The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-23

Two news flashes on Clark Gable:
He will soon be Major. He wants
to remain in the Army and quit all
pictures forever, except official serv-
Ice pictures Guests at Buck
ingham Palace, Windsor Castle or
other royal residences in England
are requested 10 turn their ration
books in to tho housekeeper If they
remain longer than over a weekend
Ralph Bellamy walks UP "a
flights in the Ritz Tower every
morning after breakfast to keep In
trim Loud wailings from Labor
will have no effect on the Ricken-
hacker film story, which will be sub
titled "The Story Of an America.
There will be no reference to his
trip to Russia or to his recent state
ments-story ends with his rescue
in the Pacific.
Hot from Hollywood: Ernest Lu-
bitsch has that touch" for Mary
Anita Loos, who has whitfield off
better than 20 pounds because he
AAhSo 400 VI liSl iioiC oUIl
in the Caravan, booked to hit Is
key cities for the War Loan, are
yelling murder. The schedule is too
tough Victor Mature is boil
ing mad at Rita Hayworth. He not
only heard Of her dancing with
some Of Hollywood's best wolves, but
claims that she misplaced some
valuable papers he had entrusted
with her when he went to sea :.
The heads of his studio don't talk
to Enrol Flynn. But they do send
notes. One that awaited him was
about his Mexican mixup with the
girl who had head on her Shout
derS"; another was to this effect:
And don't you dare publish that
book that you wrote"
Sue Ryan, Ziegfeld Follies COM
edienne, has been taking Spanish
lessons backstage from Senior
Wences. Recently she got her first
chance to try out what she had
learned on Castilian diplomat. He
fled, blushing and Mortified. Wences
had been deceiving the lady on
some Of the idiom :. The Three
Sisters, CHS vocalists, live on 40
foot cabin cruiser anchored in the
Hudson +. Bette Davis, in THANK
Your Lucky Stars" will sing her
first screen song. They're Either
Too Young or Too Old"-sounds
more like Sophie Tucker
Matty Fox, Universal v. p spends
his evenings with Bonnie Nolan
Naval hero Bill Crawford, heavily
decorated, Storks it with Nancy Mae
Woodbury. ;. Lieut.. Phil Cochrane
dating Barbara Evans :. Something
brewing between George Trommer
and Conover model Blanche Grady
Frank Vincent, who manages
Rita Hayworth, Cary Grant, etc.,
was quietly divorced in Reno :.
John Jacob Aston gives cigarette
girls $40 tips.
The ultimate In unionization APP
pears on the Blind Date" air pro-
gram. The script requires that
CIlc DllIlO QdIc NoOlulcI VI odllOI lIOIll
canteen) knock three times on
prop door, to meet the girl. For this
the union insists that sound man
be hired. AS yet there has been no
demand for overtime Mirror
men are tops In the all-gab air
show field. Hooper ratings put Wal
ter Winchell No. 1 and Can You
Top This?" with Harry Hersh-
field No. 2.
1t will surprise a lot Of New
Workers to know Bedloe's Island, on
which the Statue Of Liberty stands
in New York Harbor, is part Of the
State Of New Jersey. Look in the
Jersey City phone directory :. !
Father Divine" In his house organ,
not only capitalizes the first letter
of the personal pronoun to designate
himself, such as He, His, Him, but
capitalizes the whole words - HE
IJJC HIM