The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-13

Mary Lucas Crawford, who danced with her in Guinan'S, has just re- turned from a visit with Ruby. Mary too, married a millionaire Bobby Crawford, music publisher, who died five years ago. And she, too, is still beauty.
 Jan Valtin, author of the Soviet soaring Out of the Night" is back, out of uniform. His new book, Children of Yesterday" will go on display this week, issued by Read CTS Press. Valtin wrote it by bits and drabs, in South Pacific
 jungles and fox-holes, carried it through two invasions and several preliminary campaigns He fln-
 ished it in the Philippines and, himself at the controls, flew it to Manila, where he had it typed and shipped to Washington, to be cen- sored. -. Written under gunfire and during typhoons, the precious script was flown thousands of miles safely--then was lost in Washing ton. . But he had the hand-writ- ten original, which he had carried in his jungle-pack, half way around the world. He turned that in, and, since he had become civilian, it went to press uncensored!
 Reported Romancing-Mary Dal- las and Donald Buka, who have played stage love-Scenes, rehearS- ing their own script, without a di- rector. Taylor Allen, blonde shoWgal at Arrowhead Saratoga, and Louis Ritter furrier. =. June Christie, Stan Kenton's vocallure, and Paul Bannister, who books her
 Martha Vickers and Don Alvar- do . Don Wilson and Lita War her, movie-magnate Harrys daugh- ter, seen at the Carnival. ;. And. my British spies whisper, Ru- manias King Michael is being linked in Buckingham Palace ru- mors with Princess Elizabeth. of that comes of, does it make her a queen, or him prince consort?)
 The John Jake Astors are seen at the best nightclubS-but not to- gether. Louis Prima. introducing his new singer, Sandy Bishop, at Meadowbrook, says she's Detroit socialite. Liz Whitney, at Brad ley's, playing hard-to-photograph. That Club Car, the all-night | locker-licker Fifth Ave, fall-in which had it's cabaret license lift ed, going merrily along, "A hours a day. YonkerS is starting on a mile-long sign, with letters 40 feet | wide and IS feet long-"Yonkers, N. Y-City of Gracious Living Celebrating it's 300th Anniversary" Gracious We spent 300 years in Yonkers one Saturday night"
 Paul Gerard Smith reminds me that Murray Carson, years ago, "angeled" a musical show, Ching q Ling" with an all-Oriental cast. It never got to Broadway, but eX- pired in a burg that was to hear more about Garsson-Washington. The show got back to New York by floating a check at the Willard Hotel-a pogo on the Bank of Para. Carson then had an insurance of- flee on Fifth Ave, across from the Library, that looked like the one Nicholas Nickleby worked in. He hadn't yet met a Congressman.
 Edda CianO, 38-year-old daughter | of Mussolini, We are advised first | hand, is keeping her jaw up and | subsequently, a family character istic. Shabby, bounded and fallen from pomp and power to poverty and disgrace, she has re- turned to Rome, seeking to salvage from her husbands or fathers es- tates something on which to SUD- port her three children. T am still a Fascist" she says. Why not? But I despise politics, filthy game from which I hope to keep my children. was glad when Italy joined the war, I believed we would win. I will live with my mother-in-law, in her little house in Tuscany I am writing no memoirs. |. My soul and my sorrows are not for sale!'
 Plaza Hotel Conversation Piece Elderly gentleman, very distingue, very plastered paged to the phone. Helped by boy to get cord from