The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-21

Ihe aeAeh~rattlo or La We EA~ Eislenne, a coxy little night club in the heart og tho rtam-and-rhunlba belt, was an authentic echo of bs1sl- ness as it is often conducted around that incredible, lndescrible Raney none called Broadway. When our impatient Mayor cracked down and ordered the works auctioned off. ht developed that the liquor was morteaEed, the piano was rented, the outfit owed everybody and didn't even have a bank account. Yet this was e going concern, and might have kept going indefinitely. had not the city taken over its receipts for back sales taxes Operating on a frayed shoestring is the nor- mal status of thousonds along the Dizzy Diagonal. Yet these thou. sands eat and drink and love and live and keep on going, sometimes paying, from hand to mouth, until somebody with no sense of humor gets tough and technical. Then they are suddenly going, going-gonel
 Customers' men for bookinakers and cket-shoppers; agents who make nickels by introducing hams to other agents, operate in public telephone booths and carry sand wiches in their frayed trousers; acc tors who haven't worked in years. yet who not only have hope. but swear they will never flower their standard" of salaries paid them in the foggy past. when vaudeville was biz business; animal trainers, acro- bats, iugglers. wire-walkers, pitch- men, prestidigitators and washed-up pugs, all steadfastly refusing to be- come walters or window-washets, congregate, chew over the good old days and tell each other NEXT season-you just wait and see! Yet they exist somehow. unaffected by conditions which touch the lives oi the rest Of us.
 And as long as no one suddenly calls them to specific and imme- tiate account-Glley remain going concerns.
 sFollow the Girls" showlass Norma Amigo and Michael OShea were looking for a preacher when last seen Since Ruth Weston splil with Ted Trevor, the No. l man seems to be her personal manager,
 Barbara Evans and liquor man sam Sokol a nightly Monte Carlo combo Lovely Mrs. Dulaney Hunter, in an all-black gown, dln- ing with Cmdr. Rodman Wanamak- CT, in his immaculate whites It. Russell, of the Air Corps. proud ly escorting his mother. Mrs. Ethel 4 Bordenu Hartman, another hand" some couple.
 Rosel Hyde, he's a Republican, VII fill the vacancy on the FCC The Dewey-Hull duel and other tac' tors highlignting postwar problems have boonled the sale Oi Louif Nizers timely tome What to DC With Germany" .. Washington mas quietly approved plans for lend lease with Italy, long-range pro gram to rehabilitate that country when it gets a stable government and the shooting is over The busting Of former Philippine Resi' dent Commissioner Elizalde tSpan- ash-horn - who became a Philip pine citizen after the founding oi fl:e Commonwealth in i935) and re' placing him with Col. Carlos Ro. mulos indicates the new president Rergio Osmena, will clean the Spail' sgh influence out of Philippine poll ticys. Qlezon. half spanish. put 6panlards many not citizens, in key posts. within a week, full-bloodeo posts. within week, osmena, sulI' blooded Oriental. fired half of them
 KHaliyEoeEia; Peggy Fears, play- ang the Cal-Neya Lodge at Lake Ta' hoe, Northern California. and draw sng trade from as far away as Los