The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-10
aEEAaos or A GIRL FRIDAY

Dear Mf. W.: hear peculiar talk
about the 30 alleged seditionists
whose trials have been deferred so
much. Openly boasting they'll never
be tried /. The washington Post
suspects the same. Fine thing /.
The latest thriller from Russia Is
the film, "City That Stopped Hit
ler." Taken during the Stallngrad
battle. Watch for the sequence
showing the capture Of Nazi Gem
eral Won Paulus. His incessant eye
witch testifies to the beating he got
~ The Laugh Time" show must
be good. First witnesses were still
verbally applauding It until stnup
X Warn the servicemen to pass
up the side-street con-man dice
games =. I called the War Bond
people and inquired why you
hadn't been invited to participate.
They told me they sent you spe-
cial delivery on the 25th, while
We were still vacatloiling. can't
find any trace Of It yet.
I've tipped E. r. buttons that
one big book store tells people
who ask for "Under Cover" that
its "been withdrawn" Fact Is TO-
900 copies are on the presses now.
Over 100 letters arrived yesterday
at our desk, some enclosing
checks .. "The Open Door" radio
program has spunk. Defends the
ideals OF Wallace Seems to me
that all the magazine scribblers
who did pieces claiming New
York Is a dead town are waiting
In line for night club tables.
Esquire's next will have a piece
on the Stork Club owner. Titled:
The Baby That Brought the
Stork." 1t was a good line when
We used 1t In Faces About Town
months ago Good story In the
headwaiter at Ruby Foo's Den. His
name Is David King. He doubles
az an advisor at the Chinese
Consulate here - college man
4. Mass firings going on among
1--WE bands. G-Men are collaring
REFER addictS among them The
song, There's q Star Spangled
Banner Waving Somewhere" is
an amazing click. Over q million
copies. The publisher uses his
own hand press The talk Is
that when Gun6Or Haag, the run.
ner, returns here he will marry
Dorothy Nortier, q Swedish cutie
80. Met star John Brownlee called.
He entertained at the British
Merchant Navy Club, where host.
eSses are actually named: Berta
ireland, Margaret England, Joan
Wales, Bette Holland and Isobel
Glasgow.
A letter from q lad / know in
North Africa says they are en-
tertained by French travelling
shows featuring shippers An
other fellow, a prisoner of war in
Germany, wrote me that they are
permitted TO sing God Bless Amer
lea" but not the 1.-THE Star Spangled
Banner" And third complaint
Is from Q Sgt. who before going
to the war zones) read a great deal
about the men getting American
broadcasts via shortwave. Says he
hasn't heard one yet In India =.
Jerr1 Blanchard, who was Ar.
mardos for five months, phoned.
Resting with kinfoik before resum-
ing. Hopes you1l discount rumors
Dorothy Pinto and Elinor Troy
had wild swinging encounter back
stage at the FolieS Bergere. One
frock was torn to shredS.
-~-..
The RiObamba owner had open.
ing night tickets TO Laugh
Time" but his wife couldn't GO
had 10 stay home with the baby.
Too bad" he said, an 60 to the
club, instead mo" she said,
ole IL for you" Whereupon she
telephoned his ex-wife, who graci-
ously accepted the invite to ac-
company him to the Showl :.
Conover model first" names are an
obsession with Conover. Choo- Choo
johnson Candy, Jones, Misty Allen
and now the latest: Gam Gibbons.
>. The latter is an Arturo Ramos
favorite Show business Is fine
for everybody except the producer of
Of Q last season musical. He's now
Q captain at the Taft bar
James Mckinley Bryant, who was
married the other day, reports for
induction on the 18th Frank
sinatra Is lampooned via q take-off
IN Cover Girl".
Baukhage, the commentator, was
ut the Quebec conference Your
story yesterday about Jessie Royce
Lands reminded me of him. When
ever he's away he phones his wife.
At Quebec he freely discussed RooSe.
welt and Churchill without once be-
ing interrupted by the censor. The
day they left Quebec, Baukhage
mentioned the fact over the phone,
With no interruption. But when
Mrs. Baukhage innocently inquired:
'How,S the weather up there2" the
censor broke In with a curt: Sorry,
that's military information" and
cut them off hope you've |
noticed that the people who now
propose long "cooling-off period"
after we win the war-are the same
naes who lulled the nation into such |
. long getting hot" period before
eeafl Harbor.