The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-04
TALES or THE TOWN

A Cmlc8kO DoOk CkAtAC WoO AAoO chairman of the city's library system. which recommended good tonnes The author clicked with out his help He had the feel- ing. however, that this critic never even read his stuff One day, after the critic went so far as to say he didn't recommend a new book (hy the author) to the library board, the author wrote him: T wonder If you would consider chang ing your opinion. In the next printing my publishers will elimin- ate the illicit love angle you ob- jected to- The critic replied: That will be fine. am sure the board will like it that way" . The author promptly wrote back: Thanks. That's what I wanted to find out. There isn't now and never was any Illicit love affair in my book. merely wanted to make sure that you never read it!"
 For many years Rachel Field worked in Paramount'S New York office as a script reader, examining the merit of all submitted material
 She once remarked: Hmf, l can do better than some of this stuff. Some day I'm going to write one and see it made into a Para mount film" Years after, she finished her first best-seller; "All This and Heaven, Too" The roy alties and prestige were tremendous, but Rachel'S ambition was not yet fulfilled. The book was filmed by Warmers Last year she wrote And Now Tomorrow'-and died shortly after-before the agent sold it To Paramount.
 They tell you 1t actually happened. I dunno .. He was managing edi- tor for New York syndicate. Now with OWI .. Several years ago a comic strip was submitted to him. He liked it. Recommended 1t for syndication The boss to whom he delivered it took it home Next day he memo'd 1t wouldn't do. The kids he showed it to didn't care for it, he said The young cartoonistS were disappointed, of course They finally got their strip started in cheap comic week. ly = for practically nothing per week Every year they brought it back to the m. e., who liked it, but he couldn't get it on his chain The boss still didn't like it.
 Another syndicate made an off, fer, but the boys gave the m. C. another chance They were turned down .. It now crosses $5,- 900 per week via royalties from newspapers, radio and gadget mak- CTS The first syndicate boss who spurned 1t so many times. de- manded to know what happened. :. The strip Is the renowned Super man..
 She was the reticent type A beauty in her time Loved her studies and the cultural things |. AS she grew older she developed her knowledge of the classics and arts. t. When her girl pals guShed over some matinee idol she "tsk-tsk'd'' and never saved photos of stage or screen favorites Spent a lot lot of time adding to her collection of operatic and symphonic records .. After her first year of mar xiage . son was born .. While other women named their boys after Rudy VaIlee or Valentino, she started planning for the day her son would become an engineer Her name? S. Natalie sinatra. ~s
 His life ambition was to be a name bandleader ... Studied almost every instrument .. He finally be- came one of the great arrangerS, in- stead He couldn't front" for a band, it seems <. Wasn't the type, the agents said /. So he was hired as head arranger for well known orchestra The leader of which was a front man" because he looked 1t This front man could never read a note of music. but he had a baton mans per- sonality," whatever that is Each performance the arranger stood backstage and saw the Header" take the bows for his work c.. Not long ago the arranger (who knows near every tnStrument) was inducted Because of his musical background, by golly. he was made army band leader, 6 commission due soon. The bandleader front man was drafted a few weeks ago .. You guessed it He's 8 private in the in- fantry - still trying to keep in time!
 You hear all kinds of explanations on how the famed gatecrasher One Eyed Connolly" got that name . This Is new to us The current character. they say, Is not the orig inal The original, a hard-boiled vagabond, died about 30 years ago -. That One-Eyed fellow (unable to crash the gate at big fight in Chicago) climbed to the roof and threw a brick through the skylight <. It landed in the ring near the S.a@aWaA oIrA A a~akA-, Aa..rvl. z,ss, ,v,I. n