The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-18

FltbS 1T you were wondering
 about the talented Paul Haakon-
 he's at camp training to be a fieht
 instructor :. Joyce Hing the lovely
 slow girl, who went from the frs
 Ver-Sigh click to By Jupiter. 2
 leaves Monday. with a goth Century.
 Fox contract. Her screen name i:
 Joan Fulton Billy Mitchell,
 sister, Ruth, is asking the cinema magnates for $1O0, ,OOO-for her Chet.
 nix Guerilla adventurers. Oxford
 Press will put them between covers
 soon .. Universal got the title
 Forever Yours" for Deanna's new.
 est role, from the way she signs
 her letters to her groom The
 book of the Month for December
 will be two: Cornelia Otis Skinner'c
 Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
 (Dodu Mead) and Louise D. Rich's We Took to the Woods" Gippin- cott.l
 Erskine Caldwell's new deal has the publishers working for him. He gets quarterly payments for years
 whether he writes a book or not ... Lew Ayres is now a First Class Pvt. at Camp Barkeley, Texas. What a comeback! ]. Intimates hope the talk that Joe Penner's widow. is broke isn't true. His famed duck everyone thought, laid huge nest egg The studio persuaded Rita Hayworth to wear a one-piece swim suit IT, You Were Never Lovelier'' ". They say she is the loveliest thing on the screen in it On the radio he's Red Barber. In the Times he is by-lined Walter Lanier Barber. Such airs! '. That woman who screamed at the Capitol The ater the other night (during the newsreels) couldn't help it. Hadn't heard from her son in months and there he was-marching in Lon- don Add New Workers who are doing a big job without exploita- tion: Jock Whitney-abroad on a secret mission.
 goth Century Fox will soon release an anti-lynching film, '"The Ox- Bow Incident" starring Fonda. Box office receipts in the South will be carefully studied The Gallup Poll is used by the best studios these day-to check the power of stars. Many of them, it is said, who get the billing-aren't as popu- lar as the John Payne school of players You can see people bloody and tortured on the screen, but the Hays office has just slapped the wrist of one film firm because it used the word hell in an ad /. Ann Corio has a real squawk. She's been selling bonds in Phila., but an theater refused similar per1nish be- cause she was starring for com petiJor! Don't get so burned up about the night clubs wasting rubber by giving away prizes in ball. Icons. The salvage stations get them later This is imitation: Schrafft's pays dishwashers $6 a day.
 Carlos Ramirez, the South Ameri- can baritone at the Waldorf Roof, may connect with the Met :. The talk persists that Pullman rooms will be discontinued for the dura- tion. Diners may go, too. Only up- pers or lowers will be available :. Palm Beach is readying for its best season. Reservations in most places there are being declined already {. <. :. Amos and Andy say they are not trying to drop their 5-time-weekly broadcasts for a once-a-weeker |. To get his material for his Sateve- post piece on USO-Canlp Shows, author M. zolotow travelled with show disguised as an assistant dog trainer ;. The facts in Sabotage! .he new book exposingt he traitors In the U. S., were triple-checked thoroughly. Lawyers demanded poor on 261 statements in 1t :. The ,olyum had a pretty good pun con- taining the word exquisite-but :an't remember how 1t goes