Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-24 | Page 4 | Walter Winchell on Broadway

W Walter al ter Winchell ON ON BROADWAY BROADWAY- Why Walt faIt Once You Were One Oh Percy Hammond how Hammond how right you were when yo you w wrote ote t that at classic crack which Ill I'll ll keep repeating every time I 1 encounter people like that The more you do for an actor t tie e more IT de despises despises do- do you your Sordid End lof f a Naughty Boy And now to go to work on another aggravation aggravation tion and irritation For two years a youngster has been parading the Broadway area telling the people that he was my ghost writer or that he hc could arrange news to be printed in my column and even stop it from being published And numerous numerous numerous nu nu- nu- nu other fibs 1 hear so many tales about such birds that long ago I wearied of bothering to catch up with them The iThe same chap had the gall gaIl to send me letters v with ith veiled threats threats say say ing among other things things if if I I wanted to be nasty I 1 could tell teIl some things I 1 know about you etc Of course the letters are on file Not long ago he got ot himself a broadcast job which was described by radio observers as the most flagrant copy of Winchell yet yetI He lasted exactly one broadcast by the way What to do with such a aguy auy guy uy Forget him of course Which was what I did And then I wondered what bec became me of him 1 I just found out out out-by by reading a brief news item in a New York It It stated 25 paper a writer was sentenced to five days in jail yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day by Magistrate Erwin in West Side Court had been fined 10 after he was found guilty of putting a slug in a telephone box See America First One of the better known wn New York girls re returned returned returned re- re turned from Paris last week and she gushed and about her trip to the Eiffel Tower hei heights Have you ever been to the top of Al At Smiths Smith's Empire State building one of us asked her She hadn't She never thought of seeing New NewYork NewYork NewYork York New Jersey and the Sound that way at all And I 1 suppose many of us here haven't gone to the story of Smiths Smith's tower tower but but were we weIn wein wein in Paris wed we'd certainly take in the Eiffel Eifel Tower which is a midget by comparison And so some of us went there the other day day and and in in two minutes minutes' our elevator had reached the top It Itis Itis Itis is indeed among th the thrills Im I'm glad I finally had Broadway with its maze of color seemed like one of the miniatures they build Jar for the thc screen