The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-25
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truck, but he is currently renting the aged vehicle to RKO for scenes in "A Time to Kill" at the plush rate of $55-a-day! Burt Lam caster, sawdust sniffer. MT. Lam caster, who got his start in show business as 8 circus acrobat, finds that movie success is not enough to make him forget the big top, and has asked Paramount for a special contract clause permitting him to rejoin the circus for two months each summer Bing Crosby, gagged gagster. Despite un- usual resistence to corn, MT. Crosby has lost patience with punsters who invariably wish him many pappy returns of the day when ever he celebrates a wedding an niversary.
 Idol Chatter: When Clark enters the MGM commissary, you'd be technically correct in describing the ensuing feminine conversation as Gable gabble" Silly notion: Paulette Goddard without a de- cided opinion to express II there's a smoother ballroom dancer in these parts than Loretta Young. I'd like to dance with her .. Wondering muse: With so many six-footers available, why is 1ngrid Bergman so often teamed with short leading men who accentuate her own AmaZonian proportions? word description of Bob Hope: Supplemental .. Consider ing Barbara Stanwyck's recent career, crime does pay News to me: That Otto Kruger started his stage career as Otis King II Mickey Rooney can make a deal with Bugs Bunny, he oughta call his proposed music publishing tlrm' Rooney Tunes"
 Small Talk: For months Marjorie Reynolds has been riding a new hobby-target shooting with a .21 rifle. Scornfully her husband, Jack Reynolds wagered $25 that, shoot. ing from only 10 paces away, ana using a rest, she could not write" her name in a pine plank. Mar iorie spent six hours and five boxes of cartridges doing 1t to her own satisfaction-only to have her nus band refuse payment because sne neglected to dot the "1' in her name! Speaking of "wagers' . there lives in a house adjoining MGM a man with a long memory buzz saw and flair for extortlon. Recalling that the studio, about 10 years ago, paid another of its neigh bors handsomely to refrain rom footing a cornet during picture making hours, the man with the buzz saw armed himself with some knotty boards and went to Work, The MGMers burned, but the scream of the saw was not to De denied if sound recording was to continue. They paid!
 At Columbia, a bunch ot the
 boys" were discussing the marVeis of radar. Just think" said one, within our time it may be posslole to communicate with many heaven ly bodies!" Harry von zell, listen ing in from a table a few 1eet away, snapped his fingers. 'That reminds me- said he loudly, Il haven't heard from Betty Granie lately!' A Croix de Merite l. thls week to the Pied Pipers, Frank sinatra and Andy Russell. They tell me they're organizing a very snecial kind of music publish1ne company to handle nothing Dul music written by high school anc college students All funds derived from the enterprise will go to TUT. ther the education Of the youtniu composers Quite nunanaiio, ,, on the Summer Holiday" set a McM the other day. Butch" Jen- kins misplaced a tooth that nae fallen out that morning-and hli nom pays him fifty cents for eacf one he ShedSi