The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-17
nrFngos oF A MIDNToHTER

nsEAaOs OF A MIDNIGHTER
Broadway hears that Maude Ad-
ans (the First Lady Of the stage
Tor decades), now teaching drama ct
Stevens College, may be "diSpos-
sessed" to make room for q
hollywood star Douglas Fair
banks widow wishes folks would
stop calling her Lady Ashley Z.
Carl BrisSons fortune in Yurrop
ESTIMATED at $700,000) Is lost. Re-
pated TO have $250,O00 sailed here.
/. MRS. Ernest Hemingway MAR
tina Gelhorn) Is here to see pub
Usher Scribner's about her tome
"liana" The Air Force show
has over-auditioned soldier candi-
dates, Many will lhave to be dropped
:. Mary Churchill, the Prime
Minister'S little girl, has been Of
fered u per word to write mag
piece A Broadwayite back from
palkar reports that Bing Crosby and
Harry James recordings get "a per
platter land pack of gumu get
cha any gal in town."
my Heart Tells Me-" from the
Rosie O'Grady" picture, stays in
the ears Other new good nlts
are Secretly" and "Close to You,".
~. Celeste Holm OF Oklahoma" is
doubling at La Vie Parisienne with
her sinful songs. A hit The
Roney Plaza at Miami Beach will
be headquarters for s. American
dignitaries The disappearance
Of big bills has the underworld wor-
ried - as most transactions are in
big cash. Mr.. WhiSkers is gradually
calling them in d. The song plug
ers' golf tournament featured golf
balls on which likenesses of "the
most hated band leaders" were
painted :. The rumorS of a George
Jessel-June Lang romance put a
certain Army major In stitches down
IN washington. He knows it's the
bunk =. The return of Gilda Gray
Is good news. Oofly III for long
spell Doris Donaldson won a
I Floridivision.
Sonny Tufts, the newcomer to the
films land good in $50 Proudly We
HairD, Is "cut up" into more Sec
tons than F. Sinatra -. If the Bar
Assn report Is made public about
THE balance Of power" In local poll
tics the trains will be jammed
with waShed-up politicos Local
draft boards are already putting the
work-or-fight ultimatum into no.
tees mailed to pre-Pearl Harbor
paters :. Previewers report Dan
gerous Blondes" Columbia pic
as a sleeper" that will go big
VIM. Benswanger, prexy OF the
Pittsburgh Pirates, writes the pro-
gram notes for the Pittsburgh SYM
phony H. j. Coleman OF the
owl Is the author of buttons Give
Us Little Smile, Baby" Phil
Spitalny will add Is gals to his cast
Of so If the plane reservation
man says you're an IS. B." he
means you're Stand My.
Xavier Cugat has joined King
Features Syndicate with series of
caricatures titled "Today's Birth
day" Insiders hear that doc
tors have told Gypsy Rose Lee to
give up her stage career and write
instead AL White, the dance
director Of shows. is out OF the
Army via q medical discharge
Major Hal Leyshon Qormer Miami
EDITOR, now abroad with the 9th
Air Force, has aut'd a tome titled;
"Skyways to Berlin Rita Hay
worth's boss gave her a $1,000 silver
dinner service as a wedding gift
The Moss Hart show will have
q formal similar to THE American
Way" which he co-auth'd Kid
Goodman, once a lightweight con-
tender, is in the hack line in front
OF the Eldorado. He fought Benny
Leonard The new satire, Chi
cago Blueprint" by John l.. Balder-
ston (KnopO Is an indictment OF
that Chicago rag :. Dusty Farnum
is Powers latest darling. She's the
lS-year old daughter OF Dustin Far
mum, one-time idol. In New York
only fortnight and a sensation al
ready.
Marguerite Adams, the new MGM
starlet, was Tommy Adams. who
show-girl'd here . Beginning OF
the End Dept: Frances Faye is
trying TO get out of her Artists and
Models" contract - poor billing
Yvonne Hummer, the Diamond
Horseshoe lass, inherited all OF Mary
Dowells male fans A chlorine
who got a 5000 fur coat from her
gentleman friend had to give 1t back
when his Mrs. went on a rampage
The Zanzibar walters made a
mint" when Zanzibar won and paid
$3.50. The clubs press agents, who
tipped them off, didn't play 1t
James Mckinley Bryant was in
Quoted Just as his scheen test with
Fox was okayed &. Big city small
town flavor: Near 40th and Park
there are twenty different kinds
of vegetables growing next to the
Princeton Club -. The check room
galy In an East Side spot (beater
up once by some TO the joints staff
viii cause the downfall of the man.
agement via the Dist Attorney.
Dor Clark. now with kiss anc
y Tell" in Chicago, has the movie
scouts nibbling -. Kate Smith will
spotlight old time stage and screen
pets on her new radio show which
tees off Oct. LIST General Motors
will feature new car after the wal
at $500 The model will be or
exhibition in Radio City New Years
Day Rumors have Howard
Hughes and Henry Kaiser feudine
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