The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-08
Walter WincIaeII M NezC YOrk

tttcAS bSot ptptSAGp Au JUS u3ttY uu1~ form on a furloaf - being shown the midnight spots by Fred Stones Paula, whose groom Duke Daly, Is probably over Berlin again drop ping block-busters Eleanor Holm, an expert at cards, winning elOO from the Stork Club owner. She Gin-R -Rommel'd him Theory on why the mugger campaign in Har- lem Is . flops Detectives are too well dressed. They work in pairs. Hang out on corners. They phone in from corner police boxes. Prac- tlcally wearing their badges on their ties.
 Tn PetrOuchka" at the Met Opera House, leading role is handled by Adolf Bohm, who danced 1t in the original production B years ago. During an engagement in Salt Lake City he broke his back and hadn't danced that role since. He is now 59 Bea Mathews, a former chor- inc, Is now in Star and Garter" daugbling as Gypsy Rose Lees un- derstudy. Her groom, Herb Caen, San Francisco collumnist, is now an aviation cadet at Yale Column ist George Fisher of Hollywood will be claimed by the army in June. His wife, Mica Doret, inherits a role in Mervyn LeRoy's picture, Russia" The principals of the suddenly closed Dancing in the Streets" show (shuttered eight weeks for revision) will mark time in local night spots. The Boston reviewers were luke warm to the show starring Mary Martin, but 1t did a healthy trade.
 You think you have troubles? What about the poor florists, who groan about the boutonniere busi- ness falling off2 Dandies, 1t seems, are Self-conscious about fea- turing posies In their lapels when 90 many other fellers are wearing caIn- paign ribbons .. When Jane Fro- man is completely mended from the Lisbon plane crash, her initial date is at the Riobamba where she owes two weeks Joyce Mathews, who is Mrs. M. Berle, will not be in Rich. ard Kollnar'S production, Early to Bed" She decided against the offer with this cryptic explanation: "I'd have to quit in Q few months, anyway" .. Well, may all their Joyce be Boyce .. The cast of the touring Noel Coward show, Private Lives" are betting that its two stars will remarry |. Frank Sinatra, the thrush, will be heard at the Para mount in May, salary $2,500 That's what they call skyrocketing.
 None of us who draped the Cotton Club ringside in Harlem ten years ago ever thought the theme song there cSto7ny Weather'C would bring $50,000 from Hollywood just for its title $35, 900 purchased a half interest in the Hurricane night club recently Some readers com- plained about our recent trivia that McSorley's Al House in Greenwich Village doesn't use a cash register. It uses a saucer in which you drop your money. Readers claimed it was inaccurate We wish they'd go there and see for themselves and stop wasting all those stamps.
 If you wondered what became of Ballerina Maria Gambarelli, she $ lectIring to women workers in West Coast defense plants Zorina played to 800 standees at the Met, the most mixed audience (largely Broadway the famed opry house ever had The actors ap- bearing at the camp shows now wear a natty uniform-blue gray The dancer who survived that plane crash in which her husband periShed is back and weighted 1 down with the miSeries They were just getting "the breaks"-l having made a film together in | Hollywood. She could have signed | B contract without him. but she re- fused that. No she feels all is | gone - her devoted husband, her career and her heart He might l have lived. too But he was in charge of all the entertainers pass ports And after helping his | wife and others to escape from the wreckage. he went back to re- ,r1eve the visaS-and drowned.
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