The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20

NOTES OF A NEW YORKER
 The Big Parade: Illeana Laurel, the ex-Mrs. Laurel (& Hardy), who tells chums she can establish an altbi for Madeline webb, accused in the Sutton murder case Mitzi Mayfair, the dancer, who tells pals she has definitely decided on a trip to Reno Arturo Ramos break ing 12-inch dinner plates on his head without injury, at q Ben Bernie's boy, Jason, shelving a soft berth in the Signal Corps to be transferred Cat his request) to the Air Corps and action 4. Jessica Tandy and her groom-to-be, Hume Cronyn, both of the Thittir . Louis Bromfield, the novelist, who is readying a film for the Army, with Ltivak and Capra directing. ~. Stirling Hayden telling locals that he is not welded to Madeleine Carroll Lou Holtz teasing Willie Howard with: "You look like 8 rich man who's been broke three yearsp :. Eddie Cantor bawling out a bloke who complained about the sugar shortage with: Bitter coffee tastes sweeter than bitter defeat"
 Sallies in Our Alley: Broadway has been amused for decades over the feeble fable that "a little cole ored boy actually writes Irving Ber- lin's song hits" The other day a well known gal was quoted by a Philadelphia paper as saying she gave Irving the idea for his latest ditty C. When, Berlin received the clipping he showed 1t to his wife and chuckled: "The little colored boy turned out to be a little col- ored grill" Critic John Ander- son got a ham from the wife of an actor he roasted in the paper. The suggestion, presumably, is that Anderson should cultivate a fond- ness for ham. The drawback is-it will also improve his carving of 1t In short, those Congressmen who dealt themselves X-cards from the bottom of the deck (to hog gasoline) will learn the K" marks the spot they put themselves on.
 Midtown Vignette: Joseph Schenck, the movie magnate, who is paying his debt to society (because of income tax delinquency refused to permit his closest friends to see him off to the upstate Federal place .. He kept 8 rendezvous at 72nd Street and West End Avenue with Federal mem and then proceeded up the highway Schenck's very last gesture was to sit down and write out a list of names to whom weekly checks must go as usual All of them being former stars and friends who are jobless and in need Schencks weekly handouts amount to about $85o.
 MGmlOS of 3 Midnighter It's a boy for the Johnny Seat" Davises back home tn Indiana Duke Daly is suing a paper for saying he had announced leaving town to join the RCAW and then didn't. When he read 1t he had already been in a Canadian uniform! /. Not true that the British American Ambu- lance Corps Is folding. Their good work continues The Hollywood Caravan show for Army and Navy Relief Gin San Francisco packed them in like sardines. Could have sold another 10000 tickets Pierre Husse in his book about Hit Ter, '"The Foe We Face" says Adolf looks like 8 second-rate Chaplin when he dons his silk hat on oc- casion. Usually pulls 1t down far over his ears and sometimes can't get IE off without 8 struggle .. None of us around town cares very much about the stories from back stage at "Priorities". Regarding 'fist fight" between Baker and Howard.
 New York Novelette,: One of the gang leaders of the prohibition days had violated his parole, and when he was tipped that the gendarmes were coming for him-he went on the lam He hid out in a tiny Ohio town for over six months . One night, to the amazement of intimates, he phoned them to visit him in 8 West 58th Street apart ment They couldn't believe thei. eves "What are vOfl doing