The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-19
Walter WiRacIaeIl
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 Recently the AP and others re- ported that correspondent Larry AL len (taken prisoner by the enemy) had escaped and walked for a month month back to our lines La- ter the story. never confirmed, was declared false Intimates just got postcard from the newspa- perman-dated Oct. 7th So. the stories that he escaped two months ago do not stand. Mailed it from the same camp he'd been held at for year in Triste .. A new lip- stick due soon will be slogan'd: Guaranteed to Leave Its Mark it's for imprinting kisses on letters to soldiers "Butch," the gal who strips while a comic does his speciality in "Star and Carter doesn't reach for her bathrobe when she exits into the wings nude. She first reaches for her specs!
 Eddie Cantor will re-create typical Palace theater program of 1917 in the film, Show Business" .. The sequence will include Pat Rooney doing his famous soft-shoe routine and Cantor, Constance Moore, Joan Davis and George Murphy, in blackface. singing "Dinah' .. A newspaperman back from Europe reveals a fine gesture by Warner Brothers. They sup piled the coin to found home in Stockholm for refugee mothers and tots who fled from the Nazi purge in Denmark |. The New Amster- dam Theater, once the top musical theater (now a grind joint), wants $10000 weekly to become a lady again.
 The Statler in the Capital turned away 32l contingent reservations one day last week We recently mentioned a war mothers complaint about conditions in an Army hos pital Cat Tuscaloosa, Ala) for re- turned wounded. She told us the bed linen hadn't been changed for two weeks, the mems pajamas ditto, the food awful, etc. We sent her charges to the War Dept. As a result, the commanding officer of that hospital has been replaced and $5,000 rushed to improve conditions. We wish servicemen's newspapers everywhere would repri t that, please Milton Berle llys if the Post Office Dept bans Esquire, he's never gonna mail letter again.
 "Thc Case of Herr Scheffer" in the November Protestant is explo- sive stuff Rationing is a big business. Costs the government $l,500000 just to put out ration book The two tankers that crashed off the Florida coast nearly month ago are still burning Ed Bodin of Coronet Magazine says: Based on reader expectancy and reading time WW's column every minute of every day and night is read by 208,333 persons" /. Paris -Underground' is clicking big, an exciting book TDR, whose hob- bies include newspaper typography and makeup, gets the early editions of one Washington gazette, checks off blunders and typo erratums, then sends them to the editor |. Americans are earning 26 per cent more money this year than last, and the cost of living is not going up anywhere like 1t Disney's new star will be pelican Sudden thawt: This column can remember all the way back when Argentina was famous for its COWS instead of its skunks.
 Edmund Wilson replaces Clifton as the book critic on The New York CT Borrah Minnevitch and Sue Wanda are no longer making music Warmers has offered Kyle Crichton of Golfers contract to write out there In Miami Beach the soldiers (who sing as they march) invariably shout: What the hell are we fighting for? The WACS and WAVES will win the war!" FDR might be tacused to read page g of the Feb. 18th. 1908, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. The ar- ticle on the page is titled: "Is Roose- welt a Menace to Business?" A noted FDR booster was being teased about his loyalty . Listen" said the heckler, "Willkie has his eye on the presidential chair again" That was the retort. isn't quite as good as what Roosevelt's got on it."