The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-30
COLUMN CONFETTI

Aafsn newspapermens Gary Mer- Nill, who plays Q newspaperman, m the soon.due~ Born Yester- dav," is seen as an intellectual. He dlscards the traditional battered felt hat ton the back of his head) for horn-rimmed Specsl When "Spellbound" is shown in s. Amer ica It's title will be "Cuentame Tu Vida" Crell Me Your Life) Tragic story behind the forthcoming issue of Vogue Is the sudden death of the beautiful i9-year old model Reve Riley. Her first important fashion photos dot the magazine. %. This is how Forever Amber" has been altered to pass the cenSorS: Amher's affairs in the book become those of Anlber's husband on the screen.
 Tune Detective sigmund Spaeth is recommended to orconductor Don Voorhees, discovery. Don reports that the first phrase of the song hit, symphony" is identical to the pantomime music used for decades in vaudeville by Joe Jackson and his bike" Billie Holiday, the blues thrush, will be presented in a solo recital at Town Hall on Feb 18th at 5:30 p. m. The sponsors are Greer Johnson and Robert Snyder. The latter is the young man who "stage-managed" the United Na- tionS confab at San Francisco.
 James Lee in his col'm, ''T'he Main Stem," reports: "A daughter was born recently to Gloria Della ven. and that must have made Wal ter Winchell feel a little older. In the first column he ever wrote, ne announced the birth of Gloria her. self"
 Not older, James, just balderl
 The theatrical listing for "Pyg- Tnalion," lists the author as Ber- nard shaw. Maybe they want to make him sound like a new play wright, or save money on the space rates Jerri CRum and Co-cah Co-lah) Sullivan (she introduced 1t at the Versailles in New York and Jimmy McHugh, Jr., are blazing on the west coast ENelyn hnlgnt the delightful canary, and It. Col. Wm. Shipley are a duetcetera. His mater is Ruth B. Shiplley of the State Dept. Poppatunity knocked on the door of the Gene Barrys (he's the Count in ''The Would-Be GentlemanD. It's a boy at Wo- mans hosp. Newbold MOTHS recently of City Hall, becomes commentator, too Gene Tun- neys seen Maurice Evans version of Hamlet" four times
 Henry MOrgenthau is being of- fered a financial column job by a syndicate. That's a natural L. Walters new revue at the Latin Quarter tomorrow night (they re- port) has a higher budget than any of Bway,s famed musicals. The nut" is Il Gs weekly. All prin- cipals rate 4-figure wages, and the chorus has 2l dolls Mrs. FL liott Roosevelt, who deneid all "blessed-event reports, may admit it now.
 A2nd Street Scene: One movie temple offered the MarXmen in "Room Service" the other night. Across the way was Sinatra in Step Lively" which was filmed from that musical Mimi Ben- zell of the Met was called a mar ried woman by Q gazette last Sab bath. which she ain't Col. Rob- ert Lee Scott has invested his roy alties (from his book and flicker version of God Is My Co-Pilot'D in Florida real estate. His Winter Park place value is now estimated at around 300 Gs . The Fred AL len stanza gave dialers the impress sion that Johnny Mercer wrote saturday Night Is the Lonellest Night of the Week" which was writ ten by Samuel Calm and Julius Styne, who had the miseries until just now.
 The Village Barns Tex Fletcher rendered a ditty over the Mutual network the other night about a town called Tombstone. He has since been appointed a deputy mar shal of that Arizona burg, gold badge, etc. One day the dic- tionarieS will include Jerry Gray 5 new word: Bilboneheads Ab- ner Deans "It's a Long Way to Heaven" is witerature Some ob- servers dining at Moore's last night were anxious to bet Truman will not run in l948. Others said he couldn't get the Denny nomination. That Eisenhower could win even if he ran on the Communist ticket, so sure- fire is he, etc.
 Viewing the best seller lists ("Lost Weekend;" Ward 2C"; Dark Legend,' etc.) it looks like strait jackets are now fashionable among the litree set. Kaiser, Ford and Chrysler have proven that there's a difference between collective bar gaining and collective pickering . Insiders say that Chas. Evans Hugh es, Jr., statement about bias in classrooms) was completed on Nov. 9th, but not released because of pressure. That's why it was sneaked out and released to the press with