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Jack Benny Makes A Waiter Sad; Kate Smith Meets An Old Friend NEW YORK ... A waiter in a Broadway restaurant was irked when Jack Benny dropped in recently. Four peo¬ ple who were about to leave changed their minds, and one girl in the party telephoned a friend in Brooklyn, “Hurry on over and join us; you can watch Jack Benny eat!” The girl hur¬ ried—and made it in 40 minutes, just in time to see Benny fin¬ ish his dessert. And all that time the waiter had been stuck with a table of non-buying customers. ■ For more than 30 years Kate Smith lost track of Jack Hurdle, an old schoolmate at the Chester A. Arthur Gram¬ mar School, in Washing¬ ton, D.C. Then came Kate’s guest spot with Jackie Gleason—and a reunion. Hurdle is producer of the Gleason show. ■ Girl talk: Jaye P. Morgan’s manager, Bul¬ lets Durgom, made a deal for her with Robert Q. Lewis. There was some delay by Lewis in signing . . .. and the next thing Robert Q. knew. Miss Morgan was a national hit, ready to go out on her own—and not so eager to sign . . . TV veteran Kim Stanley is now Broadway’s toast in “Bus Stop.” Hollywood wants her, but wonders whether she considers herself comedienne or tragedienne. “Both,” says Kim. “I’m an actress.” ■ Walt Disney’s knack for taking the play away from competing attrac¬ tions isn’t limited to TV. His friends tell about the miniature railroad he built for the entertainment of his daughter, Diane Marie, and her friends. It enchanted them all as children. But when Diane Marie and her friends grew older, they asked Disney not to run the railroad any more on Saturdays and Sundays. “When our boy friends come over,” the girls com¬ plained, “they don’t pay any attention to us—they only want to play with the railroad.” Joey Adams is ex¬ hibiting this wire he re¬ ceived after playing a far-from-sympathetic straight role on NBC’s Television Playhouse: “You were such a won¬ derful heel that I think you should play a heel all the time. I hate to say this, but it seemed like perfect casting.” . . . Steve Allen’s crew call him “Steve-o.” They say he’s actually very shy, and that the secret of his “being different” is the youthfulness around him—“We don’t have a lot of cranky old guys with ulcers who don’t want to do some¬ thing because it’s never been done before!” ■ Red Buttons, who admits he grew up drinking seltzer (“two cents plain”), is now a fancier of French wines and has become a connoisseur. “Pronounced ‘common sewer!’ ” shouts his friend, comedian Jack E. Leonard. Jaye P. Morgan: zooming .