The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-09
MEMos or A 0IRL FRTDAY

MEMOS OF A GIRL FRIDAY
 Dear wv: Senator Nye, in hi 1 speech, said you are trying to ge
 the nation Into war A skunl
 in Rochester (N. Y) called you [
 skunk Rip Van Wheeler say
 FDR, Stimson, Knox, Willkie, Win
 chell and Dorothy Thompson ar,
 warmongers A communist edl
 tor in q coast rag says you are { paid agent for G-Man Hoover
 A recently arrived Czech photogra,
 pher (just hired by & magazint ] here) told his editor that in Nazi'
 dominated Europe they say. Wal.
 ter Winchell Is really woman who
 was deceived and pllted by Ger man" The Connecticut news- paper which threw out your col. limns (critlcizing Lindbergh) is owned by the morning paper which
 just ran an editorial cartoon show ing Lindy at desk with flaming torches on the wal behind hm say ing: Freedom to Speak.
 The Mayor writes: "Tickled to know you will serve on the I Am An American Day!' committee Sum- day. Don't worry about being there, and as matter of fact, stick ot your typewriter. You do more good with your typewriter than many people do who make continual per- sonal appearances .... I explained 10 his office you'd be there If they insisted, but that Sunday was when you were busy with the Monday column and the broadcast for Sun- day eve. I. A man came in, wasn't sore, he just felt awful because he followed your tip on Porter's Cap and lost his weeks salary, rent. etc. told him you said 1t was merely a good @ risk '. Morton Downey at Monte Carlo was heard to say that 1t lis the real McCupid" between his divorcing wife and Addison Randall,
 Audrey Palmer, the blonde bal- lerina in "Du Barry" weds L. Lees, Jr., a Wall Streeter, on June 26th Jessie Royce Landis, the ac. tress, Is at New York Hosp. She will undergo an appendix op to- day Would you be interested in playing the Man Who Came to Dinner for Warnersp Not an offer Just feelcr from someone That Dixie Tighe story about Vir- glnla Faulkner feeling sorry for a cab driver and buying him $25 worth of pate dc foie gras was a fable concocted by Luclus Beebe six years ago--and reprinted in e pro- file about him ... Anyway" says La Faulkner. 'it may have hap pened to him, but it never hap pened to me-"
 The item about "Interme2zo" be- ing borrowed from the "Liebestod" , tfrom Tristan and 1solde) reminds me Of the time Mencken tin an essay on Wagner) remarked that Il was Che most Suggestive" music ever written and he wondered why the Oensors had never banned 1t Mrs. Paul F1ato who IS in Reno, expects her freedom next week. MT. Flato is taking Peggy Joyce fither and thither .. Le- land Stowe's speech at the Over seas Press club, they tell me, was a honey Oh, yes. Another critic in Bartlesyille, okla, colyums that 1t will be swell if you arc called into active service "as thatll be one way of "getting rid of himp ... Won der why thees leases didn't enroll in the Reserve Gin l93l4lD for even INACTIVE service? .... Let them top that one.
 All the loudmouthS who are now fighting further aid to Britain tsayging it'll get us Into the war) are the same soandsos who said we'd be in it as soon as the Lend- Lease Bill was passed .. You for- got to Include in yesterdays the fact that a year ago Chicago editorial page cartoonist was lauded for his "wonderful' picture caption: "In 1917 We Saved the World for Democracy; Now De- mocracy Should Be Saved from the World"i --- exactly as was last-lined in the column months before .. Tho marquee of the State-Lake Theater, Chicago, advertised "Vl- vacious Lady" with Ginger Rogers and Private James stewart Marion whitney, the Powers lovely, will become Robert Miller's bride on June 9th Gotta call ask. ing: "fs Doris Duke hiding out at tho Plumbing DIV Ranch, 9 miles south of Reno2"
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 The papers that made a to-doodle about Hitler's voice being barred by the networks arc careless in their arguments. In the first place, Adolf's voice Is rarely heard. his translator is always putting in cx- blaming. So 1t Isn't Hltler's voice that is barred but Herr Schmltt's. The fact that Hitler hasn't | full freedom of speech in this country seems to worry some edi- tors more than Hitler's threat to