The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-03-25
Man ABOUT TOWN

Percy Joyce told this column
week ago: II may have big story
soon" Editors probably can get
the famous bride to confirm the
EumorS The Langford (murder
mystery caSe) widow is doing the
rounds with q wealthy society den
fist They say the eX-Mrs. Ruth
Foran Pardo's next well be young
nurgeon ChaS. Chaplin, Jr., has
qrowed up. Her names Jean Cor
don -. E. s. Lowe purchased the
Ansonia Hotel for 3ls mill . E.
The courtroom concessionaires at the
Diamond Horseshoe just bought the
Paramount Hotel upstairs for three
million Liz Whitney and Henry
North (the Ringing circus exec
have reconciled and may blend at
the altar Their friends quote
both as saying the T. Dorseys CPat
Dance will Ruinovate 1t &c. Joe
Z. Lewis, the star, dropped more
than $4,000 on the nags to the
Miami broken-noSe brigade
Lana Turner annexed q racing
stable during her S. American tour
the gift of a Latin fan. The
horses are en- route here via boat
Sports scribe Jimmy Cannon
donated 40 bux to an unfriendly
Stickup baddie.
Senator BilbO according to Wash
ington insiders fell asleep in a
Senate ante-room the other day
and the gong announcing the ses-
sion) awakened him Springing
out OF his chair, Bilbo fastened
into the Senate without knowing
his pistol dropped out of his pocket
Senators Chavez, George Tyd-
ings and Barley instructed that the
"gat" be turned over to Leslie Biftle,
Secretary of the Senate e. Who's
the Biligot afraid OFF,
Ed Kennedy, the Associated Press
ace Che broke the Armistice story
and was penalized for it, will get
hunk on everybody by breaking
"the biggest story since wars end,
according to pals =. Isabel Moore,
mag writer, got a divorce from
MAJ. Don Moore Of Warner Broth
ers at Las Vegas, New. Olga
Tarnova "a new type of stripeeler)
is advertised as a real Russian Prin-
cess-once with the Moscow Art
Thittir Johnny tombstone is do
ing his grooming to starlet Ellen
Ross Tax men have discoV-
cred O tax evasion scandal that will
make Lustig's look anemic in COM
parison . . The longtime marriage
OF lovely Betty Sundmark (once OF
the B'way Chorus) and Argentine
tycoon Alberto Dodero has crashed.
She'll file in Uruguay . in dis
cussing world affairs Randolph
Churchill invariably refers to his
famous father-not as pop dad,
or "the old man'-but as Now
Churchill does it this way"
When the USS Missouri sailed on
its Mediterranean mission there
/ we're about 20 scribeS on board. And
what a holiday! A few days before
the shove-off the journalists re-
Iceived threatening letters post
marked Boston, predicting the ship
would be blown up, etc, as it passed
through the Dardenelles. The stops
will be at Isle of Capri. Naples, the
'Dodecanese Islands and so on.
There were supposed to be only a
dozen newsmen sailing. but at the
last moment the extras were in
Ivoted Sotto-voce The press
grapevine says It'll be the junket
of tHnkets!" Bon Joy-age!
All that cheering Is over the fact
ehst Mrs. Eddie F'oy, Jr, needn't
undergo any major operation-and
She happy news came on her birth
day The Mayor has quietly
served notice on the mobs that so
Tar as gambling Is concerned, he
plans to be tougher than Fiorello
n|he boys apparently got bad lnfor-
nation before election The
Ereres Warner are holding their
heads. They revised their long
term contract with Joan Crawford
to q 2-pic deal-and then she up
and copied the Academy ribbon. T..
lByefiller Mary Harboard quit the
male mag to be m. e. OF the latest
fascinating femme mag :. :. George