The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-14
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 Elliott ROOsevelts book (which little, Brown will publish) will be christened: What's Wrong With the Press" Q. Queen Marie de- livered a blast in the British papers against her son, King Peter. Doesn't like his wife, so Her Maj. stopped giving her any coin A drama critic received live monkey with a blue derriere. From some anonymous admirer. It's driving him silly The anonymous sender's initials are J. N. an admirer of Annabella, who was roasted hard by the reviewer Ill Guild play Peter Arno says the split with the New York mag he worked on for so many years lis permanent Ezra Stone is the 37th returned war vet hired by Mike Todd for his several shows Gen. O'Dwyer, the mayor-elect cut off his phone after election. Too many T told you so'ers' .. You can tell Dorothy Parker from most other femmes at party. She's always the one with 8 brain in her hair.
 Show Business Is Like This: h. siders are telling this alleged low down" on why snowman lost out on a big chance to get rich Last season Arnaud d'USseau and James Cow wrote Tomorrow the World. Theron Bamberger, former Broad way press agent produced 1t .. This season the same writers have an- other success in Deep Are the Roots" but MT. Bamberger is not the producer . He doesn't know why yet unless someone calls his attention to this paragraph .. The inside story is this: When Tomorrow the World" was tried out at the Biltmore Theater, L. A, d'Us- seau's father wanted tickets for it ---and Bamberger put him in the last row.
 Jerome Kern's pals pleaded with him not to leave California for New York. Medicos warned him the Big Burgs climate would be fatal The Annie Oakley show (starring E. Mernan) has it's cast, scenery, costumes, jokes and every thing except the songs which he was to compose Three of Gus Ed wards proteges (Cantor and Hide garde, to name two) are in the ra- dio Hooperating's current First Fifteen Though Pres. Truman broke the record for daytime lis tening with 641 (on his VIE Day report). FDR still holds the all-time Hooper -790-reached on Dec. g. 1941 Lonnie Young, a bar gal at the Cider Mill Con 46th St., is more attractive than most show gals in the same theater district More limousines stop outside her place than at the Diamond Horse shoe across the street Sud den Thawt: Has any perfume mfr. called the stuff: Magnifi-scent? Ho, hum. Just mail check to the Red Cross.
 The scene was the lavish office of the late F. ziegfeld, now tenated by Billy RoSe-when he isn't in Lon- don wishing he was back in New York MT. Rose, his friend Ber- nard Baruch (adviser to Presidents) and Samuel Untermeyer (the Wall Streeter) where discussing Billy's &75,000 purchase of Rembrandt's "A Pilgrim at Prayer MT. U. re- marked that it was quite bit of change to spend on painting "It was well worth it." said MT. Baruch "I'd have paid million for it," said Rose. "I'm in love with it."
 One of the Diamond Horseshoe producers managers came in .. well" he said chastity. T finally got that guy who has the bird act to stay in the show for $75."
 "Seventy-five dollarsl" exploded Billy Rose. How do va like that! Seventy-five dollars! Well, all right. But we don't feed the birds!"
 Reminder: Christmas Seals go on sale Monday . 'The Sheriff" on WIZ is a Western without ham A high-ranking officer, sitting at the Roney Plaza's Bamboo Bar, sighed: "Ah, yes. Brass tarnishes quickly" Christine Johnson (she sings June is Bustin' Out All Over" in "Carousel") quietly mar ried a concert violinist (Walter Spolar) last week They honey l1looned in a Greenwich Village spot called Salle De Champagne .. A titled Britisher (woman) in a sWank hotel is begging for head lines with her $l00 cash gifts to couples. Her invite to her apart ment has a catch to it Ex- Mayor of New York James J. Walk CT at Toots Shor's was told: "The years have been kind to you" . |. "xes," sighed James J., kinder than waS-to some of the years"
 Lt. Al Hess writes from Japan that WACs stationed there have classes each day, and hardened soldiers and Marines, bored by rou- tine, sit in and listen. When they get 6 chance they throw erasers at the good looking teacher Re- gently one of the soldiers threw an eraser, and it hit the teacher plumb center of her fannetto. She turned around angrily and said: T wish you boys would stop it. If I had been facing you, you might have knocked my glasses off"
 Alexander Markey, here to pro- duce Heavenly Road" discovered the answer to the complex postwar problems. He found it in a Lowell Nellett col'm where a typographical 6rror went: We are living in an explosive atomsphere" At the Embassy Theater, Atlantic City, last week lwhile 2500 persons were witt messing the FBI thriller, "The House on 92nd etreet'O two stickup lads got away with si,900, the nights receipts Things We never thawt We'd ever see: The picture of Gov eFnor on so important a place as the cover of The Billboard, But