The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-15

reau"l Field Marshal Sir Ber- nard Law Montgomery will visit the U. s. when it is suspicious. q. A well-known mags drama critic Is perilously balancing his diStin- guished reputation by courting a Broadway actress who happens to be triple-dating him Gil Lamb will sub for Edgar Bergen on the air.
 Ralph Slater, the hypnotlst, re- gently got out . recording for in- somniacS The big Idea, 1t ape pears, Is to put the recording on, after you are In your little bed- die, and you are talked to sleep Safer, according to rumOr, than those deadly sleeping tablets So wOt? So nuttin' .. Except that st. MOritE staffeES were in stitches the other middle of the night when a patron phOned the desk and complained between what might have been sobs) that he couldn't sleep It was Prof. Slater!
 Note to Journalism Students: One of Mir. Luce's top editors, long, est in service at his photo mag, is quitting to go into the corset busi- ness because the position offers so little future!" True Davis next is a wealthy Hawaiian widder J. Sullivan, the barrister, and Di- ane Corday, the actress, will go through That Hoop on May 1st... Margot Grahame, the British ac- tress, got $115,000 Gas a down pAy- menD, plus $52,000 per annum for life--aS Q settlement - in yielding a divorce to multi-millionaire AL Ian McNfartir. Anna e. Nilsson, silent screen star, wires: Could you contact Mae Murray to get in touch with Screen Actors Guild in Holly wood? Very urgent and very ad- vantageous to her" |. That Wash ington lobbyist who pulled those weird parties in the Pierre (for many Very Important People, is now on notice the cops know all about them.
 Billy Rose sat down at the StOrk Club press table and got himself trapped into the short end of . gag again The producer (whO is on diet) brought forth a solid gold saccharine case with his initials on 1t, no less James Cannon said: What's the gold case fOr?"
 "Saccharine tablets" said Billy, innOcently.
 "Oh," said Cannon, q thawt 1t was for cigarette butts"
 Mrs. FDR, in one of those off, the-record talks at femme press club, was asked what she thought of Churchill'S Fulton speech. "One of the worst things that could have happened" she is said to have ex- ploded The first congrats tele- grams David Rose received (after introducing his new Holiday for Music" program) came from Martha Rave and Judy Garland, both his ex-brides It's 6 boy for the James (Travelogs) Fit1patricks |. The chorus of a midtown night club all have wealthy "daddies"- except the one on the end who looks so uppity. One Of the dolls has two minks, one stone marten, and has more diamonds than Peggy Joyce has press clippings They say the hottest thing to hit the town (since Carmen Miranda) Is Camar- go, @ secsee young lady. at the Havana Madrid They tell you Sam Rosoff, the subway builder, won 30,000 on a Cuban lottery and dropped it all on one horse. Silleh- bwoy Rudy Vallee, who always swears off love, is modifying his views on that subject via Mary Ann Nyberg Their staunchest ad- mirers are agog and aghast because they claim they can hear Greer Carson and her groom tiffing all the way from here This Is the sort of trivia that hes kept the conductor of this colin interested in the racket all these years: When flop movie is given an elaborate press agent campaign, it is known as putting the rouge on the corpse" |. Unless a newsmag corrects its recent 'ridicule," Paulette God dard will sue for million dollars flor making molehills out of her