The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-16

f blowing out the one candle on the cake .Sherm Billingsley sent to their table. Tom Hudson CHenry Ald- rich announcer) with Laurie Sears, at Armando's. Betty Price, who was Joe DiMaggio's f1elders choice, with Danny Scholl, of Gall Me Mr' Comic Stubby Kaye with Lillian Grey, daughter of the rich est merchant in Labrador.
 There is mystery about the War ner-Joan Crawford relations. A re- port that she signed again is ap- parently premature. Much talk was aroused in Hollywood when the studio, in brag ads for its twentieth anniversary of sound pictures cam | paign, did not mention the two big gies Crawford had made for it. Reports indicate the Winter Gar den will be dropped by Arthur Rank, British producer, and will go to Universal, which has no other theatres. I hear Mark Hellinger's | The Killer" (Which looks like a smash in the projection room) opens at the Garden and that's a Universal.
 Reported Romancing Nancy Carroll's lovely daughter. Pat Kirk land. and Warren Leslie of the So- cial Register, at Bradley's. {. Paul Berney, gem dealer, and Berenice 1 Gilbert, to marry in the Fall, l hear. ;. Jack Cassidy, of the late Around the World" and Evelyn Ward of the chorus. Billy Roses Daurine Andres and Steve Ellis, Giants broadcaster, together again and again, since she switched from Peter Lawford. . Ned Schuyler, owner of Miami's Beachcomber, and Louise Jarvis, showdoll, seem seri- ous. Lois Andrews with test-pilot Johnny Martin. E. Woolie Donahue escorting Lady Stanley Sylvia Ashley) at Fl Morocco, and, at the next table, Buddy Rogers, husband of Mary Pickford, who once was the wife of SylviaS late husband, Douglas Fairbanks, ST. Compli- cated? That's what thought.
 It. Col. Gregory (Pappy) Boying- tons book is finished and in the hands of the busy Walter E. Smith, who seems to have about eight hands. Not only will Smith pub fish, but he'll do the movie him. self, as an independent, perhaps sa roadshow entry. Admiral Nim- itz has offered Smith any fleet fa- cilities required for the screen adaptation. The title, first time announced anywhere, is Where Are We Now?'
 The song by Paul Berlenbach, dropped yesterday through a me- chanical slip-up, is T Have You Today Yvonne Bouvier, prin- cipal in the Folies Bergere, who clicked here at the Cotillion Room of the Pierre, had to quit abruptly because of failing health. She bought a farm near Madison, Conn, learned enough from scratch to make 1t keep her. After three years, she's entirely well again, and opened on Spivvy's Roof. Joan Barton, who acts for Columbia, is divorcing James Thomas, alrplane executive. Susan Peters is set to return to the screen-in .Millicent, My Love" to be produced by Charles Bickford, the actor. :. Clayton Collyer, Super1nan on the air, is a Sunday school teacher ln Poundridge, N. Y, and the kids have swelled his classes to get au- tographs as well as inspiration.
 Meyer Davis, the society maestro, wires me a lengthy defense of James Caesar Petrillo, who, he says, has absolutely no jurisdic- tion over proposed raises in N. Y. nightclubs." He adds, There is too much hooey about Petrillo, just because he is colorful," If that's what's the matter with Petrillo, I'm color blind. I'm also dumb. But retain my sense of smell!