The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
MAN ABOUT TOWN

MAN ABOUT TOWN
 Ruth ChattertOn's chums say the star has been secretly married Cfor some tine) to a soldier now abroad
 Joan Fontaine and movie-pro- ducer D. Lewis have oopld. His steady is now Signe Hasso :. Jean Hersholt's boy, Allan (accord- ing to the local Scandinavian col- onyl, is serious about 8 beautiful new Danish actress, last-tagged Bendixen 1. Betty Hutton's sigh maker is Hank Durham, ex-groom of Lola Lane That U. s. Ma rine emblem which Ruth Chicago aOklahoma" comedienne) Clayton wears is from It. Eugene Grace, Jr,, son of the Bethlehem Steel prexy Ambassador Crews nom- nation by FDR as a State Dept sec'y is wisely applauded, except by high Chinese here, who hope Crews Japanese servants are U. s. citizens, etc. A member of a famed 5and10 family will be in- volved in a "Hecker-Hempel' life contract case unless a $5,OOO per year settlement is made out of court: The man involved ill N. Y. Athletic Clubman. She's a for ner radio actress.
 Capt. Chas. GraysOn, the writer, and Daye Elliott (nee Evelyn Cro- well, formerly of the shows) are making the same shadow WI light Tear, the top horse of the year, will be married to Whirlaway next season A scandal is expected to break soon about the reeter smoking all over the place at a local collitct- The show-galS and chorusirens are taking their fellers over to Tommy Lyman's between shows Since that Captain got ripped apart by civilian in an East Side hotel (midtoWn) the place has been shadowed by mil1- tary authorities. They've made some interesting discoveries, such as itI being 8 rendezvous for floozy's, etc.
 Action shortly .. One ot the burg's biggest spenders is raising eyebrows with his parties ill night spots. He usually is hte sole male among the Sapphos!
 Paul Calico is kicking his own shins for passing up the chance of doing the re-write on Under Cov- CT" Paul didn't think it would sell MGM top-flight writer H. Koenitz and his Mrs. are dividing after four years. He will write the sequel to Hargrove. His wife re- turns East via Reno John F, Maruuand, they say, refused to buy into" the big hit, ''The Late George Apley," which he co-auth'd with Geo. s. Kaufman, whoever he 1S.,. Kaufman invested $18,000 in it While Marquand will be enriched by the heavy royalties, Kaufman's bit will come to nearly one million smackers Beginning of the End Dept: Connie Immerman, who made and lost fortune in the old Cotton Club (and recently staged a comeback in the hooch biz), lost $2,500 in gin game.
 WM Rogers daughter, Mary, who was bethothed to Victor Cutler, has a new beau, Navy It. David W1- Hams Kitty Carlisle just lost her maid. Had her nearly a year
 The maid Ca pretty, 18-year old blonde) is singing at the Embassy in PhiIa. She heard so many pretty re- cording at Kitty's apartmentt hat she decided to sing .. Gloria Van- derbilt, the teen-age bride, now gets $1 ,0O0 for posing as a Powers model plus her endorsement per advert. Gilbert w. Gabriels book, T Got a Country is clicking. Takes a healthy whaek at army publicity madmen and globe-trotting Sena- tors How come the State Dept is holding up Donald T. Brigham,s new book = which he hopes to bring from Switzerland? He's the N. Y. Times foreign news ed. last man to leave Paris before NaI occupation His book ap- parently is packed with things cer- tain MT. Bigs do not want public.
 Texas insiders report that U. s. U. s. tPappy" ODaniel signed his own political demise when he joined renegade Demmys. Lone Star I lEApGIJS d1C CO1lAAdCA1b OAA0V "AASAA Pappy runs again he will be Texas new dog catcher Ex-Gov. Tal- madge of Georgia will run for gov error next time, and insiders fear he will win Metro exec. Larry Weingarten will wed MGMagnate l.. B. Mayors physician, who is a phemme (Dr. Jessie Marmorston), now mending from an op, herself Victor Jory's way of saying My Darling" is liable to become a na- tional catch phrase .. The Latin Quarters new 18-gal show next Wedsdee is named Give Me Thrill".
 You may recall the thrilling Bri- tish-made film, Target for To- night" The colm itemed that the ..F' (for Freddie) in the spell binder had been killed in action :. |. And that his name was Group Cap tain Percy Pickard ,. How he was killed may now be revealed. A newsreel released about 15 days ago showed remarkable Mosquito raid by the RAF which freed French prisoners held by the Nazis