The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-25
Broadway and Elsewhere
By Jack Lait

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 Howard Hughes has ordered his treasurer to give $100, 900 to Ma rine Sgt William Lloyd Durkin, who pulled him out of the blazing plane. The doctors say that in 30 seconds more, the daring young man would have been beyond human aid .. Durkin was mapping when the sound of a plane-off key, his trained ear kneW-awakened him He saw the crash, ran over and pulled Hughes out .. Durkin had fought with dive-bombers and was commended for putting out a fire in a flaming ship with a 1000 pound bomb aboard .. Hes self effacing chap, 30. from Oil City, Pa. After he and the Beverly Hills fire chief carried Hughes to safety, Los Angeles reporter whom know (his name Is Jack Lait, Jr0 nabbed Durkin, got the facts, ran to phone By the time l got back, with the crowd growing, plenty of excitement, I looked around for Ourkin-easy to spot, since he was in uniform" says Jack. He had evaporated .. But I found him he had gone back to finish his shut-eyel"
 It. Col. Gregory cPappy0 Boy ington has written his own story of his life and adventures, military. matrimonial and miscellaneous, and the script will probably be sold this week to a wealthy Californian who likes to dabble and gamble The deal calls for book publication, to be followed by film based thereon Bill Cagney is inter- ested In that. and his brother, Jim my, may play the happy -so-luekF hero If he does, he won't run into the qualifications that crimped him in the late George M. Cohan's biog Pappy isn't temperamental. tells all, ducks nothing. personal or professional
 Hearts in High-Carmen Miranda and Mexican actor Eduardo Norlega, not discussing toreadors or zee boo-ool =. Since Martha Scott di vorced Carlton Alsop this week, hes been telling Sylvia Sidney what wonderful place Reno is Stan Fisher. harmonica- player, lost the Carnivals Miriam LaVelle who will wed George Auld . Hunt Strom- berg, Jr, and Margaret Whiting prefer table for two Hubert Taft and Stella Roman, Of the Met Opera, continuing Whatthey started in Cincinnati, where she sang in a Summer engagement . Anne Der toldo, bonnie-faced boniface of Cafe Trouville. reserves her nenpro smiles for socialite Bill Leslie
 Never the Twain-From both eX- tremeties of the nation, on the same day, come two tales. on the same basic idea, with exactly re- verse conclusions:
 Dorothy Chapman, opera diva, has been asked by the Mayor of New Rochelle, N. Y, to change her name to Nina Rochelle, in honor of her home town, She has gracious fy complied.
 Monica Boyar, Dominican chant ing enchanter, served notice on her Hollywood press agent to get the name of Santa Monica changed to Santa Monica Boyar, or find a new job.
 We checked with the Mayor of New Rochelle. The Chapman-Ro- chelle item is true . We have no way of bullet-proofing what the Carlo canary said to her p. a. Except that he plaintively added, If you have loose job around
 I wish busybodies would stop sending me torrid tips about Benny Meroff and dancer Diane t'Call Me Mister Marshe, nightclubbing night after night-"and he's old enough to be her father!2 =. He should be. He IS her father . Mark Finley press director Of Mu- tual-Don Lee network, when he was a colonel overseas, was assigned a secretary with a song-title name Mavourneen O'Reilly. He was dis chcarged. Later, she was discharged. She flew the ocean to New York. He flew the continent from Los Angeles to join her. They were united at St Patrick's Cathedral by a priest, who is Finley's cousin. Now they're honeymoon!ng across the country, headed west in car they borrowed from hillbilly zeke Manners Planes are for peo- pie in hurryD
 Rose Marie, the honeymooner, has turned up. A wire to this depart ment advises that she and Bobby Guy are living in San Fernando Valley, Calf, and he's trumpet ing in Kay Kaysers band until he's called into the Army. Then the bride will pick up the s5o0oo in Eastern singing dates which she left hanging when they eloped Her mother had called our atten- tion to her disappearance
 Herb Fields, Rustic Cabin band leader, has written a theme song, Margaret" for the daughter of Pres. Truman when she stops post poning her radio debut Open ing in new musical at Province