The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-01-20

Ano pAAn 20 open 3 night club exc
clustvely for commissioned officera
died stubborn Surveys quickly
showed that they don't have enough
money 70 support anything = : No
organisation goes all out for them.
There Is no USO for officers. The
Officers Service Committee here,
slowly being copied In other cities,
Is tine, but has nothing paralleling
Ssrvicemen's carteens red
Lightner, bridge champ on the Mike
Vandsrbile team, IS no trump at
home; his pretty English wife is In
Palm Beach to divorce him !. The
Harry Conovers' new daughter win
pc chrtstened Raven, because Of her
Jet black hair (sle's 10 days oldD
LeOnore Lennon lost 81
pounds but not Charlie Barnett,
the hand hatoneer who phones her
every night from out west raw
Wray and Frank Capra with heads
together at Chateau Moderne- mo
romance, much business And
II you can't see Gentleman Jim,"
be sure to catch its trailer. Describ-
ing Enrol Flynn 1t says: who al
ways does his best work In the
clinches."
Opponents Of Lame Duck Josh
Lee, former Oklahoma Senator
nominated for the Civil Aeronau-
tics Board have dug up q published
interview In which he said he
Wouldn't 60 up in q plane--too dam
gerols New OPA boss Prem
tiss Brown found the designations
Of more than 80 percent Of his top
aides on his desk. He filed them for
future ammunition At the
washington premiere Of "Comman-
dos Strike at Dawn" sponsored by
the Norwegian Ambassador, all
diplomats waived their sanctified
privileges and came by bus, trolley
or hoe-leather-except those Of
Thai (Siam), Jap-controlleG. but
gtill maintaining U. s. relations :.
Tel Crank, boss Of the American
Forum Of the Air, will be made an
LIZ BY st. Johns u, Feb. 4 :.
WPB announces tighter restrictions
on Cacahuananche oil; In case you
don't know what that is, you can
take WIPES word for tit is "sim-
liar to Oiticica oil" George
Brent enters the Coast Guard this
week Senator Schwartz, de.
feated In wyoming, has the inside
track for q Job on the National
Mediation Board.
Jean Holloway, good-looker who
writes Lionel Barrymore's Mayor
Of the Town." very i'll; she heard
the doctor say her temperature was
1O5, and cracked: "I'll sell at no"
She should have been o bear--it's
now lO1 Kay Harris, Tillie the
Toiler en- the screen, has q reS;rva.
ton for Reno, and 50 wigwagged
her husband, Henry Freulich, cam
eraman in the Signal Corps
Belle Livingston, most raided speak.
easy skipper Of henzine cocktail era,
coming back with o small club on
the upper East Side Eddie
Buzzcll, higtime film director, and
Eileen Haley have taken UP where
they left off Ben Cutler, band
leader who accidentally drove his
car into the Hudson River once,
would do It on purpose II Ann Mil
Ter, Columbia star, asked him to X. 4.
Veronica Lake has volunteered for
Air Raid Precauticn seryice-as q
Siren3
Gwen MEOnaEan, IaConga dancer,
and Don Richards actor, have .
lot 70 talk i s0Ut IA whispers I.
Paul worcester, whose domestic dk-
ficulties were shush- shusted out OF
court, Is flashing b flashy anony-
NOUS blond Edna Merrill, sis
ter-marager Of Joan Merrill, the
warbler, was secretly married on
Thanksgiving Day to Lou Lazarus,
snowman . A major Broadway
theater ducked o scandal by quick
action when Q tipsy 17-year old,
who attended every show to De near
@ trumpeter In q nanG band, got a
bawling out from him, managed to
get on the roof and was about to
leap when she was caught BY an
electrician who CHANGED to be re-
pairing some wires.
Barbara Bannister, heiress, and
Mort Sweig, rich l.otelman, O. big
thing along the Big Street !.
Jennifer Holt. daughter Of Jack
Holt, and bomber pilot 1t. Nelson
Drake, SON Of the Harper's Bazaar
official, Just back from the Alel-
tians, will wed SO viii. IL.
George Boedecker, society heir IN
the Air Force--if Eleanor McCon-
vile OF the Hurricane says yes ~.
Orchestrastar Joe Ricardel ana
Vaughn Norman Of Brooklyn's Al
oha Club have collaborated on q
love song-not necessarily for pub
Ncation jerry Siege!, creator
Of Super1aan. is q wonderworker
around Dorothy Blame, the show
girl.
Lanny Ross was doing q USO
concert at TT. nox. Emceeing the