Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-28 | Page 4 | Walter Winchell on Broadway

f Walter Winchell ON ON BROADWAY BROADWAY- If I Were ere the Aladdin of Hollywood One of the he very first things Id I'd do after rubbing my lamp would lamp would be to prohibit theaters from running more than one feature flicker Imagine having to sit through three or four long movies before you see the best part of t the e show which usually is the newsreel S C If I were head man of you can life Jile Id I'd never never never allow four transcontinental transcontinental transcontinental bus films five women spy pictures two telephone repair men sagas and Grand Hotel Hotel Hotel Ho Ho- tel to come out at the very er same time or or even the same year I S S There'd also be an academy prize for the best son song of the year as well as the best picture and producer and actor etc Man Many a second-rate second film has been saved by a hit tune tunc a a Producers who have lost all touch with the people people peo peo- pie and who inject savagery lust Just and bloodshed scenes because their jaded senses dont don't react to ordinary emotions any more would be forced to spend a month each year as ushers in a small town movie theater C S The same voices in the newsreels week after week which get et monotonous would be among my outs Id I'd change the music too S a aId Id I'd see to it t that at Bert Wheeler r one of the better better bet bet- ter comics was in a funny comedy In fact Id I'd like to see Mr Woolsey in one too S a a Nobody would be permitted to bore anybody with slapstick stuff Only Chaplin and W. W C. C Fields know how without how without being dull S a 4 Since it will be done some some sone da day Id I'd make a a apic picture pic pie ture turc out of Green Pastures which is is really a challenge to the theY camera Even the feeble echo of this play done as a scene in was a ahiL hit hiL a a a aId Id I'd stop press press' agents from saying an actress was vhs educated in a convent when you can see she came from a ha hash hah h house o