The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31
BROADWAY BALLADS

BROADWAY BALLADS
THESE we're the tokens of a brighter
The Palace on a Monday after
The golden names that famed and
died away 49,.
The haunting vibrance OF a musty
But Time has placed its mark upon
the clan
Who ruled the Street that no one
really knows
And We can only look In vain for
Pan
who must have known the show
was bound to close;
50 there Is sadness as the rain
comes down
And furtive tears for all that
now Is past ...
A. evening falls upon the gilded
town
And lightning streaks and skies
are overcast;
And yet who knows . another
dawn may bring
A shining sun a redder rose to
flingl
DON VAIN
Faces in the Night: Captain Don
Gentle the hero, and His Man
Godfrey being idolized at the Latin
Quarter Governors Green and
Dempsey of Illinois and New Mexico
in Chez Stork Dudley Digges
OF the Theater Guild Set attract
ing respectful glances from the
show folks In the Cub Room {.
Tony DeMarco and General r.
Johnsons pretty wife doing his
amusing routine ("Mixing the
Salad'D, a smooth bit OF rhumba
footwork Marquis George Nc
Donald of Palm Beach swapping
smalltalk with Andrew Jergens OF
Cincinnati in the Waludorf-Astoria
Towers foyer Colonel Vincent
Sheean. the novelist, with his
charming wife. depressed little
about the goingS-on Of certain
pseudo Americans E. d. Anne o.
Hare Mccormick, the N. Y. Times
esSayist, who makes sense -. Lord
and Lady Halifax strolling on Park
avenue with Secret Service men
as shadows.
Sallies in Our Alley: Fred Allen
says he never realized how terrible
the 30 per cent night club tax
was until he looked into one on
sand Street last hight 1T was
so empty" said Fred, that passers-
by thought 1t was a Gerald l.. K.
Smith for-PreSident Headquarters!
Overheard in the Blue News
room: what Is wrong with sending
a cruiser to a friend who has helped
keep the enemy from sending a
Fleet to us?"
HAPPY Ending: At Elsa Maxwell's !
apartment the other night the guest
Of honor was Rep. Glare Luce i
Among the many distinguished peo-
pie was Dorothy Thompson, with
whom Glare snapped opinions out
loud during the last Presidential
campaign Mrs. Luce spellbound
the crowd with an impromptu
speech, reporting how nearly all
present played part In her excit-
ing life In her tribute to Miss
Thompson, Glare affectionately
Quipped The warp and wool of my
life Is In this room. In fact, Dor
othy Is the woof-woof!"
Mem00 Of q Midnighter: The
Philco-Variety program, Off for the
Summer, resumes in the Fall i
The Jennifer Jones divorce plan Is
static -. Summer Storm" new
flicker. Is the talk of the industry.
wondering how 1t passed the censor.
It features Topic A." with Linda
Darnell a.. Frank Kingdoms book,
That Man in the White House"
is No. 3 on the best seller list. i
The Moro Morales orchestra returns
to the Stawk after a Summer sea-
son at the Concord Hotel, upstate.
Dolores, the Havana Madrid
hatcheck gal, Is the adored of a
Santo Domingo diplomat In
ternAl Revenuers are checking big
bettors at the tracks Midtown
is buzzing about the demotion of a
General who gabbed about the IN
vasion with pals at London bar.
He's back here The numbers
racket has taken a topple. The
racket bosses have stopped buying
silk shirts.
Midtown Vignette: It reads corny
and all that sortathing, but 1t hap
pened In the park the other after
noon :. The wife Of a soldier and
their very little girl were strolling
-. The child. about 3, hadn't seen
her father for six months She
broke away from her mothers hand
and ran to a corporal, clutching at
his coat and screaming: Daddy,
Daddyl" He picked her up in
his arms. kissed her cheeks-then
returned her to her parent II
have one, too" he said. "out in Cali
fornia. Haven't seen her for nearly
six months"
The Mig Time: Guy Lombardo's
disc OF "Humoresque"-Decca Il
Mos Album of Familiar Music"
9 Hummert production The
ditty. "A Rainy Sunday" which viii
toFchure the all night listeners OF
misery music Donald Buka's
saying IN Helen Goes to Troy.
-. Pamela Rivers in Pickup Girl"
-. Hubbard HoOyer's piece in Good
housekeeping. The Harm Done by