Show Walter BROADWAY GOSSIP The federal men are convinced that they will break the most interesting crime on record the record the Lindbergh snatch A squad of oC picked hand-picked aces still arc are working on it it 24 24 hours every day I hear they have collected some definite clues which Is encouraging They feel reel that the they would have broken the case speedily It if they had been called in promptly At the time anyway there were no federal laws authorizing n them to work on such a R case and it was only by order of oC President Hoover that they were assigned to it at nt all alU Whenever a case breaks nowadays the nowadays the federals dont don't wait wail for instructions They go to work on the case case at once once knowing knowing that it will vill be laid at their doorstep long after alter matters have been bungled bungle I went sent through the new ne' build build- Ins mr for the department of Justl justice e eIn in Washington W recently the lI first t newspaper manthe manthey said to see It It Inside It n. is a handsome edifice and nd the interior walls have mV interesting murals New England nce is represented represented represented rep rep- resented by a fisherman carrying a cod The far west features flowers and the thern sun and other sectors are arc symbolic Pub lie Service however Is a pirate toting toUne a six shooter S Some Same me of the government sleuths feel leel that prohibition did much to get Ithem them disliked by the public The G man it appears became unpopular lar las during those raids raids and and G men are arc associated in the minds of many otherwise sensible citizens with a dr dry snooper It'll Hll be a generation they feel before this is entirely dis O Of course it is gradually being broken down and the G man manIc manIs 1 Is Ic coming more and more to be known as ac the citizens citizen's b best t friend in time of ot serious crimes But that hat feeling remains remains and and the he lad lads are sure that thai the he breaking break bruk- in ing Ine of the he Lindbergh case cue would do more to o reinstate them in the public heart than titan anything else ehe A precedent W was lS set the other night at Yonkers New York when a benefit benefit bene bene- fit performance was given by the Elks Welfare there for poor children The precedent arrived when for forthe forthe forthe the first time I believe half haU the money received was given to the actors who participated Which is as it should have been long ago For where can an actor show his wares today Not many places The business end has decayed de de- dc- dc that much As the actors actor's representative in the matter matter matter-I I am to receive b by check one day this week week week- half hall the y mony-y monY almost 1000 All AU o of which will be turned over to the sector of very ery ill players at Saranac Saranac Sara- Sara nac naco N. N Y 1 All AU concerned indorsed indorsed in in- that plan The long and andrich andrich andrich rich bill of stars who appeared certainly wont won't mind not seeing their names in print They The came there to 10 o h help lp their colleagues In distress anyway not for tor billing I am sure And the reason let Itt it be noted now now why no money Is to o be ghen given gh en CR to the A A. A B B. B A. A Actors' Actors Betterment Betterment Better Better- ment meat is this Dave Vine the founder lounder tells me that the he sum SUIn of collected by that outfit went mainly for salaries to officers in the organization For which shame shame shame f if true I Hubbell I understand is the only baseball pitcher in the major leagues who is allowed to pitch what he wants in fewer r words he sizes up the batters balters himself and doesn't take his ord orders rs from the catcher or manager as other hurlers hurler do Well Wells you ou could have knocked m mover me over with a Jolson when I heard that the gentleman who posed for that equestrian statue at and was was Mr Arthur Brisbane 4 It seems that Mr Br Brisbane bane when a youth was quite a horseman and still is for that thai matter This deals with what probably Is the most expensive bathtub in New York City It Is in Inthe the the old Wendel home where all nIl the rooms used b by that tribe featured fen fen- bathtubs made of ot wood Plus PIus tin inlays d etc A fe few years ago the late Ella Wendel heard about the newfangled boat shaped bathtubs such luch as one sees In tn the cheapest sort eort of furnished room places She decided to have one hers herself cU She engaged a plumber to install one And Anti what do you think he charged her herfor herfor for this most Inexpensive of tubs tubs' Exactly 2800 And Ella poor soul loul paid it without with with- out outa a squawk Not that she needed lie the mone money Suggest cd ed name for a Broadway Simon Lef a e-a e a l Far be it from any of oC us to exact a quip out of ot the Morro Castle disaster but aut pardon my caustic comment I demand an nn investigation I wont want to know how those five passengers gers jers got into that loaded crew lifeboat life life- boat bORt Perhaps Crime Without Passion at the Rialto by Hecht and MacArthur wont won't make you yell great creat a word carelessly used by some observers observers but but it will vIII certainly fascinate you with its rhythm of oC lovely lovey love love- ly y writing and its tinkle o of words Now that I have c Ion on m my long lone trousers I am no lon longer cr surprised at anything However one of my severest critics Mr Marlen Pew the he editor of Editor and Publisher reports report the he test cst of a 3 Roslindale Mass schoolmarm I She Site made a stud study of newspaper newspaper news news- paper reading interests he lie re re- re- re lates Children front from the grade erade to o high school were given Iven givena Ivena a questionnaire We Ve quote Mr l Pew The favorite writer Is Ripley closel closely followed by Will Rogers and md W. W Winchell The test was given to 2863 pupils 1 1133 boys and 1430 girls Iris If It I Were The Roosevelt of oC the Two Two- Reel Comedies Id I'd eliminate all aU sequences sequences se sequences se- se where the alleged comedian says I wont won't wash the dishes and andin andin in n the following sequence he IS washing wash wash- ing ng them All trailers would be eliminated ed that bat advertise Selected Short Subjects because short subjects arc are not selected selected the lie exhibitors having to take fake what they bey get and lump it No actor or actress would be allowed allowed al- al lowed owed to trip grab the tootsie and andreg reg register ter pain animated cartoons long one since having made them seem dated now low The orchids would go to the he producer who'd frankly admit that hat the present two two reel formula is wrong and who would pioneer something some some- thing hing new on the theory that It coul couldn't nt be any worse and worse and it MIGHT be je belter better Id I'd hire humorists like Benchley Frank Sullivan and Jack Cluett et al aI to make them amusing and Id I'd pay them or one of them 1000 weekly instead of hiring five bad writers Titers at At a two-reel two preview Id I'd want to know why 90 per cent of the audience is yawning yawning not not why I I 10 per cent were cackling and cackling and If there here were any applause applause Id Id I'd soon find out whether it was because because be be- cause the picture was over or over or because it was good Not yours ours Mr Ir P. P Smith or W. W Disney Disney Dis Dis- ne ney The blunder in the Morro Castle catastrophe it seems to one of oC us was the delay In summoning nin succor The admission at the investigation a- a tion that thal an hour elapsed between the first message to stand by and the I call for help was explained by Chief Officer Warms I thought he testified I could hold the fire That he was as the last to leave the ship he tie inherited when his captain died hours be before ore has been praL praised d by press and public Chief Officer Warms is to be congratulated The rules set forth by ship owners however can be blamed for lor the great reat loss 1055 of life Warms must have realized that hat his opportunity had arrived to distinguish himself elf for his superiors superiors su su- su- su He lie had command If he had brought the liner home with all on board sa safely safely his his re reward retard ard would have been o of a aliner liner But if he summoned help and it weren't ne necessary essar he would have suffered He tried to save ave money f for r his boss The first boat to arrive in a crisis on the sea rates th the biggest boodle the others receive second and third money And I always thought thought that that ships went to others in distress for the glory that goes zoes oes with saving lives Copyright 1934 by The Daily Mirror |