The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-17
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 Xhe Paul C~BOrn Yesterday Dsuglas-virginla Field merger has city editors busy following the tir that the Paramount star may post Che Renotice. All of us thawt they were happier than larks . Then there's another popular the atrical couple with the same plot The Jack Kirklands (Haila Stod- darCD. She's his 4th and is in Dream Girl" Kirkland's Tobacco Road" show Is now on tour in fts 18th year We also have some reconciliationS this morning, The Jose FerrerS (Uta Hagen) of the thittrr have dropped divorce plans and will co-star in Angel Street" on the Straw Katy circuit The Sunny Skylars (she's in ti1e Latin la revue) have k, and m. up, too What the gazettes muffed was that tobacco heir R. J, Reynolds settlement with his wife was the heaviest in U, s. history, It comes to nine million in cash and property .. Win, lose or draw, tine champ Louis will wind up with no money, because he owes it all to Mike Jacobs and Uncle Sam.
 Her name k Mary SpargO. She & s ft. g inches of Washington Post talent She was walking through . Capital park So was . guy from an opposition paper Before you could enjoy seeing t going b happen-she clipped him on the jaw, good and hard When he bounced up and said : $Why?" she belted and flO0red him agatn! "I never did like you, you heel!" she said He got up dnsted himself off and slunk away to the typewriter he uses for knif- eng dead Presidents In the back.
 Hattie CaFnegie's brother, Tony, end Sllow-gal Betty Haase have That Wild Look in their Orbs ,,,. Actress AmZie Strickland of CRS and ex-GI Frank Behrans were stitched on May 9th Waldorf snanicurist Marcia Violin has a marriage proposal from a Miami Beach rabbi. But can she chm a cheekin'? British newspapers were 90 fascinated by our Alcatra2 riot they are still doing features on t How about hotels using Ail1s suggestion? Have the bell hops show new guests the nearest fire escape, instead of getting a pitcher of lee water or cork screw"
 Twentieth Century. Fox drumbeat- esS (bendlng every effort to ac- paint moviegoeFV with the fact that Nancy Guilds name rhymes with Swlld'0 were embarrassed no end tlaiS week Because the Fox NEoviet0ne newsreel commentator eln the faahlOne sectiOn) prOnOunces @ to rhyme with "killed" The Talka-the- Town cOlyum In 8 mag gOt lost . little gabbing learnedly ab0ut televising the LOuls- Conn event It reports: Tt Is thought that the transmission Of the fight hy cable tO Washington may tech sically violate q Federal eARtWte agai1ssA transporting fight pictures RerONe El1A state MneS'' Oh, gimme back my Se. That was re- pealed nearly two years aEo, Rub.
 Howard Hughes, the sillionalre Nwadely item'd as being ra5Hle- daz1led by LanaO, Is running around with the former Mrs. R, Vallee (Bettyiane Green this week. He bruises easily, forgetS quickly . Income Tax boss J. Nunan could get rich being cSar for certain industry. Considering 1t Jack Dempsey's new bodyguard Is a ra- ven- dressed beauty They've been making the quieter places .. Han son Brown, irritatingly wealthy, and Jean Murdock (his wife). who Is Veddy-vedty, have a story for so- ciety pages. We can't spare the space From the June 7th New port (R l) News For Sale: Large mirror, 69%79 Inches. Tn old Louis xV frame, Count ReVentloW lei, 6762" Flashl Does Barbara Hut ton, hls ex-Wte, know tor Care) that the Counts weary of looking hl tlo HllIIOl
 Reading part 0f q letter over a shoulder: "Amer4cans in Paris say that PicassO may be expected Co have new phase soon. He has another girl friend, having aban- dOned Dora Maar, the YugO-Slav painter, who inhabited his canvass eS, If not his heart, for 9 years. She was the cerebral type, haunted by monsters. The new one Is sweet and 2l. The master evidently seeks hey .nonny- -nonny now"
 The T. DorScys tPat Dane) made up at the Sonny Durham preem, If you will pod'n the yawn The Jerry Brandts tEdna johnson eX- pect g photostat of their own fntinates have quit trying to keep noted pair from becoming dust. One symptom Is "tlle chronic Slt- ting and slipping" at Toots' place every day in the wk ~ The white trash is going to Harlem again for It's sll-nieht clubbing IL may just he talk-talk. but Max Baer tells people i, Dempsey 11ab owned 70 D. C. of him since 1927 Is that sood7 A movie joint on 9th Ave. Gin the 40s) is flirting with the closing troll ble 9th Avenue spot had. Per- rf1its hecklers to talk sexy back at the screen characters.
 
 New York Story; The city desks missed good yarn on Asst. n. A,