The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-17
Walter WincheII
 M Nez0 YOrk

speet tho script of the old Thcda Bara hit, "A Fool There WaS"--hl which Marlene Dietrich may star, Shuhert Alley Is agog over . new conner (22 years old) who wants to become a producer. Ills father Just handed hhm Sb0,000 Bogart is driving his director nutg, He play fully put on Q Roosevelt button, As'd Q scene was taken showing it--un- til 1t was discovered ,,, One os the movie magS has Q candid shot of Lana Turner and Frank SinatrN, which Is causing more howls than that famous ciggie cd did years aSo,
 Richard Dyer -Rcnnet, who jumped from the Village Vanguard Gin Greenwich Village) to Town Hall last Spring--leaps into Carn0giS Hall for Q solo concert on the 18th It. Col, Jack Kofoed (after i7 months overseas) soon resumes his essays aS Q civilian. He will write for the John Knight papers in Akron Miami and Detroit
 Mary Jane Lawson saw this sign ln front of R Justice of the Peace of. flee in Florida: "You furnish tue bride - weW do the restl" .,
 Huhp By next week the oW1 will have turned over Nll distribI' ton of U. s, films in France to the major film firms ., 0odles of press agents claim their clients may got the lead in "rhe Robe, Joan Fontaine appears to have the Inside track At the Henry Hudson Bar some Broadwayites were dlS, cusSlng the possibility of movie oa Dewey's life, Qagwriter NJ, RagAwAy suggested the title; "1'he perlls os Pawling,"
 Longtime Republican snowman Max Gordon haS switched to Roose- velt "Tho Merry Widow" which Is cleaning up at the City Center earned over $300000 for It's bOekers In Il seven.week road tour betorl returning to town ., Morton Dow nCy has ngnln turned down S4,000 per week to appear in Paul Sm0lS new revue, Pun Time" now la preparation !. There is Q haG about town claiming kinShip to President Wilson's No. 1 adVlso. Cafe society folk allege being "tNS. en" yh him .. It, David Hopkins, son of Harry Hopkins, two years overseas, has been assigned Co tue film division (Washington) to 0S- SiSt Capt. Gene Markey .. , Ruth Nelson, who played tho first Nus, Wilson in the picture about tho late President, has ben rewarded by zNnuek With H new long-terni contract ,,,. StepC flanagan, AGs nio Sheridans feller, Is Ill,
 One of the nations top movie couples Is using oil the money they make via radio programs tguestlne) to pny off a flock of old debts BdwinR Heeht, Ben HeehtS dotter, has Shelved editing South American mNgS to write for M1M ,.. The lovely front cover Of tao Oct. Life Story mag S Claire WindGors grandson, How tempUS docs fugit, Clairel .. Beautitui Rosemary Robson, only 10, Is in the Copa show, She was picked as the eountry'S Most Beautiful Baby SlA years ago Proof that the fil lumS have grown up is that nV studio has . college picture listed for this Fall Add.ltems- -thNt-eNn't' walt, Surveys show men smoke tholr eigs one-third shorter than gels do
 Billy Rose has been nursing the idea Of his next show. "The ! Lively Arts" for i5 years Only abouS one half tb4 per eenD Of ReadefR Digest is actually dieested from in. dependent mags and newspapers 1, Detroit tyeoons expect to Sel 7ia million cars R year for the nuH' ten years .- aS compared with s. million in 1920 -- the all.tlme high -. Two of the 10 Stars of Tomor' row (eloeted by exhibitors for Me. ton Picture Herald) are Sidney dreenstreet and Barry FitSgerRll, Both are over co =. It would take e year of bookings for Tommy Dol. sey to make up the cancelled en. agreements that brawl cost hls band, Lost two films and commercial over it -, Sinatra is oof1y sore al tho network which deleted scheduled d remarks by Jack Benny about hLp visit to tho White House Blil Shirer can't get over the fact tha' it took longer for him to train from New York to Chicago than 1t did to fly from London to N. Y..,
 You can say what you like about the foreign policy tand eoddling Of Russla), but for every eommy wh9 quits the .iine--an American