The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-11
Walter WinchelI
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from the govt. He can make that in a Hollywood fornighti . Some French officers told a 59th Street night club head waiter a week ago that The Lafayette (Normandie) was leaving very soon" Loose slips sink sh!ps??
 Midtown vignette: It happened in that 53rd Street spot the other midnight Peppe Russo, man. about-town, was ringsiding with some swells - nlinding his own busi- ness. Suddenly civilian two tables across the way (who was staring at him pointed at Russo and exclaimed: And what are YOU doing in the war?" :. Russo tried to ignore it Hey, you" persisted the nuisance, T said what are you doing in the warp" '. When he saw that the entire audi ence was looking at him Russo held up one of his hands - from which three fingers are gone The spectators turned away-sympathe- tically-and glared at the louse- who hastened out-just in time.
 l New Yorchids: Manor & Mignon's ballrooming at the Beachcomber Ashton Gregg's Grand Finale" in Esquire -. :. Richard Hillary's Falling Through Space" - thrill ing book Billy DeWolfes devastating satires at Versailles :. |. Anything Joseph Everglades Lewis does at Copacabana. The look CTS there are a good show, too |. Eddie Duchin's How About You?" platter :. Cagney in Warmers Captain of the Clouds" Jerry Wayne's furnishing via WOR :. And to the DeMarcos of Banjo Eyes"-a brassocatelya!
 Broadway Sma1l-talk: They keep saying that 1t looks like 8 cinch for Betty Field to inherit the cov- eted role of Maria in For w. T. B. Tolls" 4. Oscar Serlin wants Spencer Tracy or John Garfield for Steinbeck's "The Moon Is Down" Frances Faye, 59 lbs. simmer, is reported Miami click. But isn't she usually? Billy Roses in- vestment on the flop Clash by Night" was about 50G's. He lost about 10 Metro thinks Gov. Olson's boy, Richard, is another Gable. Screen- testing him :. One of the movie mags must certainly wish it could take back an article it has on Carole. Such sour timing ... Naomi Shaw is the Hollywood Reporters new tllree-dotter.
 New York Novelette,: She had just graduated from high school Pretty, personable and movie struck |. She, haunted the agencies, chorus calls, etc., so much that ele- vator starters knew her by her first name But the big door just wouldn't open One morning in a Broadway colyum she read about a sales girl being discovered" in a and 10 She had an idea She took job in a downtown shop Then phoned the movie talent executives along B'way and said: There's an exact double for Lana Turner at Ohrbachs" .. The scouts trampled over each other to check il .... She has, she says test offers from thre of them Her name is Peggy Biber.
 Sounds in the Night: At Leon & Eddie'S: "He never makes passes al gals who wear glasses. Just at dopes in their cups" At Dempsey's: "The only break he ever gave hel was the one in her heart" Al Martinique: What soldier hell make. If he bayonets as many Japs as he has knifed guys in the back the wars almost over" Al Havana Madrid: "Is he a 1niser? He's got more money than there is!' At Club IS: "She looks like Gene Tierneyi" Don't you mear Gene Tunney?" =. At Club Frisco I've got her consent her fathers consent and now all I need is my wife's" At the Penuguin: '"The one on the left. The one who should be wearing ring in her nose" At the Hickory House She's the Scarlett O'Horror type.'
 Broadway Blackout: Honey, you know you never see me fool around any other women" That's the trouble. I never see you!"
 Midtown Melodrama: It happened over at Versailles the other mid night <. He was very young man in uniform and he couldn't have had more than three drinks He wasn't blind, blotto or stiff He was just loose Glug-glug The management tried to sober him up-for fear he'd get him. self into trouble -. But he couldn't stand They tried smelling salts '. That flopped, too Finally just returned marine leaned over and whispered: "A lot of my buddies are still up in Iceland with no movies or grille shows so that the rest of us can make whoopee down here. Snap out of it! Remember Wake Island" .. And that did it
 On the Cynic Railway: On B'way Too Many People Garry the Torch ] AS Their Spotlight.