The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-29
NEW YORK HEARTBEAT

heavy hackers in the new Cottor
Club Jerome Kern telling pal
Cover Girl" Is the bess musica
Hollywood has made Mitd May
fair, whose divorce becomes fina
on Jan. 5th NelJn Rockefeller
who has formed Hemisphere Films
Inc- to continue better relations
with s. America The Martanda
Of Pudkota (the son Of the Ranee)
rushing Daphne Skouras, deh
daughter Of the magnate Billy
Rose, who had his name plastered
everywhere on Jumbo" his biggest
flop. His name is now In tiny let
tiers on his biggest hit, Carmen
Jones" Ben Blue, the comic,
who has done a first novel, Fun
Atop Knob HILL" due In re.
Richard Wagner,s granddaughter
Uiszt was her great-granddad)
Ffiedelind Wagner, who says Hit
Ter tried to kill her. ToScanini is her
guardian here. She is doing book
Gamma Walska, the former OPP
era star, back in town from her
California ranch-becauSe Of serv-
ant trouble.
SaIlies In Our Alley: One Of the
towns plumper playboys entered
Club 10 last night, and Roy Sedley
cracked: Hes really hindsome"
:. You mean," corrected Vince
Curran, hes handsome" II
mean hindsome," persisted Roy, "he
oughta take off some weight" j..
One Of the Winged Victory" troupe
new to Big Bourg, wondered whence
came all the hub-bub and noise
around Broadway That noise"
explained playwright Moss Hart,
comes from all the promises being
broken"
Midtown Vign=:te: Leatrice Joy
Gilbert, visiting HOLLYWOOD, phoned
her mother - ex-wife Of John Gil
bert, the late movie favorite :.
Mother" Leatrice began, I'm stay
ing at Miriam Hopkins house. I'm
calling you from the study" -. {.
Mother had trouble speaking for q
few moments and then exclaimed:
THAT was our home, and you are
talking from your daddy's room"
Memos Of q Midnighter: The 1t.
F. Graetano. named in the draft
lodging scandal (of that lager herr,
once was one Of MacArthur's aides.
a fact missed by the papers :.
Patricia Ann Ingram, who'll lead
the debs' grand march at the Wal
dorf New Years Eve), is the dghtr
Of J. G. Ingram, Hearst vet scribe
-. Patricia Mace, the Hurrell-Es-
quire girl, is here for model-photo
assignments and to visit her beau,
Capt. Jack Warner, Jr. The
Stage Door Canteen says there Is
no fire hazard there-there are
other reasons for seeking new adj
dress People who don't think:
Those who played Home Sweet
Home" for troops abroad Christ
mas Day. It's a Oppressive, you
dopeS (. Bradshaw Crandall, the
artist. is mending at French Hosp
UNRRA already has head
ache: It's lady govt press agent Is
such locker she's had offers from
four firms at bigger wages /.
Telegram from Hollywood: If a
Nad war prisoners love-hfe Gin
Louisiana internment camps is a
military secret, why can't ours be a
domestic secret?-Steve flanagan
Annie Sheridan" Peter Donald,
the radical, Is in 10y!
Prayer for q New Year (by Don
Wahn): Let us bow down-a New
Year makes its start. Let us take
stock of all that Is in store. Grief
eats away at many humble heart.
Let US resolve that this will be no
more And, above all, o. Master
of Our Fate - save us from all our
enemies within The pompouS
men whose litany Is Hate - the
modern Judas, wary OF his skin.
Let us give thanks to those who
fought and fell = when liberty was
hanging by thread. Let us remem-
Der, and remember well-there is
no caste among the tragic dead.
Say not to those who pay the
bitter cost The war Is won
the peace may well be lost.
Manhattan MuralS: The dimpleS
on the doll (she's ,hief operator)
at the Grand Central induction
switchboard :. The odd-lookers at
the Stork Club: He, barrel Of fun.
She, looking funny barrel {.
Three sailors with coolies of cam
paign ribbons studying the travel
agency ads at Rockefeller Plaza
Lady Olga, the bearded woman
of the 42nd Street freak joints, tax
ing the BMT train home after her
daily grind ;. The New Years sign
in q Delaney Street herring en-
porium: Good luck on everyone"
Broadway Love Story: A we'll
known gal about town, as all her
set know, has three sweethearts-
all prominent men The trio in
her design for living and loving
were at a bar the other shutdown
discussing her Have you no
ticed," said the first, "she seems
to have changed2" "She doesn't"
said o second, seem as happy as
che was. There's peculiar look
- iseT eyes" 81 guess" said the
third, "there are three other men
in her life."
The Orchid Garden: The Shep
Fields' crew on the Park Central
Roof The way Morton Downey
toys with the song, Seven Days
Week" The film, "Gung Ho"
The Bill Slocum, Jr.-Sid Silvers
story as done on CHS Roy
Shields orchestra playing Nevada"
THE Ten Commandments" by
ten famed authors, offering as many
novels at bargain (Simon g. Schu-
ster) THE Song Of Bernadette"
picture +. Any crew playing: Be
same Mucho."
Sounds in the Night: In the
Satire: Her face wore out two