The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-19
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NnAFAA mOntez and Jean Pierre Aumont shortly will announce can- cenatton of their planned merger with attendant exploitation .. Peggy Fears has been comforting with her barristers regarding a final break with A. c. Blumenthal, the Mexican Gloria Jean, Universal's 16-year old diva, will be in the next edition of Who's Who" Doris Fleeson, the reporter, will be rov- ing European war correspondent for Woman'S Home Companion .. :. Dorothy Thompson took time out from world affairs to do her trouS- seau shopping at Saks Fifth Avenue last week . Charles Boyer's nose had an operation . Earl Dancer and the mother of the Nicholas Brothers lave blended Harry Richman and Eileen Shirley of the Copacabana have recalled their am- bassadorS [. Lucky Beatrice Kay. Her maid gives her every other Thursday off Gertrude Niesen is liable to become countess :. :. Helen Hayes home in Nyack, New York, is called "A Pretty Penny.
 Of all things! Peter Arno, who decided not to do that musical yet, has returned all the money to the packers! . Elisabeth Bergner will appear in 'The Second Mrs. Car roll," melodrama. Ran two years in London years ago .. The night club owners who complain about rationing should remember how many years they've complained about there being no money in food Matter of fact, they make more coin now with rationing since the dinners are la carte, the portions are smaller and the prices are the same, If not higher The Will liam StanleyS (she's Eve Hummer of the Follies) will be three this year Life mag in its recent night club layout called the Stork Club "the worlds most famous night club" Life conducted separate poll with special investigators be- fore calling it that.
 Lieut.. Juanita Redman (she es- caped from Bataan with MacAr- thur) has been notified that her book, T Served on Bataan," is in its 5th printing Jim Lackey and Marion Wright will merge Federal attorneys have been ordered to crack down hard on OPA viola tors. No fines-stiff prison sentences ... One hundred and fifty yearly lessees at a hotel Gin the sos on the West Side) have had their rentals jumped 25 per cent, and the OPA is powerless . Nylons are $6 per pair in the midwest - $5 here =. The recurrent shortages in sugar, coffee, meat, potatoes, etc., are be- ing manipulated by well financed racketeers, who have moved in al- most exclusively on Black Market profits . Many prize fighters are getting away from the draft be- cause of bad ears Fortune tellers in cafes are coining fortunes. Mainly from youths who are anxious about their future. At one time the clairvoyant sets only source of rev. enu0 was from people who wanted inside dope on their love life.
 Al Waters was British correspon- dent here for the London Times Through some error he was drafted into the British Army. He's now private in Atlantic City :. Mad eleine Carroll and Nelson Eddy lived near each other in Hollywood for years and never met until intro duced at the Satire Room the other night .. Sign of the Times: One armed doormen at several hotels and apartment houses An odd side light on the meat situation: Two years ago the United States con- fiscated 10000 Russian -Manchurian cartridges and squabs, brought here by a Jap boat. The U. s. took it all over for unpaid duty-put it on ice-and sold iti the other day to local restaurants and hotels to re- lieve the meat shortage T. Louis Selden, editor of Alliance Books asked for immediate induction and couldn't get it. The day wasn't a with the examining psychiatrist's 1uSC mdnuSCrlpt.
 "Comin' in on Wing and Prayer" is still good, but. don't you recog- nice half is Jingle, Jangle" and the other section is "They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree? Maybe nobody was lookin' Don't get fresh, boy. Those leather carrying bags slung oyer the shoulders of WAAC MPs are filled with heavy books-for swinging purposes :.