The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-16


 August 26 to qualify in the Noyem- Der category Patrolman David Liebman, who helped deliver a baby, is organizing police Stork club, for cops who have seen simi- lar service The Harry Hop kinses, Averill Harrimans and Bob Sherwoods sixsome at the Col ony . Mike Todd rushing Joan Blonden - to sign her for a Broad way show Virgin Hill, the "fe- male Death Valley Scotty,' didn't drive in behind a 60-mule team but took whole floor in the Ritz Tower.
 The tireless Nick and Charlie Kenny, with Abner Silver, have written new song with corking torch title, Little Did Know" :. Half the office staff sliced off the OWI payroll has been eased in on the OPA Warmers are securing for girl, about 18, pretty enough to screen without makeup, who looks like Mary Pickford in her first flicker, for Deep Valley" George Sanders announces he's worth $1OO,O00 per picture when free of his 20th Century-Fox contract Though he is regarded as cham pion bad boy of the industry, every studio is bidding for him.
 With no publicity, tn fire insur- ance industry scored an incalculable victory in decision by U. s. Dis trict Court in Atlanta, that first insurance, though interstate, is not commerce" so not subject to the Sherman Antitrust Law .. Cover girl Susan Shaw, Americas fore most bride model, never works in August orange blossoms give her hay fever Larry Bolvig, youngest executive of the N. Y Telephone Co.,, joined the Signal Corps t. Leslie Brooks, starlet, will marry Lieut.. Alex Schulman, Army Medical Corps Lionel Wiggam, author is the latset struggled in the K. T. Stevens parade Miriam Hopkins will go to the Coast next month to sell all her prop erty there; she's for Broadway stage work from now on.
 George Backer, divorced by the owner of the Post, consoled by Lil- lian Hellman, the playwright Columbia is doing a picture, My Kingdom for a Cook" This Is a serio-comic tropical, but the basic situation Is not so funny. Insur- ance companies report, in their stodgy, realistic way, that an enor- nous increase in household acci- dents is the result of "amaateur labor" :. . By some weird reasoning that can be achieved only from rays that ricochet off brass buttons, Broadway is out of bounds for all former Broadway actors in uniform While the cast of "The Shark Was a Boojum" was dress-rehears- ing in New Haven until daylight, a sneak thief went through the hotel rooms and cleaned up. The house dick doesn't know whether to blame the snark, the boojum or the press agent.
 Few know that Capt. Bill Howard 3rd, new husband of Dorothy La- mour, is the eX-son-in-laW of Mrs. Lionel Atwill, who is the former wife of General MacArthur. She was Louise Cromwell, Jimmy's sister; her first husband was Walter Brooks, Baltimore society man They had daughter named Louise. She was Towards wife The storied Hope Diamond, property of Americas most famous hostess, Mrs. New Mclean, has been in hook at Simpsons more than once.
 Wherever the Nazis invade, they supply their soldiers with little language manuals. These cover simple everyday questions and an- swers concerning food, road, di- rections, etc., with phonetic Ger man translations ofg the native tongue. But in the Czech manual, the following two items appear, in succession: MT. Mayor, where = the municipal treasury?" MT. Mayor, you will be shot,"
 Humphrey Bogart says Uncle Sam is the finest boss in the screen busi- ness - had 300 actors in "This Is the Army" and picked up the op- tion on every one of them!