The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09


 Mime. Chiang Kai-shek's intinnates
 here learn she may return with
 Willkie. For an operation injuries
 sustained in a motor crash last year
 .. Producer v. Freedley and Cole Porter have phffft. Mike Todd may
 inherit the show V. Complicating
 the Supreme Court situation is MT.
 Justice F. Murphy,s demand for
 combat duty Those page ads
 blaming ''the 7tn Column" for the possible reason the Troopship Wake field burned at sea-is a boner 'aThe 7th Column" is the honorable name given to Jugoslav General Mikhailovitch,s gallant gucrillas!
 <. Biggest bettor was a prornin- ent razor executive who wagered $50,000 on each game of the Series
 that St. Louis would win In Washington the other day when the cast of "This Is the Army" marched to the theater, pavement spectators
 applauded-a1 the soldier-actors started taking bowsl
 Diana Barrymore crushed the Hollywood legend: You're as good as your last picture" She's ap- peared in two Hops, yet she's a star ~. The Copacabana-With the best of the girl floor revues in town --is coining a mint The re- cording of "The F'uehrer's Face" de- serves its popularity. Puts you in stitches :. Military experts should take lesson from reporter Hanson Baldwin. Describing the situation in the Solomons he reports: "Its as though the Marines held Jones Beach and the rest of Long Island was loosely dominated by the en- emy" !. Understandable lingo, isn't it? The George Brent-Ann Sheriden marriage collapse is the latest to embarraSS several movie mags which currently report "how happy they are" =. The mag ads for the film, Desperate Journey" describe it as story of the com mandos. There isn't a commando in 1.-the heroes are all airmen.
 You Were Never LOvelier" has the breeziest dialog matching AS- taire,s hoofing and HayWorth's beauty Madeleine Carroll will represent the Lidice Lives Commit tee on Monday at the Associated American Artists Galleries when Jo Davidson unveils his statue. The scene: I'll Fifth Avenue M Henri Torres, the famed French lawyer, has written book on 5th Columnism, which Brentano's has held up. Because of the threat ened libel actions by some of those attacked in it. The author is at the Waldorf .. Gable graduates from that training school on the 28th, not Christmas. He's among the top in his class .. We always heard Peaches Browning was dwelling in the West. Chums here, however, fear she's been caught in the Nazi web in France Have you seen former Trib reporter Joe Alsop, kin of the President, since his release from g Jap prison? The Jap cuisine reduced him considerably IntI News has sent Bob Brumby to the Pacific war sector to replace Jack Singer, reported missing in &C., tion." se
 Burma Aquanetta, who posed as a lass from Venezuela in Hollywood | (and then explained she was an In- dian from Wyoming -and later from Phila.) is back in town. A beau- tiful question mark-stopping at the Savoy-Plaza Overheard: l Washington is a place where To- Let sign goes to die" .. Libby Hol- mans new blues repertoire was coached by Josh White. the Negro guitarist. She will introduce 1t at La Vie Parisienne Bea Vain is of the opinion that considerable scrap metal would result from the turning in of all those Remember Pearl Harbor" motor car plates, too. Myrt & Marge, veterans of the soap operas on the air, haven't been signed yet for the new season .. Have a chuckle: Roy Rogers, the cowboy, and Roy Rogers, the band leader, want to stop each other from using the name. Insiders argue the first is really Edward Ferensh -the other Pete Campenella.
 Jan VaItln, the auCnOr, IS SeekluS assignments from the Treasury Dept to sell war bonds And with his best-seller behind him, chumS hear he is broke Miss Subways" this month is Evelyn Clark of Provo, Utah. She's a double for Eleanor Holm ... Bobby Byrne's sax tooter, Frank Simeon, is reported killed in action in the Solomons Bob Allen joined Hal Kemp's crew at the Pennsylvania Hotel seven years ago. He's the maestro there now =. Red Skelton's bride is in town looking for gag writers for her groom's pro- gram. Legend always had it she was the author Variety reports that Irene Bordoni's trademark song was They All Do It. Wasn't it: Let's Do It"-a Cole Porter hit from the show Paris? The Mayflower DoNut shops are planning a Broadway canteen for WAACs and WAVES. Sort of a Land.
 The Princeton student body is aroused over The Daily Prince tonian,s editorial in the Sept 30th issue .. The Aeronautical Club in the Biltmore is now canteen for members of Allied air forces. Doris Chapman and Gloria Whitney pre- side Neat presiding, too