The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16

names of dolls they knew in the
long ago Blue eyed, blonde Mar
tina Stewart, who thrushes the Hit
Parade tunes at Carnegie Hall =. . E.
Raymond Massey, on leave, shyly
accepting the verbal plaudits on his
surrent film, Action in the North
Atlantic" a corker HUI Kong,
once attached to the Chinese En-
bassy, now a waiter at Club 10 E.
Buster Collier, once a star, now an
agent Eleanor Roosevelt buying
her own ticket for the Army show
at $500.
SaIIies in Our Alley: George Jes-
sells 80 Help Me" book concludes
that the book ought to sell we'll be-
cause he figures all those men,
toned in it will buy copy To
which a book critic summer up:
Like all shoWmen-Jessel papers
the house" The clowns claim
certain whoops-m'de is being
drafted so that al WAC can be re-
leased for active duty.
Midtown Vignette: No we'll known
person, perhaps, has attracted SO
much attention - or turned so
many heads Members of the
Highest Court who have come to
the Stork Club haven't aroused so
much curiosity =. War heroes such
as John Buckley of PIT boat re-
nown and Capt. Foss, who doWned
26 Jap planes, supped there without
SO much as stare. Because even
the staff didn't know they were in
the place, no doubt But the
other night movie favorite kept
the patrons focused on her lowell
ness - Betty Cradle :. . And near
the bar, alone, sat sailor, who
didn't attract an admiring glance.
He wore every campaign rib
bon-ten of them!
Memos Of a Midnighter: Ming and
Toy a Chinese dance team, signed
by RKO for a picture, can't go to
Hollywood. The Army bans them
because one of the team has Jap an
cestry Alan Ladd is now a Cpl
Janet Gaynor will resume her
career-via the networks-in the
spot Mary Astor had The Ritz
Brothers spurned four weeks at the
Capitol Theater at $4,000 per 80.
The Huntington Hartford II-Imo-
gene Carpenter romance is now be-
yond reason Milton Berle will
have a Liberty ship named after
him . Night clubmen are breath
ing little easier with the news that
the warehouses have to 4 year
supply of laughing soup . McGc
lovers can't wait for July 3rd-the
date when the N. Y. Philharmonic
toys with Hoagy Carmichael, Cole
Porter and Jerome Kern tunes
Morton Gould at the baton
Frank Simatra's contract squaWks
aren't because T. Dorsey (Who STAR
ed him) shares it. He merely is
puzzled as to why Dorsey's manager
gets 10 p. C.
New York Novelette,: The chorus
girls from the Music Hall, the Roxy
and the Winter Garden, who hasten
through snack at HanSon's drug
emporium on 7th at 51st, used to en-
JOY teasing him . j.. He was the
Colored chef there, and when he
took their orders he repeated them,
always ending: praise the Lord!''
.. "You oughta be a minister
they kept telling him Kelly
Williams, the father of four chill
dren, smiled and answered: Maybe,
some day!" Well, this is to re-
port to all the dolls in the Broadway
sector that Kelly Williams isn't
around midtown anymore because
after studying evenings for 4 years
he made it. He's now an ordained
minister, and his sermons may be
heard at the Southern Baptist
church, Harlem.
Manhattan Murals: The photos OF
the crooner in the Paramount foyer
covered with lip rouge kisses g.
An angry mob on West 43rd Street
descending on junkman whose
truck is too loaded for the weary
old nag pulling it -. The Rose
land cashier selling ties to patrons
whose sports shirts are not con-
sidered "dressy enough" to dance
with the hostesses .. The mendi-
cant known as Arctic Sadie. She
wears a heavy coat and shawl in
the most humid weather The