The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-20
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 New Yorkers arc talklng about the runor that Secy of the Navy Furrestal and a syndicate may pur- chase the late Frank Knox's Chi- cago newspaper Disney's next full-length film--about New York Swing Street C52nd) :. Margaret Hayes plan to marry a Chicago broker . !. Lillian Smiths expected profit on her best-seller, Strange Fruit" $S0O,000. She re-wrote it five times before 1t was accepted. David Selznick's grand picture: s'Since You Went Away" One of radios highest paid soap opera mattresses, who lost her job because ,Bhe refused to take a cut in wages
 Conrad Nagle's breathless TO- mance with one of the Stork Clubs prettiest customers The Situa- tion at the popular Walter Donald sons home. He wrote the famed song, My Blue Heaven" The amazing circulation of all the movie tan mags-seven million each month Joe Besser's suit against NEG for losing his job with the E. Cam tor program The real story behind the general (recently de- noted abroad) returned here for al- legedly revealing Invansion Day plans. They say he's taking "the Tap".
 Z The talk that 1t will be at least two months after the wars end be- fore the Army settles all contracts on war materials. Meaning the end sof the Jap war The war between Hassard Short and June Havoc of es'NGexican Hayride," which you can hear out in Hollywood on clear day The way the Army laun- dered the vice situation in Miami, Miami Beach and New Orleans-af- ter 30 years of reform govt .. The most likely purchaser of the N. Y. Yankees baseball team-a movie ex- ecutive-whose initials are s. G. (not Goldwyn) The amazing job in radio show production by Frank and Anne Hummert. Current ly producing q programs-a total of ninety airings weekly The song, I'll Remember April Ca lovely ballad) just getting big break. It was written years ago.
 The authoritative statement that under no circumstances would Willkie accept the Secretaryship of State or anything under Dewey.
 The rumOrs about former Atlantic City political boss "Nocky" Johnson aging terribly in prison. Inmates re- port that he may not live Ver- onica Lakes personal appearance Tn Chicago, which drew 10000 people. Glenn Miller's band co-starred. Her opposition was Gerald L. K. Smith, who attracted 200 Virginia Hill, the playgirl, whose parties cost young hints. She has Jerry Wald, the orchestra man, going around with that painted expression .. The claw" putting drapes on the Etork Clubs new glass partition (between the dance floor and the bar) SO that customers who do not pay the new tax can't ogle the dancing celebs.
 The buzz about Sono Osato, the Aalented ballet star of "One Touch nf Venus" and why she handed in her notice. Supposedly after @ hot pulitieal argument backStage .. It seems Sono (part Japanese) want ed some one in the cast to read FDRS Invasion Day prayer to the audience, and the management nh- nh'd the idea The blue sap- phire ring (studded with diamonds and rubies) that Honeychile Wilder got from Prince Bishnu The amazing weekly business in Los An geles at the Philharmonic Theater, which staged "Showboat." $41, 900. That's better than many Broadway hits are doing How when the film "InterTnezzo (directed by Gregory Ratoff) premiered none of the major recording firms would risk making disc of "Intermezzo" .. "Whatl' they said. "A violin eolo?" Three years later the classic was No. on the Hit Par Rde.
 The gross to date on Gone With the Wind" the film-$S4, 100000. It cost 4is to film The previous record crosses: Ten million-from s'The Ten Commandments" and sQuo Vadis' Despite the tre- mendous publicity campaign, the picture Mark Twain" is dying out of New York The gab that there isn't one roulette wheel turning in New York, according to the top gamblers M. Todd's Mae West ehow-to be the most costly non- musical produced The way John J. Astor uses an Austin to avoid glares from the starved . The society wedding which plunged the bride and groom into bewilder- nnent when both discovered the other was poor The stage door James who clog the stage door Iwhere Catherine Was Great" is re- hearsing. The cast has 60 husky he-men The feud between Ar thur Krock of the Times and Tur- n1er Catledge over covering the con- Nention The morals rap due tor famed interior decorator.
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