The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-16
TAlRa OF TnE TnWN


 This sesrS ls dedicated to labor b iters everywhere His name is Jose Martinez, 50.year old member of the National Maritime Union. .. He Is guilty of absenteeisIn, and he will be absent for @ long, long time .. We think the Congressmeii now framing antl.labor bills should know about it.
 Martinez sailed as fireman on a ship that was torpedoed -. Alter 10 days in c hfeboat with eleven cher seamen he was rescued .. When Jose came ashore no newsreel men or reporters came to interview him. Nobody asked him his views on anything Even had he been asked what he thought ot things he wouldn't have said much. He was a quiet sort Of guy, who didn't blow his horn After resting few weeks in a Baltimore hospital, and feeling that he wasn't doing enough to help win the war, he went to the Baltimore branch of the Red Gross and gave a pint of his blood.
 Then Jose sailed in convoy to Murmansk. For eight days 1t was bombed. The ship he was on was hit, but it made port. Then. after returning to the U. S.. he shipped out again, and this time the ship he was on was sunk, and Jose was lost with 1t The other day the National Maritime Union reported that Jose Martinez, who had no liv- ing kin, had made the Red Cross beneficiary of his insurance policy ... Tn the sum of 5000.
 "OklahOma," the towns best musl- cal show, crashed the Broadway heavens the other night without the aid of a single name" in the cast .. Excluding, of course, the stager (Rouben Mamoulian) and the adapter and composer (Oscar Ham, merstein II and Richard Rodgers) Passing the St. James theater few Gays ago. one of the colyum's observers noticed that painters were at work--revising the billing out front.
 "Hmmm." he hummmd, "a star Is being born"
 He waited around to sec which names of the talented troupe were to be rewarded But none of the cast was decorated.
 The names being painted in huge letters were those of Theresa Hel- burn and Lawrence Langner :. rheater Guild exccutivesl
 A ranking glamour gal was being interviewed by a fan magazine wri- ter q understand" said the tn- terviewer, that your fiance has been drafted. How do you manage to live without him2 You probably have had to make a most difficult adjustment"
 "Oh," said the doll, T managed to make an adjustment, all right. I joine1 the Book-of-the-Month Club"
 Although this Is only April, the outstanding understatement of l043 has already been made, and there's hardly 8 chance that 1t will be toppCd AS everyone knows, the Soviet Union assigned l60 cameras
 
 with the instructions to get pie lures which would show the world exactly what a day of war was like on the Eastern Front More than thirty of the lensmen were killed on the job, while their com rade0 turned in stuff so brilliant that the March of Time took 1t over and issued 1t in this country under the title of "One Day of War Russia, l943" The film has been acclaimed everywhere as the greatest document to emerge from the war" But the manager Of the Paramount theater in Dewey, Okla. (queried by Motion Picture Herald for its department, What the Picture Did for Me'D, merely observed: "It's an entertaining two- reel subject"
 Salvador Dali is telling about the fellow who went away on a trip and promised buddy to bring back parrot But he couldn't find one, and rather than disappoint the friend he bought an owl and had 1t pdAuCCu BAGCH OSFCAd WCcho later he asked the pal how the par rot was getting along Well" was the rctort, The doesn't do much talking, but he certainly does a lotta thinkingl"
 This happened in London's Bottle Club not many years ago The swank spot was fussy about the people permitted In 1t All who entered were required to sign their signatures to its famed autograph collection A noted writer came in with Q girl for a nip After the author signed his name, he in- vited her to sign hers |. Eyebrows lifted. and there was great conster- nation among the flunkieg-for she was A nOh0dy = and thu 0roat rol.