The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-11
Broadway And Elsewhere
By Jock Loit

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 MEM0S OF A SUB REPORTER:
 The butler for high-priced Holly
 Focd star is (she doesn't know a
 ormer millionaire shoe-manufac-
 ;urer from Berlin, married to a
 countess .. ... Nick Stuart, ex-hus- oand and Sue Carroll, weds Martha
 Burnett, Biloxi. Miss, socialite, in
 St. Louis, Dec. 9 t.. The. old "stol-
 m fur-piece" racket, rush-act
 ihush-act and all, is being. worked with nylon stockings, surreptitiously
 'bootlegged' at $2 a box-yes, not & pair. The crook switches boxes and the sucker finds an old pair
 of worn stockings and some nice tissue paper ... Jerri Vance, the eontortionist at Leon & Eddie's, says she's goilng in for dramatics as 500 mas she can straighten herself out.
 Abel Green, editor of Variety, dips us the Mccoy on show-business
 x. The 25-grand ceiling will mur-
 Ter radio and pix New Orleans will be this Winters Broadway ar1- nex Raw film curbs will put double features on ice Many actors afraid to play camps because loughboys razz them for not being
 n uniform; they have as many de- 1endents and physical disabilities as any other class .. :. Not one really great war song so far, and nostalgia bromides still servicemen's choice. ... George M. Conan died too soon we could use another Over There" Grable and Lamour. Hope and Abbott Costello rate tops with the boys (. Discs not only got a petrifying from Petrillo, but got g. shellacking from shellack short age.
 New York cops who assist in em- ergency births are immediately initiated into departmental fra ternity, the Rabbits Club. It now hc 89 members. Each inducte has to pass the cigars to all the rest. So big now thaht the Rabbits will sub- divide into chapters-one for each of the five boroughs, because cigar money has attained a disastrous high '. But what we started out to tell you was that the one police man who has played Officer Stork became a father, himself, recently
 and when the nurse nodded, he fainted.
 Hot from. HollywOOi-A New York nightlifer was very interested in Peggy Slat;orlee until she told Cthe judge) all =. Chlorine Kay Grable, at Florentine Gardens, never discussed her private affairs with the others. After she tainted when the tale of Barney Ross hero- ism dominated Page l, they learned she was his wife Singer Rog- CTS ic so smitten with actor Phil Reed, she even goes to church with him .. Bob Stack pays atten- tion to nobody but Anne Shirley . Joan Davisf1 the funny femme has been sent Who's Who ques- tionr .aire. Only two other screen gals have mace it-Bette Davis and ASAhAOAu OoAlASAA AN0kAyOAls the softie, will glamorize convicts in war endeayors, film titled Let Us Live" Vince Barnett, the practical joker pulled a corny one on N naval lieutenant and got a poke in the nose The Mickey Rooisey's reunion isn't kosher Bob Sinclair is calling Heather Angel by her last name. He directed her in in "The Wookey" and is now now an air lieutenant Mill ton Berle and his bride caleld off their Mantagu-C -Capulet just in time to squabble on their first wedding anniversary together in New York.
 I'm old Fashioned" is a good title for that tune. Offenbach's are .. Eric Maria Re- marcue is not all quiet about Dag mar Godowsky, who was the be- loved of Rudy Valentino The WIPE $1-a1yearer who's done the sloppiest job will not be fired-hell be promoted Lynn Bari, divorce certificate in hand, will be with test pilot Sid Luft when he applies for