The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-12
LOVE LETTERS OF A
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COLYUMIST
 Wilmington: T am former New Yorker, who never missed a premiere of the ziegfeld shows. What, please, became of all those lovely creatures Wlao decorated those delightful first aights?-F. J."
 Ina Claire, who started as . show giFl for ZiegfeId, is still a favOrite n plays. Billie Dove has retired snd Is happily married. Mae Mur- 1ay, until last year made personal appearances. She once had a large fortune. Her name still appears sn an the Hollywood buildings and apartments she built Gladys Glad is Mrs. Mark Hellinger and having great trouble finding house. hold help Dorothy MackailI ls in New York as attractive as ever .. Jacqueline Logan is married; In the West !. Martha Mans field died in an accident X. Flo Kennedy Is wed to N. Y. sur- geOn And Peggy Joyce, still going strong, has made her will bequeathing half of her kin and half for home for girls in dis- tFess.
 Texas: "Aleck Woollcott's While Rome Burns published in 1929, offered this tip: {. -. 7. our future war with Japan, which you hear over there at the bar in the Picking club among officers of our own army and navy who are stationed in the Far East. I heard how many years really satisfactory war would take, how we would have. to begin by frankly yielding up Philippines and then spend two years recapturing then.)-Elbert Shea"
 Detroit: 'T understand that you are the source for the remark that Thomas A. Edison, one of Amer icaS greats, started his career as gossip-writer and that one of his early subjects was so irked over an item he printed shat he threw MT. Edison into the St. Clair river. can find no authority for this In any of the books on MT. Edi- son.-Mrs. Robert T. Gaylord
 The book in which read it is Edison, The Man."
 Cincinnati: T suppose you have many other things to do without an- swering silly letters like this, but I would appreciate your settling this about a favorite of mine, Merle Oberon. That she smokes cigars? II. H."
 Miss OberOn smokes tiny black cheroOts.
 Brooklyn: we were discussing The Great White Way (before the dimOut) and none of us were sure of its exact location. You are elected to elucidate-Rosilyn Nave burg, who is betting on you"
 Ie was from 42nd to 5lst. It has less than 40 lamp posts under city supervision. Without these 40 street lamps the City Fathers would deem Broadway "inadequately lighted" The dim0ut is costing thee elctric and neon sign makers about $25,OOO,- 900 year.
 Chicago: "Who decides whether or not people are eligible to the Hall of Fame? I never heard of several greats in it.-M. Fields.
 A board of N. Y. University pro- fessors and others decide. It Is easier for Q woman to make 1t than man. In Che case of 8 male 51 votes are required. For female only AZ. Why, I dunno, too.
 New York: "The newspapers tell of an American General who pulled off a good one about the Japs at Midway-suggested the slogan be Keep Elm Fleeing!' I read 1t re- gently, however, in the Billboard c. H. J."
 It was used last year about Ger mans in Russia.
 Philadelphia: "Is it a fact that to become a dramatic critic for a N. Y. newspaper, one must be. a call lege graduateP I've looked up most of you birds-and not many have university training-H. J. M."
 Fish, tush. George Bernard Shaw and M. L. Mencken weren't coll lege trailned. And William Ha4litt, greatest of all literary and drama critics, never went to university. Hazlitts' lectures and essays on Shakespeare, on the old English dramatists and their plays, are classics of English style studied in schoOls and universities by lovers of English beautiful and unafraid. As dramatic critic or The London Times and other newspapers he set the standard of the art. A new