The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-27

Thomas Barrett Presents
 1-PerfOrmance Only-1
 FRANK LEWANDOWSKI
 In His Spectacular Specially
 THE FLOORLESS DANCE"
 Barrett almost passed out.
 He had warrant issued for John Doe and Richard Roe, for defacine property. I guess it's still out. He never discovered who perpetrated the grisly gag.
 That was the spirit of the Grim inal Courts Building those days.
 I'm not too proud of that maca- bre joke. But we were young and we were hard. for we lived in 8 daily atmosphere of crime and tragedy.
 Al and his partners did show in the jail chapel one night for 400 prisoners, seven of whom were under sentence of death. The ap- plause was terrific. I brought my bride to-be along She was treat ed with deference.
 Fellow-reporters on the beat were Ernie Stout, Clare Snively Qater to be Police Chief of Los Angeles) Walter Noble Burns, who wrote the sage of Billy the Kid" white haired Bill Culver and Sam Led erer.
 Our pressroom was no lunatic asylum like the one set up in "The Front Page" We did plenty of kidding and horseplaying, but long hours of hard, wearing work, too.
 Charles s. Deneen, the States
 DistricN Attorney, was elected Governor of Illinois. He offered me the job of warden of Joliet. My bride didn't think she'd like to live in penitentiay. I refused it. The wife of the man who accept ed it was attacked and murdered by a lifer in the warden's quarters a month or so later.
 Syracuse will honor one of its favorite sons, Larry Finley, Thurs day. Larry operates, from New York to San Diego and Hollywood, such widely divergent enterprises as manufacturing watches with his own name on them, super-mar- kets. huge dance-halls with name bands, and what not. He is a royal entertainer. The Syracuse doings will be broadcast on WAGE The Lou Holtzes are reported ready to reconcile :. Walter Florell, the hat-designer. won't break through his OPA ceiling-only $100 The Windsors check in at the Wal dorf, Oct. Jimmy Savo is seriously i'll in LOS Angeles hos pitaI .. The much-sought Nijin- sky is reported in Vienna.
 Reported Romancing-Chu Reyes and the singing Finn femme, Shir- ley Pietella Roger Provost, French polo-player, seen with McNeil. at Armandos Song stress Eileen Barton phoning Larry Kaye from the Coast, songster Del Casino dittoing Myra Taylor from Saratoga Ann Taylor, Powers poser, in the smarter spots with Bob Gamble -. Mary Jane Law son. the skateur, with comic George Dewitt Paul Kosloff and dance teacher Lenore Lee Dee Purnell and Harry Tedrey Model zita Miller and Bill Bloomingdale, at the Zodiac Room -. BramWell Fletcher, divorced by Diana Barry more, with Jacqueline Stix, who was her understudy on the stage, too =. Jane Withers- Blake Gar ner And the weekly Clark Gable report-now he's long-dis- tancing Barbara Bannister, society heiress (Smithfield ham), whom he met in Southampton. (And Miss Bannister is asked to phone Miss Miller. U. s. Treasury Dept, Circle 6-43OO, as there is medal awaiting her for selling $50C0O0 worth of war bonds, single-handedD
 John Boles, eX-ScreenStar, has come back-as a floorshow singer. His click at the Arrowhead Inn brought him a string of cabaret offers Lew Lehr, the comical clown bought the 68-acre Colonial of the late Col. E. R. Brad ley, at New Canaan, Conn. . June Havoc is in again for plas- tic-her third, or is it fourth? This one is dilly, I heard-to remove rings from under her eyes! . . Three months ago, James Barry, baritoning at the Havana-Madrid, ran an elevator in the Paramount Bldg. Bee Palmer, Al Siegel's first wife and first star, after a 20- year chill, came to him to say she would stand by him in any threat ened litigation The Tommy Farrells Che's Glenda's actor som have their final decree.
 Jerome Wildberg, producer, has never tasted liquor in his life. He had to make a phone-call and had nothing smaller than a $5 bill. He went into a cheap groggery, ordered whisky. which he didn't touch, handed over the bill. AS he wait ed for the change, a lush put his arm on his shoulder and hoarsed: You know, we're a couple O damned foolsl" (And with that he passed out).
 An Air-MaiL, Special Delivery letter was dispatched to King Fea- lures Syndicate, Manhattan, from Brooklyn, by a fan impatient for a crossword puzzle answer. It took three days getting there.