Show WALTER WINCHELL ON BROADWAY Copyright 1933 Daily Mirror Minor Inc PORTRAIT OF A MAN TALKING TO HIMSELF It has been an In exciting visit to Hol Hol- lywood And by the end of ot this week the adventure ends until ends until next year perhaps By the end of ot this week a dozen celebrated persons will pinch hit lor for your New York correspondent corre corre- and and during the alleged holiday there holiday there will be trains to ride and problems to unwind for the strenuous new season To the gentlemen gen tiemen and and gentlewomen of the movie colony I r am indeed indebted for lor some jolly times To the newspaper newspaper news news- paper men even the opposition press RO go o my thanks for this and that You'd suspect t that when a reporter from the cast east invades their community the the opposition newspapers would put on the chill but only one of them did I 1 I wish I could promise them all the same reception should any of them invade New York City City City- where too many of ot the lads resent competition At any rate I leave Hollywood in a few days days days-a a little pensive pen sive for sive-for for besides the hospitality the hospitality the much kidded d climate is hardly to be found in my home town In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York I will be bothered again ain by the oppressive heat and humidity which humIdity which Is a tough combination to beat And then will come the treacherous winds in the winter winter which which make me meso meso meso so so afraid Carrying with them epi demies of ot dreaded plagues which plagues which s-which which man cannot combat comba combat successfully The very reminder of its dangers lets me down Perhaps the skyline of ot the town will lift me up again Or maybe I really need a vacation a a. a The breaks are necessary necessary and and here is added proof that they are The Forgotten Man movie which reveals actual scenes from the big bij war var was the attraction In a 1 Pittsburgh Pitts PiUs burgh playhouse playhouse doing doing big business During one performance a woman woman wooman wo woo man shrieked and then fainted Later she explained that while watching the movie she suddenly saw her brother as he crawled wounded and gassed from a muddy trench After the war he returned to his family lam fain il ily but later died She could not control her emotions when she saw his likeness on the screen Of course this was a line fine break for the movie picture picture and and the press agent raced to the newspaper with wilh his true story And it was wa-s accepted But that same day the newsboys went on strike and would not p permit papers to tobe tobe tobe be peddled as Some of at us were discussing the late Larry Fay again and how he adored a chorus girl And how he went Into a rage when any fellow sent her posies and asked for tor a date I Iwas Iwas Iwas was reminded of the time that Fay Pay who has since fallen alien before an assassins assassins assassin's assassins assassin's assas assas- sins sin's lead phoned an actor who was paying the chorus lassie marked a atten atten- tion This was was just just about the time several years ears ago that the expression Take you for a ride was making the rounds Fay Fay in in n a a temper phoned the actor Llen you thundered the tough gU guy if U you dont don't lay off oU calling on her Ill her Ill I'll take you OU for lor a aride aride ride This it appears didn't impress im im- press the actor for the moment He He naively replied I dont don't need you to take lake me mc for lor any ride at all all I I have my own car carl And then he hung up When he was Informed by paLs pal x ls what the expression meant meant meant-he he took ook a liner for London that night S S S The only people who stun me as the days unfold untold are those Ive I've befriended who who suddenly turn sour A few months ago while I was on the air aira air air- a chap thap visited me at the broadcasting station and told me that because he was unhappy in his radio association and that he missed being away from his ils wife wile who was elsewhere he was quitting the job sob He feared he added that his severest critics handling han han- dung the radio sections and others would call him a l failure Would I please explain the facts to the radio listeners He sat next to me as asI asI asI I went into a flowery talk about his retirement his word for it of course He was most grateful Shortly after alter when rhen it was said of him that he was slipping sUpping a hastened into print with Yeh Yen hes he's slipping so o far his his rivals cant can't catch up to him himl And there were numerous other sugary items penned about the fellow And never has there appeared in Ln my column anything offensive to him So what happened So So now he Is angry because of something somebody told himI had said d out o of print Which I And it is all most confusing S SS Heres Here's another thing Ive I've wanted to yell out loud That no time in my newspaper career have I used my pular pillar pil pu- lar to retaliate for any personal tiffs But it must not be assumed either that because of ot a tiff with a producer a manager an actor or a newspaperman when news about them brea breaks and I can get it first that first that I wont won't publish it And when I hear an amusing an anecdote about them I must give it circulation tion for tion-for for that is my stock in trade The chief reason why I have avoided using the column to slap back at pedestrians who have slapped me mc out of print is that the average reader would consider it a foul blow and sa say Hes mad so hes he's getting even Rather than have that said said said-I id-I id I have thrown away the chance of making making mak make ing an antagonist sicker via the press which is something most columnists dont don't do for do-for for their columns it appears appears appears ap ap- pears are their only weapons weapons-a a confession confession con con- of being yellow S S S SI I have kidded such renowned men menas menas menas as Rudy Valee mercilessly for years but but not because of ot an any personal rea rca son I merely enjoyed teasing tearing him And what did Rudy do He clowned downed me out of it it-by it by not getting indignant He merely haw hawd My only aggravation came a afew afew afew few years ago when St St. John Ervine a British critic reviews for forthe forthe forthe the old New York World For seven ven months I teased him I called him im St. St Yawn Yan Ervine or Irksome and other silly things I 1 tried to bait him him lim into a feud not feud not only to fill m my column but to get some attention from rom this distinguished visitor But the big egg Ignored me until I could have choked Instead I 1 Imade made him better known throughout hout America for America for for I am syndicated in all the he states and he What a chump I WEtS was was was' Since then o oi of course I have learned much Nowadays I am at getting getling and desperate for recognition rec rec- fools to pick on me One of f them recently admitted in his column that the one thing his readers are most Interested in Is his feud with me But to get back to Er Er- vine He even matters fine After Ignoring me for seven months here where I wanted and needed attention at at- he waited until he returned to o England where in an interview he said I I enjoyed my visit to America v Everybody was was- pleasant There was only one minor disturbance A writer named Walter something or other Was my face green He couldn't even remember my name I only wish I owned the hat hatcheck hatcheck hatcheck check privilege on all people who hoped it was vas nothing trivial |