The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-25

erratum that makes him angry is that he has cancer of the lip from trumpeting '. James is so fit he's breaking dance-room records Paul Whiteman should be in that Gershwin film. Makes no sense without him.
 Mrs. Guy LOmbardO's novel birth day cake for Guy. Soon as he start ed cutting into it-it played @ re- cording of his voice doing his radio commercial .. Peggy Hart, the en- tertainer, is a bridge expert, too, having won many trophies and cups in tournaments. She wants to know where she can send them to be turned into bullets or something for the war effort . Saks 5th Avenue has taken down its auto signal sys- tenn and installed bicycle racks at the doors, which are well filled .. That green-nlue light (atop the Seamen's Institute) is the Titanic Memorial and is a registered aid to navigation. That's why it isn't a violation of the dimout ruling The Times newest reporter is the daughter of the publisher Many Navy officers in town-comnis- stoned before Sept. 1941, were giv- en an extra half-stripe last week Meaning a pay tilt, too.
 Critic John Mason Brown, who had so many visitors at Roosevelt Hospital, needn't get such an in- Hated head. His day nurse, Miss Mason, aughta be in pictures Warning to motorists, who drive near Newburgh, N. Y.: Cops stop them all and ask: "How come you got so much gas--and whereja get itP" Joe, the ciggie-smaking chimpanzee in the park zoo, was left there by John Sims Kelly, the groom of Brenda Frazier Tn Hot Springs, Arkansas, the hooch situ- ation is Gilbert and Sullivanesque. You cannot buy a drink of hard likker at a bar. But you can buy bottle of it and bring 1t to a bar and drink it. In the best hotel the bar is across the hall from the drug store which sells 1t. Result: People drink bottles, no drinks The new phone book still lists Dewey as D. A.
 In the long history of the Dutch Treat Club it rarely has bestowed any tangible piece of valuable prop erty upon a member. Last week two gold watches were presented to its youngest members. One to Frank Farrell, drama cd of the World Telly. The other to H. Taubman, music critic of the Times Sud- den Thawt: What about all those enemy-aliens, who came to the U. s, in the last three years, married wealthy American gals, and are now swaggering possessors of X-cards and 3-A draft classifications? And what of the many elbow-bend- CTS, who never did a days work in their lives, who suddenly become so essential to defense industry"? In the same community where liar old Ross, the New Yorker editor raised such a holler about people from Harlem and the Bronx, etc you are barred from tenancy--if you admit being a defense worker! A lotta Ross necks.
 After almost 60 hit ditties in seven years, Nick and Chas. Kenny, will do their first film score for "Fol- lies Girl" Peggy Fears is plan- ming another show with her ex- grooms' basking. He made another bundle in Mexico, where he still is Two players on the Pittsburgh team make the Mccoy Hatfield feud look like a Romeo-Juliet bal- cony scene Diosa Costello, the madcap conga star, is opening the spot on the former Kit-Kat site <. One legend from the coast is that Veronica Lake wouldn't surprise chums if she quit the screen. Has the quaint notion that romesticity Is more reliable Loveliest melody with the strangest title: David Roses crew toying with ITO span- ish Onion" If Spivy offers you her diamond studded cigarette case, don't accept 1t |. Gave 1t to Frisco recently and then demanded 1t back Scared him stiff He's a cigar-chewer, anyhow .. Something oughta be done about that 18th Street place, which beat up the girl entertainers when they asked for their nights pay-$3 Hollywood is excited because Hedy wears a sarong in her next flick . So what? ;. In her first film she wore nothing!