The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03
NEW YORK BY NIGHT


 The Biz Town Rlngside: Grace Moore. who uses the Stork Clubs back door - which is what most Celebs wish they could do - to avoid the starers, oglers and other celebrity-worshippers Jean Ar thur, the lovely lady in the red dress at Carnegie Hall ;. Michele Morgan in tweeds at Goa Rouge eclipsing all the ladies in decollete
 Morton Downey, whose option for another year was taken up al- most on his 1st ann'y Choo- Choo Johnson having her swim suit shape snapped by a Life photog as she aHkled along with a colyum- ist Lisette Verea, who is back in the ''Merry Widow" cast without her appendix. but with Those Legs! Irene Hervey selling war bonds at versailles. Irene and gals like her are the only nice things about the war Charles Lindbergh, whose Swedish grandfather was not named Lindbergh, but Manson.
 SalIies in Our Alley: Some of us were gabbing about cine-maiden who bleached her hair every known shade in the last few years !. Wonder what happened to her?" someone wondered "Oh," Benny Goodman explained, q hear she finally turned into broom!" '. George Jean Nathan (the critic) and George z Kaufman (the play wright) were in Cafe Pierre, ac- cording to the press agent there. Suddenly MT. Nathan yawned :. MT. Kaufman scowled and intoned. Cant you think of anything-but business?"
 B'way Smalltalk: Lulu Bates. vet eran blues singer, inheritS q big job on the 11th-the Hit Parade. =. Stanley Woodward, sports chief Of the Trib, is helping collect funds for Sam Langfords sunset years. The Prof. EinStein scripts will be auctioned for War Bonds in a Mid west city this week A society by-liner is on the way out. The reason is terrible, even If untrue!
 One society column patty-caked gleefully in print because the Break CTS Hotel in Palm Beach (now an Army hospitaD would soon be re- turned to the swank set! .. That's how mobs started the French Revo- lution, you dope.
 Sounds in the Night: In Reu- bens: 'The first unconditional sur- render of the war: Argentina to Winchell" At Jack Dempsey'S: That's darn good shape. for the girl it's in" At the Tavern on the Green: She's as pretty as Rodgers and Hammerstein song" .. At Goa Rouge: 'Mairzy Doats and Dozy Doats-but you gotta order Philly meegnonp At the Little Palm: Has she Dixie accent? She's got south in the mouth!" ".... At Armando's: Did you read the latest (s) edition of that sheet?" At the St. Moritz: "A skunk by any other name would smell as Rankin" .. . In the Hurricane: "He has 8 soft spot i'll his head for her"
 Memos of Midnighter: Madcap Merry Fahrney, who followed her Nazi heart to Argentina. now re- alizes her millions of dollars don't mean a thing Ann Durham of the Stork Set is taking flying in- structionS in Florida One of the key witnesses in the Lepke case is expected to switch from prosecu- tion to a defense witness .. h. siderS alleged Postmaster Walker tells intimates he refused to okay Esquire because it would be bad precedent" as so many banned magS base their pleas on copying ESky's policy :. . His chumS think George Brent will soon wed movie starlet .. Ben Smith, oil man must have cleaned up again considering the big poddy he tossed for the President of Venezuela last week A Brooklyn ivory tosser beat New Jersey craps game for 190 Gs The local South Ameri- can colony is worried. Most of them are people who are paid to stay away from their countries by their kin!
 The Orchid Garden: Prof. Gu