The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-12

had broken with her long-burning flame Despite the fact that she was the one to dump him, she kept pestering him to return her photo When he ignored her letters she threatened to complain to his new girl So he went to a Broadway photographer, borrowed @ hundred pictures of lovely chorus girls and sent them to his ex with this squelch: "Pick yours out, I've forgotten what you look like"
 Broadway Small Talk: Mickey Rooney's current distraction is Tina Thayer. She's Barbara Stanwyck's kid sister in Meet John Doe" (. Laurence Olivier has passed his pre- linn tests for the RAF Charles Vidor and Karen Morley are re- ported (by their pals) as telling 1t to a judge Bill Cunningham Is switching Boston editors at a neat wage tilt Sailors mustn't bring their tax-free ciggies ashore I. Drutman's "expose" on publicity tita11s appears in Town & Country t.. Thaddeus Brown, son of the late Ohio Senator, and Mimi Berry( of Hattie" are hottie Van Heflin's illness sent him to Arizona It's a blessed he- vent for the Reggie Callows Peggy Watts, ex-ziegfeld beauty |. John Hubbard's terse description of conceited Hollywood ham: He's the kind of guy who makes a project out of combing hsi hair" Bobby Byrne's of @ matinee idol: A guy whose wife isn't half as happy as his fans think she should be.
 New Yorchids: Looks page 10, the issue on the stands the 11th |. John Kirby's Double Talk" Colum- bia disc Mary Barton's danc- ing at Jimmy Kelly's "Girl Alone" an NEG click Les Browns recording of "The Anvil Chorus" for Okeh. Rhythmic fire . The advance talk on the flick CT, Adam Had Four Sons" :. Aside to movie press departments and others: Don't use this column or any quote in it to exploit any, thing without first getting permis- sion. The numerous abuses and misquotes have cost suckers money No quotes without permission unless you want to invite scal- lions.
 Times Square Ticker. Tape: Mark Warnow is ready to drop $10,000 on his Carnegie Hall concert in May to prove his pet theory--that the most important purely American composers are those influenced by the jazz idioln .. Something like $35 ,000, plus encyclopedias, airplanes, free trips, etc., is given away weekly on the air. There's also some en- tertainment '. The stories of Adam and Eve, Noah and other Biblical legends are now recorded by the Asch Studios of W. 46th St. Called: "In the Beginning" and going big with the children |. Something unusual in Broadway closings-Benny Leonard's packers paid off in full to everybody owed ... Is that feud or war going on between Golfers and the Sat- evepost? One week the latter says the Norwegians are playing ball with the Nazis, and then Golfers says just the opposite Ad- vance tip from the Int1 Beauty show:. Milady's hair will be shorter When Perc Westmore's wife, Gloria Dickson, gets her final decree in June, Director Ralph Murphy wil lbe her next groom, chums insist.
 Sounds in the Night: Tn the Sunny Isles dice-room: You gotta speculate to accumulatep |. Tn the 48th Street Tavern: He's the kind of 8 guy who still has the first dollar he ever owed" In Armando's: She's one of those zoociety singers-you know, e sour prano" In the Pago-Pago Room: Gan she drink? They call her Mighty Liquor Rose" .. At Ruby Foo's Den: "She's so dumb she thinks the Mason-DiXon Line is a proposition with a drawl" :. At Reuben's: "She's just turned eighteen and is still dizzy from 1t" Tn La Conga: "Her eyes flashed like lightning looking for @ place to strike In Endure: q could have & helluva time with an angel like you" In the Stork: "You can tell she's intelli- gent by the type of spoons she swipes" At the Royal Palm Club: "The rumors about her are as thick as she is" At Spivy's: "She gave him a look that needed shoveling."
 Chinatown Charlie says e success is a guy who married the bright one with thick glasses-and can now afford the dumb one with trim ankles.