| Show WALTER WINCHELL ON BROADWAY Copyright 1933 Daily Mirror Inc AT T SUCH A TIME TRIE YET On the sky roof of the St. St Moritz the theother theother theother other 2 a. a m. m Julius Tannen told the he one about Mr l and Mrs t wItz victims of a bombing in Chiago Chi Chi- cago ago because they told the cops about a shakedown Their store and Hat flat above it were blown to splinters and the news photographers photographers pho pho- went into what was left of the parlor and proceeded to take photos o of the ruins now asked the distressed Mrs of her son They want to take tak picures pic pie tures ures he explained Oy vay she exclaimed vitt litt de deplace deplace deplace place lookin like diss II INCIDENTALLY Mr Tannen by the way who finally finaly final final- ly y got in the radio recently is the chap hap who cannot be distressed b by hecklers In Vanities once his routine routine rou roue tine was by a What That at is this yelled the heckler night Yeah said Julius wanna go on tI 0 e s THERE NOW David Freeman is supposed to have stilled stifled a ham at a benefit performance perform ance the other night It seemed that this his actor strenuous strenuously objected to goIng gong go go- Ing ng on after an act featuring white mice Youre perfectly right said Dave they may think its it's an encore 4 IT MUST BE TilE THE SUN According to one of those silly movie mag interviews George Rafts Raft is s quoted we prefer to believe he was quoted as remarking Id rather drive a truck than be a star starl Oh George stop 0 DUNN GOOD Jimmy Dunn one of the more affable af aft fable screen guys related this adventure adventure ad ad- venture while dining in a clip cUp joint in Havana Dunn unk unknowingly entered the shady spot and proceeded proceed proceed- ed to order for two The dinner he ordered featured two roast ducks The bill for lor which was vias 40 Hey squawked Jimmy this his Forty bucks for ducks ducks are are they that scarce around here No was the candid retort but movie stars are 4 S SVERY VERY YOU SAY SAYIn SAYIn SAYIn In Mr Arthur Brisbane's thesis on How to be a Better Rep Reporter one finds the following counsel Learn to edit your copy Strike out most of your adjectives remembering the frenchmans frenchman's remark The adjective adjectives Is s the enemy of the noun Strike out very very alwa always s 's Very good sir sh PRACTICAL JOKE The newest wrinkle started by one of the city's more Imaginative nuisances nuis nuis- ances Is ances-Is is being done in several speakeasies speak speak- castes by some of the better drinking citizens If It a call comes asking for Joe or John or anybody the anybody the management not wishing to disturb the party who is busy spending tells the voice He isn't here You may get gel him at Stuyvesant 9 The caller of course rings that number which sad to relate is the residence of John S. S Sumner the prominent vice cru crusader der The poor man we hear is being awakened at atall atall atall all hours and i is becoming more or orless orless orless less disgusted with the whole busi nes ness S Dont Don't you bother disturbing Mr Sumner It is La probably a safe wager to make that his number has since been changed S S I NEWSPAPER STUFF No gab about reporters is complete without a crack about Red Dolan who jilted Park Row for Hollywood There was the time Dolan assigned to lo an Indian murder story near the Canadian border wired the paper for lor expense coin coin eom Harvey Duell DueH his editor sent him hin half that much with this squelch Heres What What t c hell are those Indians doing up there there run run running ning night clubs S S NICE TO HIS DIS MOTHER T THO O When Then Mr Taintor edited the old Globe he described a columnist as the guy who invades invade everybody's department department de de- de- de for his stuff on the paper paper- and makes everybody on the paper sore Life argued that a columnist was a person who really believed that his column is the first thing the readers readers read ers turn to toJ J C C. says the columnist column is a vr re rewrite te man with a superiority superior ity complex and one whose tag escapes escapes escapes es es- es- es capes us observed that a columnist Is a louse who does his knocking after leaving the room instead of ot before entering entering en it it S S S HAW RAW Believe Belie this or don't dont but dont but the publisher pub lisher Usher of ot one of ot the better New York newspapers told it to us himself It appears that during a recent week week two two of his editors were on their holidays and their assistants were taken suddenly ill and confined to th the ailing rooms In sum for the first time in the history of that or any other newspaper newspaper newspaper-it it went to press all week without an editor and gained circulation Now turn back to the above paragraph paragraph para para- graph and read that credited credited cred credo to Life S a a Hollywood is appropriately called Heartbreak Town to hear some of the victims groan about it Take the plight of ot Nicholas Coste a Georgian who in the movies in Germany was a tremendous success Last year Fox Films sent for or him they him they gave him a six months contract plus the usual option At the end of ot the six months durIng during dur duro ing which he did nothing because of his faulty English he hc was discharged He came to New York hoping to get a ajob ajob ajob job on the stage Finally without funds fun he landed a job with a rival movie company Running the elevator |
