The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-11

IlSBdy VGTS1Okl Ol lLAC 1dOCob dQlASAO1l to "The Hit Parade" ... He pre- fers the loveliness of the original words. He just can't imagine any, body improving on Jerome Kern, anyway To him the word, character" is description of moral fibre rather than an eccen- trio individual .. The books on his shelf weren't ordered by the yard to match the color scheme of his room He's never backed night club because he liked being with Showgirls so much --. or be- cause it was cheaper to pay the weekly deficit = than playing stage door Johnny and all-around yap. ;. He has no enemies and so many friends that the New Yorker can't get enough stuff together to do a profile series on him.
 He doesn't have a Falstaffian imagination that colors the sim plest thing that happens to him into melodramatic adventure =. He says one of these days he's going to startle the newspaper profession by doing colyum that isn't an imitation of anybody's i. !. You never see his name among the years Ten Best Dressed Men-and is he grateful! Says men who dress that well probably also use perfume instead of soap =. One of the reasons he never had a punch in the eye or nose, he says, is the motto: "Never Fool Around the Other Feller's GirT' When you see him wearing black eye-you can bet it came from door.
 He misses the Worlds Fair . 1. He has never stood on his head or shown off in the Met Opera House or any place .. :. He gets a check for his hat, coat, meal-also his weekly services He tips a dime for dinner, nickel for lunch and his hat for breakfast He's not hard-boiled and never talks out of the side of his heart They never introduce him at those Sunday nights for celebs on Sand St. He's never married Peggy Joyce-not even once! .. |. He doesn't resent your success or anybody's. In. front or behind their backs When he recognizes a well known man or woman in pulp lie acting like a ham = it makes him shudder He removes his hat in elevators when woman gets on, when a clergyman or rabbi ap- breaches, and when Bernie tells a joke.
 When he gets up to give lady his seat in the subway or trolley it is because he is gentleman and not because she is pretty The only low number he ever got was on his draft registration He doesn't send wisecracks under his name, that he read elsewhere, to the "LetterS-to- -the-Editor" col- yum You never see his picture in Broadway restaurant windows The only ones he can spare are on his loved ones walls or dreSSers He can't understand why any, one in these times criticizeS the Government or the President. He contends that whatever his couln- try does is all right with him = that he is an American and not pro-any- oLher-nation! If Garbo or any big shot tries to escape the stares of the curious in public = he un- derstands-and doesn't echo the criticism of the hecklers.
 Just because somebody diSagrees with his political views he doesn't label him a Communist or Fascist His idea of clean gag is the sort Will Rogers would have told
 When he sees George M. Cohar or Irving Berlin or men like them it makes him take deep breath in admiration He pays his debts when he says he will, anc never thinks of asking friends fol loan. He gees to the finance companies, instead. He can't un. derstand why some people don't dt the same - and thus avoid a lo of ill feeling He doesn't ad. vertise a girls secrets or favors He has great contempt for fellow! who do The Broadway loaf. CTS call him terrific bore and { lot of other things, but down deer in what they prefer to call thei hearts-they intend to see to it. | that their sons grow up like him,