Show Dame Rumor Rumors Is s Always Nosing Around I She May Be Just a Phrase to to You But She Ha Harasses the the Famous f By fly BOBBIN ROBBIN COONS S HOLLYWOOD NEA Theres There's a i dame in town who has a little in common with the George WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- ington of the old oId cherry tree yarn She cuts down sometimes more than cherry trees trees this this when she's malicious and playing with but but she never owns up She never says I did It with my little knIfe knIfe-In ln somebody's back She never says Sure I 1 spread that one one one-It it was a lot of fun and I hurt nobody She never says anything probably probably probably ably because she's too busy working working work work- ing on a new angle She causes a lot of trouble a lot of work and sometimes she r. r I p Y N 3 Jackie Cooper Rumor said that thai he was a midget costs casts people people people-In In time and money You'll find her listed In your our di directory directory directory di- di rectory of phrases as Dame Rumor She went to work on Bing Crosby Crosby Crosby Cros Cros- by not long ago Bing having rumored fatally Injured more been rumor rumored fatally injured more than once is used to it by now This time she had it that Bing was marooned on an Island after a yacht wreck off the coast It took tooka a couple of hours to establish the fact that Bing hadn't gone to sea kea ea that he was out at Santa Anita watching the bangtails I Jackie Cooper stretching upward by the year hasn't been bothered lately being his own best an an- But everybody remembers when the rumor was that Jackie was a midget There was a rumor like that about Shirley Temple too too and and by the way have you seen leen young Miss Temple in I a formal evening gown Theres There's the perennial about Nelson Nelson Nel Nel- son Eddys Eddy's eyes It comes up every every every ev ev- ery few months insisting hes he's goIng going going go go- ing blind blind despite despite the ease with which he gets around in pictures and on the concert stage Eddy usually obliging isn't going blind and wishes the rumors would stop Jack Benny had a funny one to deny the deny the story that hed he'd been In Injured Injured Injured In- In by a bucking horse at a dude ranch It was a funny one because because be be- e- e cause Benny doesn't like horses and the only time hes he's mounted one was for a picture under picture under protest Those are just a few of the fancy faney licks the dame gets In from tImeto timeto time timeto to time There are many more including the ones that develop later later later lat lat- lat lat- er to be true I y iJ s r y r ry y rf s f Jack Benny He was supposedly injured by a bucking horse |