Show WALTER WINCHELL ON BROADWAY I Copyright 1933 Dally Daily Mirror Inc THIS TOWN OF OURS The newest story dealing with the recent Broadway adventures of Aimee Semple emple McPherson l is by far the most amusing musing I think One of the executives o of the Capitol theater tried ried to persuade the evangelist to toIve give Ive it all up in the middle of the week He wasted no words with her ler although he hc wasn't caustic We both have made a huge mistake he e said the business Is hardly what we anticipated you really should quit Miss Hiss McPherson l If you will leave the bill now now we we will send out a statement statement state state- ment merit to the press that you suddenly were vere vere stricken with laryngitis What do o you say Aimee Almee didn't lose her poise at all No she cooed God wouldn't like lies a The return of f Emil LudwIg and the passing assing of Horace Liveright reminds us s of this one In 1925 when Ludwig was comparatively unknown in America Amer Amer- Ica ca Mr Liveright men rien prospering as s a publisher bought his book Napoleon Napoleon Na oleon After the tome became such uch a success Liveright sent Ludwig two wo checks In appreciation When Ludwig returned to America two years cars later in the meantime having r received enormous royalties on oct other books he met Liveright and told him that he should have paid him considerably more for Napoleon A t heated argument ensued in the publishers publisher's pub pub- ushers isher's office which ended when Ludvig Ludvig Lud Lud- vig wig jumped up and bellowed Who made Napoleon famous anyway anyway- you or I I Incidentally at the funeral of Liv right Theodore Dreiser was obviously obvious obvious- ly y more furious than saddened Be Be- cause Upton Sinclair had been select select- ed d to make mak the mournful oration and nd he tie had to sit and listen to it HI On Park Ave there Is a mansion three apartment three floors a replica of the ho Versailles Palace the beds linens linns lin un ens ns and other knIckknacks knacks being imported imported im im- im ported from the old country There isn't another like it it perhaps in the nation And AncI who do you imagine is the he current boarder there there there-a a Rockefeller Rocke Rocke- feller kin or a La Morgan Well hard hard- ly lyThe y The present tenant is John P. P Medbury a columnist who between columns pr prepares pares the Insane chatter which ha has made Gracie Allen famous Tho The man who built buIll and furnished the amazing place which features a radio radio ra rat ra- ra dio costing cant can't afford to live in It 10 When your correspondent was put put- ing ting away his hoofing boots and taking take tak tak- tak ing up In itt 1921 the 1921 the woman woman wo wo- S man of this paragraph was the richest of the sketch AH At ne time for or Instance instances s had 40 different big big- time Ime acts paying her immense royal royal- ties ies every week Things were rosy Indeed and her husband who was in the money too pooled their joint savings and began an Independent moving picture company company com com- pany in Holly Hollywood wood It 12 It didn't jell It seems and although he might have gone into voluntary bankruptcy the I easiest way out he had a conscience He Insisted upon paying back every penny As a 8 result resul they lost their rc respective fortunes fortunes and and when their money was gone the breaks kept turning sour as they usually do In Hollywood at the time was an old pal now a star They grew up with him When he used to dwell with them when things were tough for him he wore her husbands husband's best ti ties and suits etc And so when hunger ached their frames the wife wrote him a note Please she said send us 50 we weare weare weare are desperate There was no reply She sent a second letter but it went unanswered Shortly after her after her husband passed on from on-from from heartache they said but probably from malnutrition And what did the former pal who refused refined to forward 50 smackers do He sent senta a blanket of orchids to the funeral which must have have- cost him It wouldn't amaze amale me to learn that his name was spelled out In huge letters letterson on It at that 0 e e eIt It is big news in Evansville Ind but it should be news news to the country at large larce considering that almost almo t every every ev ev- ery cry citizen clUzen and his kin kIri are whistling I humming or singing the first few lines of the grooms groom's song the best known in America today The bride is Carolyn Carolyn Caro Care lyn Kay Shafer secretary to Walt Disney the creator of Mickey Mouse and the Silly Symphonies and she was married in June to Frank Edwin Churchill a composer of Los Angeles Angeles Ange Ange- les who wrote Afraid of the S B B. 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B W WV a J 0 You probably read the thc comments from Charlie Chaplin in the gazettes recently about his time long-time friend Jim Tully To the amazement of their countless acquaintances and admirers and others Chaplin took a sock at Tully In printers printer's Ink No one is certain cere tain lain why At any rate here her Is a copy of a letter sent by Tully to the famous fa ia- comedian Dear Charles Like all dutiful children chil chit dren I took your comments upon me meto meto meto I to my year old ld ditch digging fa fa- fa a. a ther You will remember how you said that throwing mud was WM my in I My papa not being an act act- or or Is a subtle man who reads very well I So he said sald ye threw mud did he An did he say that the mud ye threw was wit silver God has been good to me youngest and cleverest clever est brat May the fire In yere brain go o out Well Vell Papa I said why dont don't you write a letter to Charlie ChapAh ChapAh Chap- Chap Un Ah said the old man ian I cant can't find finda a ghost writer in all aU this Ohio swamp Maybe you can get the fellow who wrote rote Charlies Charlie's letter for him I suggested t Now niver talk that way sold said my father Yc Xe must be above the personal thing thing yere yere may may her shade In its grave rejoice would rejoice would have ye so Suppose ye wanted to be mean mem and suppose he had called ye e a hobo ye wouldn't call him a little guttersnipe guttersnipe guttersnipe gutter gutter- snipe back would ye Sure not yere too big fer that Only snobs do sich things thin Like yere own father yere yore a thrower of honorable mud an an ye wouldn't ketch Charlie Chaplin callin callina I a man the thing he was in the days of his lis hunger But why cant can't I answer him father Because me son ye yere re too fair a abye abye bye jye to turn a machine gun on a canary ca nary that nary that Is u Mister Chaplins Chaplin's a comedian comedian an an they say he kin hardly spell the words wit which hes he's not gifted So be big me bye be big big- may it niver be said of ot me rae ruffian roWan son that he attacked actors an chit chil- dern ner ncr indulged in the little words So Charlie Im I'm taking my fathers father's advice I 1 extend my hand in sorro sorroW sorrow Jim Tully |