The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-07
Broadway and Elsewhere
BY Jaek Lait

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 Bonlta Granville gets a letter every day efcln Tim Holt, son Of Jack Holt in the Air Corps .i.. Ginger Rogers looks very happy with Phil Need .s. Erich Won @trohetsn, Jra is engaged to Mary Lou simpson, Los Angeles society girl N. Jimmy Rlts win elope win June Millard any edition June Knight wants S4,- 600 . month allmony frosn Arthur Cameron Toxas oil rnaEa--thAt's @2S,- GO over the ceiling Harry Glen by, hAtg.net uangnate, refused 70 pay dress, designer Charlie Le- Maire for gowns his ex.girl friend had ordered. LeNEnire sued, got c leave from the Army, and in court met dlenhy and the girl-who promptly made up. Clenby beck oned Lekaire outside the court room and paid him <. A commit tee oe the New York Bar Associa- ton has sent e request to Bob Evans, ventrlioquist at the LaMar- tinique, to censor his dummy say- ing: ~sae can't be Q lawyer--lae has his hand in his own pocket"
 Colonel Mary Booth, daughter of the salvation Army founder, is in a concentration camp at Liebenau, 20 miles from Friedrichshafen. She was seized in Brussels ... The WIFE has , clearance from the State and Coni- riierce Departments to dismantle and ship to South American countries 500 U. S. industrial plants made idle , by the war |. Shoe manufacturers have been assured that footwear will l. not be rationed. v E ' Hollywood Hlghlights: Lyle Tal- bot, Air Force sergeant, whose mar riage with showgirl Tommye Adams was recently annulled, has proposed to his former love, starlet Linda Brent. who is awaiting a final de- cree freeing her from sailor -actor Steve Cornell <. Linda Ware, now touring in Panama Hattie" ditched a captain in washington for Sid Slate comedian in her show :. Rudy vallee is romancing former tennis star Mercedes Marlow wacky Evelynne Moriarty, who quit the Earl Carroll revue when George Cukor, big director, offered her . part in a picture, is out of a job and out of boy friend. He was drafted. It was her fourth loss of rnanpower to Selective Service-the others, in succession, were Jimmy Stewart, Burgess Meredith and Carl Laemmle, Jr. One Hollywood night club fired 4S of its help the night gas rationing went in.
 The straw that broke the back of WpA was a report from Wash ington State to F. D. R. showing that the beneficiaries had dropped from 7e,000 in 1887 to l,400 in 1942: and that the office overhead exceeded all its other output combined This on top of a charge by Congressman DurSison of Louisiana that New orleans rat-catching project on the vhalveS was operating at a cost of S297 per rat The President was also informed that e four-story si25,0O0 hen-house at the soldiers homo in Washington, D. C., had bought SPA axes to cut down 50 trees.
 Tbe proprietor of the Riobamba, opening Thursday, in Linton Well, new type of bistro boss, who only played football for Dartmouth. but was graduated with scholastic hon. ors The bookies are doing heavy business in the subway corridors around the Square John Gar field was suspended by his studio because he refused to play part in which he seduces a blind girl, beats a dog and kills an old man . Coffees' partner, doughnuts will soon be rationed-shortage in shortening.
 When someone at the Savoy Plazas Cafe Lounge remarked to Lena Horne about her backless, straplesS, frontless evening gown, she said, ''it stays on from men1- ory" Jack Marshall bumped into an old vaudeville acquaintance, saw he was in uniform. Say, didn't you tell 'ern you've got eight children?" Jack asked. His friend replied, T tr-i-i-e-ed t-t-t-toi"
 Dorothy Lamsur and Burgess Mer- edith frequently seen together Maxie Rosenbloom and June For est of the movies going steady" .. The William (director) Wellmans will soon have their fifth |. Lady Furness. twin sister of Mrs. Reggie Vanderbilt. is blazing because Ed- muEd Lowe and Marguerite Chap man are still doing the love scenes