Show WALTER WINCHELL ON BROADWAY C Copyright 1933 Dally Daily Mirror Inc Ine ITEMS IS By Frank Sullivan Not long alter after I came to New York 14 4 years ago Darling you are grow grow- Ing ng ol-der ol I drifted into the habit of occasionally seeking refuge from the he intolerable and unearthly silence of New Yorks York's streets in the cheerful hullabaloo of various of the towns town's hot hor spots I would sit for an nn hour on ona ona a high stool before the bar e contemplating plating my novel which I never did didget didget didt get t around to writing or discussing with the bartender on duty the latest trends rends In art literature and gang war war- fare are a By and large I must have witnessed a great many interesting sights in those hose days but the unfortunate part of f it was that nothing really exciting happened until after alter 4 o'clock in the morning and I could never remember anything that happened after alter What follows are a few cf the milder Incidents that between 1130 and 3 Anyone desir desiring ng to know what happened between 3 and noon will have hn lave to wait until Winchell gets back from rom his vacation S 4 Item one one one-A A winter night in a cozy hideaway on the tise East side The only customers at the bar were a gentleman gentle gentle- man nan at the other end and my myself ell He s seemed scorned med moody moody gazed gazed into his glass darkly Obviously a l man with a secret ecret gnawing at his heart hearl I was idly scanning canning a theater program and this must have stamped me rae as a member of cf the literati for the moody gentleman gentleman gentle gentle- man suddenly turned to the barkeep pointed to me and said Ask that poet noet i if hell he'll have a drink with me The poet accepted with pleasure Glasses were replenished and lifting lilting mine with that fine tine courtesy that has ha made me the envy of half hall or at least 56 of the colonels on the staff start of Governor Ruby Laffoon oon of Kentucky I said Happy Days Days' His face ace clouded and he gave me mea a sour look Happy Days Hell he said I just lost ost my appeal and I got to do of em in Atlanta i Item J i two two Another Another night at the same hideaway two friends friends- of mine na Ma little worse for wear as Harold Harald Ross loss would put it were trying to explain cx ex plain two different matters to each other at the same time and at the end of the first 15 minutes of the symposium sym matters were tangled Dimly sensing this one of the boys placed his hand land on the shoulder of vis-a-vis vis and said earnestly Now Bob listen I dont don't want you to think Im I'm not In coherent 4 0 Item three is not from New NewYork York City ily but bul from Saratoga Springs Queen of Spas and Pearl of the Ocd dent One rainy night in late September Septem ber up there I crept out of the cold and wet into an oasis of warmth to to seek a little cheerful human com corn Some time later the door opened and out of the night there there During Ill I'll Wailer Waller alter Wine jells two weeks weeks' holiday his column will be bc written writ by celebrated friends appeared an Incredibly bedraggled and sooty figure He tottered to the bar a n drink he ordered Why should I 11 asked the proprietor tor Who are you OU The stranger drew v himself up with dignity I I he revealed am am the Last Rose of the Mohicans He got the drink Later in the evening eve ning I heard again from the Last Rose of the Mohicans Propped in a safe e corner of ot the bar where he could fall only In one direction he was reproaching a fellow barfly he suspected sus of ot having just jurt maligned himI him I I 1 hear you ou warned the Last Rose Hear cv ev word say I may maybe maybe be rc tight bu my minds mind's clear Im I'm a thick er II o a 4 Item four The four The counselor was a n aman aman man who devoted three days a n month to getting systematically and thoroughly thoroughly thor thoro tight The first two days he could r walk talk but hut on the thc third f d day y yh h he was n not quite quit conscious S enough to order himself himsel a drink when needed He did this giving one little finger a barely perceptible wiggle in hi the direction of at the thc bark barkeep p. p On the evening of one of the counselors counselor's third da days s 's he was sitting at the bar with his head on his elbow and his elbow el ci bow on the bar He had been in that thai position since early in the thc day daX Suddenly he decided to s shift t Im hi 1 position b but bit t in m doing so his hie elbow m missed sred the bar and the counselor went crashing from his stool to the floor Lou Tommy and Al rushed to the rescue but the counselor W was 13 already on his feet teet and for tor the first time that day vocal matter matter he demanded sternly Cant a fellah wisecrack a little S 0 04 Item five In five In the same place one night when two gents were trying to have a little heart to heart talk but were handicapped by a total stranger in a captious mood who insisted insisted in on injecting himself into their conversation to disagree with everything every thing they said and disapprove of everything they did They were becoming slightly an annoyed noyed when Lou the proprietor came up and persuaded their critic to retire re rc- rc tire to a taxicab Next night when the weather had cleared Lou explained I 1 thought I better get you away from the bar last night I guess you dont don't remember but those two fellows you were bawling out were Legs Diamond Dia mond and one of his men The outer bawler was your humble and since then very cagey servant |