The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-08
Walter Wi1lclleII
In Nezg York

insiders hear that II the high
tax isn't lowered from night clubs
more than half here will fold next
week under the grise Of CLOSED for
Summer" Over 500 bottles of
costly hooch blew up at the Copley-
Plaza IN Boston. Too near heat. :.
Switch: Frank Sinatra is now try
ing to collect coin due him from
his former boss, T. Dorsey. Concern
ing bonds purchased from his sal
airy, etc. Comic Peter Donald's
baybee is back. She suddenly eloped
last year World Telly amuse-
ment editor Frank Farrell (now a
captain in the Marines) writes: al
most years in Guadalcanal. Pc
culiarly, I don't want to come
home, not yet anyway. I think it
would be pretty depressing for two
reasons: For what I would find
back there-and for what I would
miss out here "D-Day money
pools are terrific.
"The Final Hour" by Taylor Cald-
well fictitiously gives you the low
down on the obseructionists. Read
1t and grin. You can't miss fig
uring their real names Four
fires in the past week on 49th be-
TWEEN 9Th and 7th have the fire
inspectors cunning for suspects /.
What happens most times when you
peddle your car: Dealers remove
the body, put on a station wagon
and sell 1t for $500 profit At
ter upmty- EIGHT title attempts. 1.-THE
Love of Madam Sand" (Muni and
Oberon) Is the tax decided on {.
Al Jolson saw the rushes and
quipped: Sand, you made the pants
too long!" Baritone Edward
Rocker made Broadway after eight
long years and got good notices IN
Allah Be Praised" The day it
closed he got orders to report at
FIT. Dix Danny Kaye and Judy
Garland will back movie in which
they will star.
Anything for Publicity or How
Fascism Was Sold: The Herald Trib
for May 16, 1926, contains a photo
of two of our then most popular
movie stars giving the Mussolini
salute Vera Milton, former
ziegfeld girl, Is now at Wright
Aeronautical Pat" Patrick, re-
cent Copacabana eyeful (once Miss
Minnesota'), is now the bride of
artist Norman Trevour of Philly.
He's in the Army . Col. Cliff
Henderson has popped the query to
Cynthia Stone, Palm Beach publ
cist. She will decide over the week
end Director Mitch Leisen's fav-
orite here is Sunnie ODea of wall
flower" =. Mary Mcdonald, the
lovely dancer, may marry men,
Der of the famed Rotschild banking
tribe The Common Council for
American Unity has scolded Mr. An
thony for something he said.
The over 200 PERSONS on the
Stork staff include almost every
nationality and race in the world
among them Germans and one
American-Japanese The Lieut..
Bud Ernsts Of the Ferry Command
are threeing. She is Mary Pickford's
niece :. Frances Faye in H'wood is
carrying a conflagration for Barry
Mitchell Of Winged Victory" {.
Ray Bourbon starts at La Vie
Pariesienne Wedzdee Life edi-
tor T. Sanction got 1000 from the
Academy Of Arts and Letters for
his socko pieces on the South and
race question there. He's from Miss.
Seditoin trial counsel Laugh
Inns washington office prominently
displays photo of U. S. Senator
r. r. Reynolds. inscribed: ITO my
distinguished friend" Hmf 8.
George Prices Chicago agent asked
him how much he wanted to do
his act for the Real Estate Board
at the Hotel Stevens. He asked $500
Another got the job at $3.50
Martin Dies!
The Bristol Beaufighter is the
worlds most heavily armed fighter,
carrying four cannon and six ma