Show Walter Win hell BROADWAY GOSSIP Reading leading the Homo Home Town Paper Out Loud The four felons who out of oi San Quentin made the same error most prison runaways are arc guilty of Prisoners usually work workout workout workout out a cunning plot to get themselves themselves themselves them them- selves outside the hoosegows hoosegow's walls but once outside its it's usually usual usual- ly a case of little man what now Penologists will tell you that If Ii fugitives gave save tenth one-tenth of or orthe the thought to the getaway they give to the break Itself their chances for freedom would be al almost almost al- al most sure But tho the brain of or ofa ofa ora a man in stir gets all knotted up with the mania for freedom and wont won't let him think of wh what t he will do when he gets It Being Being- Inside in inside In- In side so long his powers for Cor planning planning planning plan plan- ning are cramI cramped ed Incidentally with the cons in San Quentin the phrase isn't in stir or up the river Its It's up north the same as it Is at Folsom California's Dorothy Thompson Mrs Sinclair Sinclair Sinclair Sin Sin- clair Lewis is chased out of Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many beca because se she said f in print that Handsome Adolf was running running running run run- ning the nation Into the red Now Leftward the screaming rang mog accuses her of oC being less Indignant Indignant indignant indig Indig- nant about the whole thing than they are Always the noisiest martyrs are martyrs by remote control Id I'd like to see Broadway honor Dr George Pierce Baker by naming a theater after him Dr Baker who died recently showed Harvard and Yale men how to write pla plays s 's teaching the tho stiff upper lip to Eugene ONeill O'Neill Sidney Howard George Abbott WInthrop Ames Maurine Watkins Watkins Wat- Wat kins Bob and any number number number num num- ber of upper case writers If such sucha a show shop is established the above named and their colleagues would havo have authority to boot into the alley plays that Dr Baker would have frowned on Wonder Vond r why it is that thet the photos photos pho pho- tos of do dogs s in the slippery paper always make them look so world weary and superior They tell me the beagles and hounds th that t run foxes ragged are arc lovable etc but the they dont don't look It Even the news reels which give them thema a better chance show them very vory broad a The mutts pictured In Inthe Inthe Inthe the newspapers on the other hand arc invariably appealing and are good for a sausage and a biscuit from this reader any time It is only recently that editors editors edi edi- tors tars have tumbled to the fact tact that every hick copper has at least one good story in him There aro are about four monthly rags profiting profiling from these reminiscences Some of the crimes are dug out of ot the files iles of the nineties and whether It Is good for you OU or not they make fascinating reading Chief Chic OConnor O'Connor head of ot the St. St Paul force years ago once said a bragging bragging bragging brag brag- ging harness bull was more entertaining entertaining enter enter- taming than Balzac You'd think that 25 years of or failure allure would convince a writer that it would be better to earn his bread at something else But who just hauled down the tho Nobel prize tolled toned from 1890 to 1915 for lor ravioli and wine money Figured out In dollars the Nobel prize of OOOO or so isn't much pay for Cor 25 years of labor of any kind Maybe we squawk too much about the boors and bores that wreck first nights In his book Passing Judgments just out George Jean Nathan argues they were worse 25 years ago So were the plays he lie contends But Butin Butin Butin in those days you didn't risk your life in traffic walking out on both bothof bothof bothof of them |