Show WALTER WINCHELL Copyright 1933 Dally DaIly Mirror Inc THINGS THAT BURN nURN ME UP AND KNOCK ME COLD You probably ob observed an interesting complaint here recently It concerned a dance director charged by his 16 dancing girls with having failed them in the matter of wages They agreed their indictment stated to ac accept accept ac- ac instead of 40 which they received in a show for which the same man assembled them them but but when they appeared in vaudeville for him him him-he he deducted another without without their permission The young director lost no time making a vigorous denial denial and and hoped that this pillar would contradict the charges He blamed the girls for concocting such a story because I canceled Bu Buffalo alo etc The following day he forwarded two letters to this desk One from a member of the booking booking booking book book- ing department which assumes the blame blame and and another letter Jetter signed by some of the girls The latter letter offers a clean slate forthe director and the gals exceedingly regret having blamed him etc The night before when the director vowed he would submit such letters letters letters-he he was cautioned that any letter from the girls must not be promoted promoted promoted pro pro- via the intimidation route That the girls must not be frightened into penning or signing such a n retraction He promised he wouldn't do such a thing He wasn't that sort he added S When the letter from the kids arrived arrived we we suspected that they had been scared into sending sending send send- ing lag it We phoned some of them to ask what pressure had been brought They timidly confessed confessed confessed con con- that they were led to understand that if we didn't sign the letter he was submitting to you the circuit would never again engage us Therefore the original story here stands That writes one of the kids would have brought my mother brothers and myself food for three days As it is I must try and try again to borrow from someone Thanks for taking taking taking tak tak- ing this up for us We Ve felt feIt we could get from you some satisfaction satisfaction and and that if we went to Equity about it nothing would happen Equity is all for one and that ONE is the producer Equity is so smug and satisfied with the steps onward it made years ago The stars get the breaks not breaks we unimportant chorus girls S e S S Sixteen a a sum of 40 Somebody Somebody- whether it is the dance director the booking department of Borros Morros can Morros-can can blush a little with the shame of it Its It's a form of petty lar lar- ceny And we want to remind anybody that whenever we hear of managers producers directors directors di directors di- di rectors et al handing chorus girls or others such misdeals that misdeals that this corner will be in the c corner of Master and Miss Nobody who Nobody who are tomorrows tomorrow's We wish the sixteen girls would call caU at this office to get their respective Its It's a bargain bargain bargain bar bar- gain for us us-to us to shame the villains concerned all the more S S S SI I think the daily columns on Washington by Drew Pearson and Robert S. S Allen who did Washington Merry-Go Merry Round are among the best of the political news pillars Plenty of zip zip zip-a a departure from the feeble fables formerly former former- ly fashioned by floozies who floozies who were usually on the take from the politicians they penned about Most interesting to me was was' their recent info on Allen AlIen W. W Dulles Dunes who was recently made Honorary Minister by the State Dept He sailed for to negotiate for disarmament and the ward This must have pleased J. J P. P Morgan who more than any banker is interested in the war debts Dulles certainly has an in hi at Washington Washington particularly with the State Dept Dept but but I thought that no bankers or their kin or associates could crash our State Dept And Dulles is a ju junior junior junior ju ju- partner for Sullivan Cromwell who are the attorneys for Morgan |