoll, whose Russian is limited to one word, Ida" (yes), doesn't intend to have any trouble with the Bolshevik women there.
 He 6 taking along dozen pair of Nylon stockings, which he figures will be all the language hen need with the unfair sex.
 NewspapermAn Stuff: When Dmitri shostakovitch joined the Soviet army, an editor tried to find out what he had composed. TxN started A reporter phoninQ