The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-04
BROADWAY and ELSEWHERE
MEMos OF A CUB REPORTER
 The Citizens National Committee
By JACK LAIT-

MEMOS OF A CUB REPORTER The Citizens National Committee points out that no published dis cusSion of United Nations postwar plans estimates costs to the Ameri- can taxpayer; that they will sum In billions is obvious Official plans contemplate raising the,whcle world economic level ;. David B. Hooertson, president of Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen and En- glnemen, points out: Our popula- ton IS 6 per cent of the world; our wealth is 30 per cent; our in- come Is 36 per cent. World equal ny (Whlcn could be achieved only through dictatorship would give the United Sttaes only its share Of world income, which means she would reduce to per cent of total world income; give away, through draft, rationing, cash and credit, 30 per cent of the world income we now enjoy. Thus, 94 per cent of the world population would get 94 per cent of the world income |. And thus, the average American citizen would lose 5-6 of his income |. If he earns $60 a week at the end Of the war, he would eventually earn only $10 week, when and if New Deal postwar dream policies should become concrete realities.
 Latest Broadway twOsome: Lieut. Harmon Nelson, ex-husband of Bette Davis, with the girl who would rather be Bette Davis, than President - Ann Corio, the stri- peuse, who has torn down .jick walls with her bare hands trying to crash into the legit-Hollywood or Broadway -. There will be re- stricted Army areas in Manhattan and the Bronx as an afterclap of the Harlem nughtiness Steve flanagan, constantly connected in rumor with Maria Harrington, is Stork Club regular with Florence Rice Those Britishers! Tom Healey, London Mirror war cor respondent, sat with number of BroadWayites as Zorina passed by. All looked and the Americans dis cussed her legs. Then certainly ap- pear deucedly capable A high ly publicized proprietor of the kind of places that lead to jail Gas hers recently did her) won't starve; owns Is per cent of topflight band leader, now in the movies, whom she financed when he needed it.
 We advise against selling Al Woods farce, Try and Get It. too short. The audiences are roll ing in the aisles, doubles up with laughter. "Abie's Irish Rose" and "Hellzapoppin" were almost as brutally clubbed by the critics . And Murderers Row might have been trifle less bloodthirsty ever Al, a fabulous producer, histori- cal character an da prodigal prince with his money when he had it Gin the millions The new night club, Fl Borracho (that means The Drunkard), has Kiss Room," with walls, ceiling and floor becoming covered with indelible imprints of familiar Hollywood and Broadway tips, with autographs to authenti- cate .. The platter-producers have apparently allowed the fight against the Petrillo extinction of their in- dustry to slow down into 2. faint gasp; they seem to regard it as a record Caesarean operation =. . Henry Morgenthau, the big money man, was caught eating in Lum F'ong's minus tie and jacket . . /. Betty Compton Knapper, former wife of Jimmy Walker is having A baby.
 Mae West, in 8 communique to this column: T certainly appreci- ate the way the boys of the RAF have perpetuated my name and my fame by calling their life-saving jackets Mae Vests. I told the boys when wrote, thanking them: I've been in Who's Who, know