The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
NoTEs OF \ NEW YoRKER

NOTES OF A NEW YORKER
 Al Jelson insists 1t happened wher he was playing one-night stands at Fairs in tho hinterland 4. Jol- son was working on a percentage oi the gross and was fussy about gate crashers, etc. gHe stood at the entrance until Inc had to be made up" to make sure he wasn't being counted out ., x. Along came Q bloke who said he was the drummer in the band "Well," challenged Jolson, ''wheres your pass9" IT lost lt," said the fellow .. "You lost itY" squawked Al, T hac them made very his-you couldn't have lost itl"
 "The hell I couldn'ti" was the re. ply, T even lost the driml"
 At sardrs last night they were wondering what spot in the Broad. way Belt would provide the best air-raid shelter ''The Nora Hayes Theater," suggested Jack oil. ford, ''it's never had Q hit"
 Benay Venuta forwards the fable about the two penguins that were waddling around the Rockefeller Center "Boy," said one, "this is the lifel Nice atmosphere anc Q higher type of people to stare al you. What more could you askp"
 "Yeah,p sniffed the other, "but you get better herring in Lindy's.'
 Jackie Gleason, the cowedian writes from Movieville that he had lunch with q woman colyurnist who was SO thin that she had knuckles In her knees, and everytime she sat down they made . fistl"
 Street Scene: A tiny Colored girl hauled off and socked an obnoxious : woman on 60th St. and Broadway the other midnight The obs noxlous one was making cracks at passersby with the threat to watch out for the time Hitler came here Hitler" she harangued wouldn't let your kind walk on the same side of the street when Der Tag comesl" After she was socked she appealed to the corner cop for protection and demanded that he escort her safely home, a block away .. The cops retort was Q thing. of beauty Lady" he said, T can't walk with you. I'm not an Aryanl"
 Add Sounds in the Night: "Is it true that St. Peter Is moving the Pearly Gates to the U. S.9"
 Adolf Hitler recently popped of Aabout his discovery" that F. D. R
 D Q Mason "A frightful thingl \ e of his spokesmen shrieked .. oL Do E'ree Masons, as you know, are ong those banned in Nazi Ger am M Another American man lies Lindbergh, Is also life Cnai Ter of the Masonic Order naeinp srgh was inducted into Key Lindp odge No. 243. st. Louis. Mo stone ze received the Blue Lodge ;>....... U. n 1928 .. Upon his re- AR kllA uCu~otOp klVp Lle Wus turn 1I0n gith life membership by honoxsu Wbraneh.
 recall the source now
 We ch bne of the top tales out cut V ls Herr Goebbels, in or ox E1Eope feassure the Greeks, or. S:sssapssn Ssrs% sns z fiying of their natiCnal M ilag Thanked While M Stas the fT three e'fH flags % SmDaeinS s,,. ;;,rrd erground comment in aasS AtSens 4. wa Wss ncblest Man a.t that .t ever lived was ax'O A'SN s'"S two thieves."
 The ral friend \oi a famed m ' Holly 9IE'. wood man has been. .. pack Tn S,Ss Ne% York for three mont.hs ,,.,.. ,S,' rr.as has kept her from lts.ans mn Sa ni'o" that things turned our iUr 1TadSIs ne. {. She IS flat brcse oHaDse natn. .oos se buy a new dress, and sae oisen eoes hMncry :. The otrer day s was her birthday -. Her Soneo a.se., sen' sen her a gift .. A golc "o"es 'Np Sam Riddle, the wealtly sporCs. man is proud of his star steeo, Loro