The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-03
MEMOs OF A GIRL FRIDAY

MEMOS OF A GIRL FRIDAY
 Dear Mir. w.: Phone Silliman Evans. He's your boss in Nashville. ...I explained to Elsa Maxwell why you couldn't make her U. s. o. poddy .... All set for you Co originate from Washington Sunday night, the '12th Don't forget to thank Jimmy Wood and B'klyn Eagle staff for press courtesy Dan Parker says if not using all Yank games please return With buttonl The first ratings are out. Nc. 1 show is Radio Theater (25) Aldrich Family next with 24.6. Char lie Mccarthy is 24.1. Your opening rating is 16.3 Marshall Fields new Chicago paper, A. M, will bar ConInies from its staff Add literary lace: The World -relly's: "Jakie Webb plucked Lennon in the Garden of Love-
 Michael Arlen got in @ week ago looking fit. Refers to his appear ance as "the rugged grandeur of my looks" Frank Fay clicked big ct his La Martinique premiere, hear Senator Nye dined alone at Moore's Wednesday at curtain time Alone is the word Everybody stayed away from his table - as form of criticism : Evelyn O'Brien is in town from Perc Westmore's makeup school for which she lectures. Prettier than many of the stars she helps prettify |. Sam Goldwyn's big ambition, he says, is to film '"The Last Days of Bombay"l
 The Ozzle Caswell bandwagon at the Rainbow Room is a crew to patty-cake, miater The Riviera man called. Said they will keep open till late Nov. Frances Faye tops the new show there Bob Ryland, Colored supt. of the Rivoli since it opened in 1917, died the other day. Popular man with all Broadwayites. Several called to tel; you how badly he will be missed Just found out how the Dodg- CTS got that name. Tn early Brook lyn days every Brooklynite was called a Trolley Dodger' because of the great number of trolleys there .. What WOULD you do without me2
 The cops finally caught up with one of those very private soirees that that Boston lawyer gives for celebs and intimates. If the news papers ever get the story-the repu- tatlons that will suffer, whewl ... Walter Wanger established some- thing of 0 precedent for the films in his forthcoming "SundoWn". He let the lad who wrote the novel, Barre Lyndon, write the picture, too ! loved George Abbott's Best Foot Forward" musical, too. The cast of adolescents are all so clever That show doesn't need a man. ager. It needs 8 truant officer.
 Cu@at's new book, "The Best Know" Is being published by Way erly House, Boston. Anecdotes and ,caricatures by himself .. Who did those swell cartoons for your stuff in the current sea Power? .... Bubbles SchInasi phoned thanx for including Wayne Morris (an old friend of hera in the Photoplay- Movie Mirror piece I thought they were divorccdl ... Kelcey AL len, the critic, hear, has a neat trick for getting his name off sucker lists, When he recognizes the en- velopO as such he rubber-stamps 1t "Deceased" and mails 1t back .. Understand B'way Rose will shortly be bagged for income tax careless ness.
 The editorial dept Is still laugh ing over the Brooklyn Eagles sensayuma. After the first Series game their front page streamer read: "Yanks Win: So What?" I met our Cleveland (News) boss, Paul Bellamy. Swell gink, I think The Satevepee assigned a writer to do a piece on Monty Wool ley and Alec Woollcott in connec- ton with Man w. o. T., Dinner, but the Messrs w. & W. spurned 1tp CAhunAtlB tlle hEVASAS MouAN " undignified; Steve Hannagin case you didn't know, will continue to be press relations counsel for Miami Beach =. A valuable neck lace disappeared at Fl Morocco Sat- dee night, was recovered and lost again (. The mags Metronome and Music & Rhythm are feuding, but such langwidgel
 Capt. Rault of the Navy was in. Mighty pleased about the big show tomorrow at the. Navy Yard .. Eddie Cantor says he wants to come, Jack Benny and Mary Liv- ingston, definitely. Tony Martin likely to show up, as Hollywood hasn't insisted upon his rushing back As understand 1t, the others include Carmen Miranda and her gittar experts, Ella Logan, Danny Kaye, Benny Fields, Sophie Tucker, George Jessel, m. C., Dixie