The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-23
MAN ABOUT TOWN

KIZALEN.I1EEZ MLNNAaalA I-The more than 200 G-Men Cnot including the numerous State Dept confidential agents and New York City, Chicago, etc, ace detectives) to guard the delegates and dipl0- mats The Big City dicks" are as- signed to spot well-known pickpock- cts, dips, rogues galleryites and ''cannons"-as big-time crooks are called by the gendarmes The heaviest protection is for Russia's Mr. Molotov As one John Ed- gar Hoover man put 1t: He'll be guarded by nearly 200 Russian se- cret Servicemen so an FBI agent won't get within 200 yards of him."
 Helen Hayes, starring in her big hit, Harriet" at the Geary Thea ter Helen, irked by lack of decent accommodations for the cast, intoned: Argentina which declared war against the Axis at the last minute gets swanky suites for her delegates. But some of us in the show who have been fight ing Axis supporters over here are being put out of hotelsl" .. Broad way snowman Brock Pemberton (ooss of Harvey" the smash hit) being the only male at the Fran cisca Hotel - for women only! |. :. Katherine Dunham's show being diSpossessed from the opera house by the State Dept, which cancelled her last days performance to make room for cOnfabs
 !. FDR's pal, Charlie Nicholson Che was 75 the other day), raising eye brows with the prediction: Mayor LaGuardia may be the Democratic nominee for Governor of N. r." U. John Metcalfe, the Washington correspondent, here for New York gazette. He's finishing a book called Tin Cup Diplomacy" which will please the underpaid working in our State Dept The return of Joe Rosenthal (this is his home burg. Joe is the AP hocus-focuSer Wko took that wonderful picture of the Flag being planted on Two Jima. .. Kent Cooper, the AP boss, is off, fering reproductions of the famed PllObO dt 94-LIlC CO BO GO the Marines via Navy Relief.
 The plight of s. F. restaurateurs and Swank hotels trapped between OPA rules and the confabbers. No butter, no steaks etc. But you have little trouble getting what yol want in the small restaurants along Market Street The buzz that Joe DiMaggio has peddled his in- tereSt in the tribal eatery . The renowned rivalry between Los An geles and the San Francisco cor respondents, which George Polk for his L. A. paper. George won't refeI to 1t as the San Francisco conference. He calls 1t the California l con4erence The real reason" Cong. Clare Luce returned to Italy | They say she wrote a book there | in which she does "a job" on Edda | MuaSolini.
 Mike McDermott, the popular special asst to Sec'y of Statetinius He arranged hotel rooms for over 900 newspapermen, newsreel cam eramen, colyumists and radio prilna | donnaS and then wound up with no decent" space in which to sleep himself The musical show, l watch Out Angel" which folded | at the Curran Theater Satdee night l after a 3-week run. Too bad. Some of the score was very good and several people in it are talented. The AlcaZar Theater renamed the United Nations theater. It's new marquee was arranged via the War Porduction Board-via request of the State Dept Glenn Allvine of the Will Hays zoo is in charge. The Hollywood films there will be changed daily for the delegates Going My Way frixample, will be heard in Czech for the Czechs. In Portuguese for the Brazilians, etc.
 The Omar Khayyam, jammed- packed eating place. Specializing in delicious Armenian cuisine. It is on the site of the city's once famed Coffee Dams, where Orpheum cir cult (and PantageS) hooters once stayed up all night The prop is George Mardikan. He started at Coffee Dams as bus boy .. : The Kubla Kahn, a Chinese night cub. It Is located on the prem ises once run by an importing firm, an alleged propaganda bureau for the Japs San Franciscos grand host, millionaire realtor Louis Lurie. Discussing a no-good, he said: Some men grow-others swell"
 The Chinese correspondent who covers the White House beat. He is affectionately regarded by the press. At the Breton Woods, the Dumbarton Oaks meet, etc., he got everybody's laundry done in a hurry" He will arrange that here, too. He goes to local laun- drymen and says: Must do fast. It is for Chinese delegates" | Little James Wong, 12-year old