The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-04
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The Eendarmes have rounded. up
a mob Of nine Including gaD who
have been robplng men in uniform.
The femme was the lure :. George
M. Cohan's boy Is now marching to
his fathers "Over There" as a End
Lieut.. Nancy CAROLS arm
decoration is James Petit, the Bri-
fish dandy >. Kay Swift, socialite
and composer, married cowboy,
who was last seen here in the Ro-
dec at the Fair. They're parenting
an Oregon ranch, and her new book
about The Whole Thing is titled:
who Could Ask for Anything
More?" New York hotels have
been running at 90 per cent capacity
since Sept. . Fred Aliens sponsor
is dickering for Frank Sinatra, who
appreciates the Broadway epigram:
Get it while you're hot, you stay
cold long time!"
Helen Forrest, vocalist for Harry
James, is now "looker" since her
prettifying job on the coast :.
At the new Casablanca, due for
premiere any night, Phil Pages Or
chestra will do the sending. That's
the new monicker for Joe Candullo.
AL Smith may head a group
to try reconciling Tammany Hall
factions in a primary fight :.
They say a. dark horse for the Re-
publics is Eric Johnson, prexy Of
the u. S. Chamber of Commerce
which probably explains all the
recent press agentry -. Vera Shea,
one of the dolls in the chorus, has
quit the bright lights for the adj
vertising biz.
DIR. Paul SchwarZs eX-German
consul (until fired by Hitler for be-
ing anti-NazD, has finished his
book on Ribbentrop, covering the
sinister background of the former
champagne peddler Ed Stanley,
ex-AP photo editor, has quit the
owl :. . Tammany leader A. Mari
nelli has a 70-year old American
Jap butler named Toky, who starts
the day every ayem by louding sing
ing GOD Bless America. The an
noyed neighbors then see him kiss
Oil 6AIllC1 lCdkl 41d61 WAAASlA 1AO HeF-p
from his window {. E.. Harrison Rob-
erts, the AP photogger who got
into a jam over those enormously
captioned war (actually training)
pictures, a rumored to have joined
the Fighting French His net
work bosses will stand by Gene
Krupa.
Passport to Treason" an exciting
new book about Nazi spies over here
Mcbride is the publisher) Is auth
ored by Alan Tynd :. Among other
things we never knew till we read
it is this: with the arrest of Fritz
Duquesne and the 80 others, Kurt
Frederick Ludwig, the leader Of the
remaining spy ring which had been
under surveillance for more than
three months now, got the filters.
Walter Winchell broke the story OF
the arrest of 80 spies on his Sun
day night program. Ludwig hap
pened to be in his rooming house
in Brooklyn at the time, and i'm
mediately fter Wincheus an
nouncement, he was seen to come
out and head for the home OF his
blonde assistant, Lucy Boemler, IN
Maspeth, Long Island.
Gwen before Ludwig got there,
Hans Pagel and Karl Mueller had
driven to Helen Mayors house
(where Ludwig and Lucy wenD {.
Pagel and Mueller had been driving
along the New York waterfront
when Winchell came on the air at
nine o'clock. Apparently they had
been listening to him on their car
radio, for G-men in a car follow
ing them, who were also listening to
Walter, noticed the machine OF the
waterfront boys coming to sudden
stop when he broke the news. the
car had remained at a standstill
until Winchell finished telling about
the spies Then it started with
a. jerk and sped to Helen Mayors
house"
In a forthcoming film called 1.-THE
Night Is Ending" Ga Goth Century
Fox picture) Marcel Dalio and Ma
releine LeBeau will appear :.
They once were man and wife :.
He was a big star in France and
they came here as refugees -. They
were poisoned in HOLLYWOOD" as
the cynics out there put 1t, and fin
ally got to the divorce court Both
will get their big opportunity IN