The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-12
MAN ABOUT TOWN

The Charlie Chaplins' intimates
are already congratulating them on
The event scheduled for early 1914
Marlene Dietrich and Jean
Cabin, stopping at the Ritz Tow
ers, await foreign assignments. But
persistent reporters could get a
better front pager It's girl
doll for the Mark Warnows at Doc
tors Hosp. He's the Hit Parade
maestro. Shes the former Helen
MCGOWAN Locals suspect John
Jacob Astor 3rds next bride will
be Lillian Moore, recipient of his
latest diamond bracelet Mrs.
Phil Harris (Alice Faye will sfelve
the films in the near future to await
another image . They say Time
Life publisher Luce will again sup
port Willkie, who backed Mrs. Luce
for Congress Victor Moore is
rumored to have settled 100000 on
his bride, % year old Shirley Page
D.. Robert Thomas, son of Van
damn, the photographer, and Carol
Wheeler of Life With Father will
merge about Labor Day Lou
Holtz says Hollywood is a great place
if you have lots of friends-in a
bank.
Add pre- convention predictions:
Connecticut for Roosevelt; Gov.
Baldwin for Willkie on the COP
side . Rhode Island for Roose-
welt and Dewey Massachusetts:
State Chairman Burke is for Farley,
but the party is badly divided j..
Boston's Mayor Tobin playing it
cozy-aiming for governorship on
the Democratic side; Gov. Sal
tonstall will be the favorite son
candidate and he'll settle for COP
Vice PREF Vermont: Only Dem
ccrats there are New Dealers. COP
will pledge to Sen. Aiken i. Maine:
Battle cry is Maine for Roosevelt
and Churchill on the successful
prosecution of the war;" If the
war is on FDR will win Maine
Otherwise it'll 60 for Willkie.
Speaker Sam Rayburn stopped
the investigation of the Wallace
Jones row Jones is a Garner
tor-Vlce-preZ rooter His severest
critic allege that Farley skipped
away" for the Bird consecutive year
directly before the New York State
Primaries - to test of strength on
his leadership The indictment
of Nazi agent Warner F. Trinler
land the discovery of his Swiss pass
port) will keep the G-Men after
other neutrals here who think they
have immunity After months
Gas suspected) producer John Wild
berg and his bride, recently on the
Chicago Sun amusement staff, have
drifted Despite priorities, ra-
tioning, ETC., the order for the new
5ears-Roebuck catalogue is for seven
million copies UShers at LoeW's
Lexington shush patrons who hiss
neWsreel shots - even of those
Staten Island spies.
Boner Dept: Critic Wolcott Gibbs
(of the New Yorker) an issue or two
ago said in his report that "Those
Endearing Young Charms" was a
solo venture by Edward Chodorov"
>. Gibbs added that the solo ven
ture' suggested that its author
might have been happier working
again with his usual collaboration.
Mr.. (Joe) Fields, and adapting some
book written by somebody else"
The mays same number on Page
Two (under the list of plays reveals
Joe Fields usual collaboration is not
Ed ChodorOv, but his brother, Jer-
ONE Critic Gibbs, you see, is
the one who needs a collaboration.
Mrs. FDR is holidaying at the
Nevada Ranch with daughter Anna
Also in the vicinity is Anna Rur-
gen, one of the editors of Harper's
Bazaar. One of the equerries to the
Maharajah of Indore Ga major in
the Hindu army is giving her the
beeg rush And isn't that Paul
Abbott nearby? He's director of the
Modern Museum of Art :. His COW
gal pal there is a Hampstead, L. I.
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