| Show W Walter alter ON ON Win Winchell V BROADWAY hEl Copyright 1932 by Dally Daily Mirror Inc Portrait of a Man Talking to Himself Crazy about that new ditty Imported from the London show Bow Bells A top-hat top tune with witha a lilt to It plus Intelligent orda e Youre Blase it is christened and it goes on to say You net act so bored when bored when youre you're adored Too bad It was wasted on the recent casualty Heigh Ho Ev Ev- Too bad too that George Raft who leaped Into popular favor so hurriedly via Scarface and Dancers in the Dark was libeled by his flicker films film's promotion bureau Anything to arrest the attention of the magic lantern item collectors one presumes So it was announced that George was formerly a gigolo which he never was was and and now the various newspaper morgues contain clippings clippings clippings clip clip- pings about him and that legend Which he never will live down Loved that crack from the voyager Jessel Who said that thaL the only difference in European conditions and here Is that over there everybody is broke while broke while over here only our relatives are arc Which certainly belongs among the merciless truths For one ne of them put on a good act the theother theother theother other day and after doin doing a Camille Camme about having havin frayed shirt cuffs and so forth finally coaxed a healthy cash sli gift And then had the cheek to chirp as he inspected his fingernails Now I can cango cango cango go and get myself what Ive I've needed for a long Jong longtime time time time-a a manicure They used to tell me that one could have ha a 1 time of ot it seeing the rest of New Y York but York but I was al always always always al- al ways under the Impression that everything happened hap hap- between Second Forty-Second and Central Park South As a matter of or fact very happens along Broadway but Broadway but those of us who gather patter for the papers must make it appear glamorous which it hasn't been for ever er so long longa a spell now What a shudder it must have been for those lassies that came up the steps out of a subway kiosk the other sundown And one of them screamed hysterically because a man clutched at ather ather ather her form Poor chap He apologized as aj the gallants slugged him not him not knowing that he was blind The Chinese theater in Hollywood Wood an elegant entertainment in itself has a novel sidewalk and foyer When len the place opened it appears Mr Grauman who reminds you of Morris Gest found that the pavements had not yet dried And so he urged such personages as Mr Fairbanks and his wife Harold Lloyd the Talmadge girls et al aI to put their footprints hands and their signatures into the wet asphalt asphalt so so that the they would always be remembered and so forth Numerous other well have been Invited to do the same since the premiere night But one refused when it was discovered that not all the stone blocks on the ground arc permanent Many of them arc are removable removable and and when your fame fades that block of sidewalk is' is erased and you ou probably cant can't get Into the theater without a ticket Praise someone said Is satire saUre in disguise And one of the most difficult things In the world is to manage the temper of your friends when you ou first burst into public repute and leave them be be be- be hind The nicest thing about being ing ill is that it helps you find out which of your jour friends really are are And then remorse sets In |
