The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-17
MEhdOS or A COMMUNISTS
 GIRL, FRIDAY

MEMOS or A COMMUNISTS
 GIRL FRIDAY
 Dear MT. w.: had the darndest dream last night. I dreamed I was out with Hitler and Mussolini-and the only thing that worried me stiff was that we would run into you and you'd think I had turned Nazi. We couldn't go anywhere, practically! Adolf wanted to go to the Stork and make faces at you to see what you'd do . Musso wanted to fuss around with the cof- fee spigots over at The Automat .. All wanted to do was wake up and come out of it, and when I did what a reliefi =. Quentin Rev. holds Is bothered by cranks al- ready. Threaten to boycott his books and films because he's pro- British .. The Hour has enough on that editorial dept "wrongo" and intends printing it his issue We are now in 532 papers.
 With all the chorus girls in "Pal Joey" swooning and incoming over Gene Kelly Che plays the role of the HeeD he is still faithful to Betsy Blair of Panama Hattie" |. Ran into Geo. J Nathan. He said he's sorry about. the ASCAP-BdI feud because he can't hear his pet song, "Yes, We Have No Bananas" -. A soandso named Korda (not Alexander) needs a kick in the boomers. He has appointed himself "fixer" between you and the United States He doesn't know me. I was sitting with someone you re- gently needed when up he comes and says: Boy, is Walter burned up about you, etc. But I'm talk ing to him long distance later have you any explanation?" I'm sure you don't know him.
 You recently gave lessons on how to pronounce Knudsen's kname Have you asked MT. Knudsen or any good Scandinavian? The wise old rule of silent knight does not apply. The trouble with the news commentators is not that they retain the "K" but that they drag in a short "A" They should have almost no vowel sound between the K and the N . q. You know so many things that 1t bolsters my ego to be able to correct you :. J. B. Kennedy was swell on WIZ the other night. He told how Goer- ing was joking with a magician after the latter's performance in Ger many the other night. "Now you couldn't turn me into an ele- phant," said the huge Goering why not?" commented Kennedy, "all he'd need would be 8 trunk!"
 I thought you'd like this from the Christian Science Monitor: "In spite of all their troubles, the Rumanians have not lost their liking for pungent remarks. A Rumanian in Bucharest has written: We are a member of the Axis, all right. We have bread like Germanys, soldiers like Italy's, revolutions like Spailn's and earthquakes like Japan's'" ... &c., dano has resumed with a lovely girl partaer Rose Teed, of Chicafo. Only l8 and so gorjus. They start at the Latin Quarter on Palm Island ... James Wood Johnson's friends say you've got him wrong. He meant that appeal seriously; not to in- spire sales for a kin's medical firm. I'd have told you sooner, but he kept going over our heads upstairs and that delayed it.
 Someone asked a Fascist officer: ''How many men are in your army?" He named figure and added: That, of course, is excepting the rear guard" "Of what does the rear guard consist?" came the query "The rear guard" explained the official, consists of the men on the slowest horses" Wm: Reardon of the W-Telly and Mari Neice of Newark were secretly mar ried in Warrenton, Va, on March 28th, 1940. Nobody in either fam fly knows about it yet Lee Shubert is worrying because one of his shows wants to close :. T got a big kick out of reading an interview with him the other day. Groaning because Lne WuLcr 1dIOCu S O come down and interfere with Hell za's run 'It could make five million dollars!" Shubert moaned And all I kept thinking of was that he barred you for four years, and you turned out to be the one critic who liked it enough to make 1t millions of smackers. Re- venge is ducky.
 Goebbels has been saying that the British govt is planning to escape to this hemisphere. In view of the trips Willkie. Hopkins, ct al are making to England, it seems to be the other way around =. Now that s. Burton Heath, the Pulitzer Prize winner Che knocked Judge Manton off the Bench) has resigned-the Telly staff has the jitters and the political crooks are breathing more easily =. Heath could scan the annual tabulations of the mountainous volume known as The Municipal Budget and emerge with page one exposes He also did the tax re-