The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24
BIG ToWN HEARTREAT


ing like Q freshman. His plaids make
him appear twice as huge as he
amt Betty Compton with her
new groom and James j, Walker,
her former, reminiscing about Brazil
from whence she recently returned
"the hard way" zorina In flat
heels and beret Connie Benz
nett, Sylvia Fairbanks and Margaret
Hayes at Riobamba ringside tables
The Vogue Gallery Mrs. Cary
Grant (Babs Hutton) In Saks With
Avenue--a Fiye-and-T Ten Cent Baby
In Million Dollar Store !, H. B.
Warner, the film vet, ana Bonita
Granville doing the midtown mem
ageries Dean Alfange, the poll
tician, tagging Rep. Glare Luce's
talks this way: "She's having Luce
nations" Abbot g. Costello (and
their party Of twenty persons) Wis
iting about q half dozen spots
. nightly for two weeks and making
Broadway History by demanding
checksl
(. Sallies in Our Alley: Moss Harris
lovely place in Pennsylvania was
flat land until he renovated 1t into
an attractive. paradise, where he
invites his chuns :. He was telling
Dorothy Parker how he bought
thousands Of pine trees, built a
huge pool, and purchased acres of
floral things, etc. "Think Of
what God could do" sighed Dotty,
IF He had your money!" i. In
the Stork cub last night q group
was urging Jimmy walker to run
for public office again +. politics
Is for flat-feet and fatheadsl"
MemOs Of o Midnighter: Kate
Smith sends kin Of war heroes flow
ers by wire H. Neigher's nifty
woodworking: "Herr- Drained" =.
Paul LaValle's arrangement Of
"Boogie Bolero" drives you rhumb-
batty Father Paul Schultz,
now a teacher at Belleville, ILL.,, Is
not the Schultz mentioned here re-
Gently. Scribes out there will be
pleased If the colyum so seq. Glad
to j. Glaenzer, who makes all
that dough peddling lavish gems at
Carriers, squawked about the steep
fees In 81 The Arnold Forsters
are imaging. Ditto the author Lud-
wig Bemelmans >. The Van Cos
lows esther MUIR were blessed
with an 8-lf. doll at the Hollywood
Hosp Ruby Zoos Den has
opened new room costing Is Gs.
Just to seat 80 more customers
That Playboy's next front-page STAR
SVtll1 taa a1innA1 hAaHH-
ing Of canned goods in basement
bins.
Midtown vignette: Former AM
bassador j. Kennedy and friends
were In a late place swapping pol
litical and other views One IN
the group asked Mr.. K. what he
thoagh about things. He said he
was concerned over the many per-
sons who "had lost confidence IN
the leaders" =. He also said that he
had two sons In the war and he
was Just as anxious as every Ameri-
can TO get them home again
"TTAen," one Of us suggested, "Why
don't you get all the others who
no longer are on the Presidents
Team--forget your differences and
grudges - and help him fight one
war instead Of two? Why don't you
Mr.. Ainbassador who have so
much good sense, logic and sanity,
and Jim Farley and John Bennett
and oil the other Democrats-put
your country first, your party Sec
ond and your politics last--and all
of you 60 into the White House
tomorrow morning and say: Re
porting for duty, sir!'"
the Big Time: Gregory Ratoff's
new filmusical, Something to Shout
About" Just as the title says 49,.
The Benny Rochester hit In FoX's
"Meanest Man In the~World"
II. Wismers sports stuff over the
Blue Network Diosa Costello's
Puerto Rican can at La Conga :.
The new Benny Davis floor show at
the, Frolics, In which several tai
ented youngsters give every indl-
cation Of stardom.
Manhattan MuraIs: The Colum-
bus Circle street cleaner who looks
like Mussolini The sign in a
Sad Street boot repair shop: These
are the times that try mems soles!"
The street hawkers near the
Cortlandt Street tubes - the 1943
Curb Market The Army In
duction, where the windows have
been painted non-transporent
white - to keep the draftees from
looking in at the John Powers model