Show Walter WaIter Winchell S BROADWAY B R 0 A D WAY GOSSIP G 0 S SIP Outcasts co 5 Once it was not so hard to say good night nightA A few slow hours and then another another another an an- other meeting Life was a carnival of sheer delight delight de de- de- de light Love was a sweet adventure worth repeating We took no h heed ed of what would follow after We TWe felt so certain bliss bUs had come cometo to stay Shadowy wy streets street reechoed to our l lWe laughter We were so young so arrogant V 5 so gay Carnivals close nor stop to give a reason Even th the gayest laughter dies die's a alas al at last las t. t S There i is an end to every magic s season ason There is a time when sorrow joins the cast V Now when we meet on any sullen day day day- What can we do but look then look then look away Don Don on Wahn There ere are no new Wilson Mizner anecdotes of course But none of his were ever tiresome After great s success at writing plays plas he discovered that the film magnates considered him only so And so he quit and opened a Hollywood restaurant which clicked from the start How SHow do you rou account for your success ss in the restaurant racket a colleague asked him Im a success running a 3 hash house in Hollywood replied Mizner ner because it is easier to stick a 3 steak into their heads than an idea The most recent fisticuffs s reported reported re reo re- re ported from Hollywood recall the inside to the in which Jim Tully and arid Jack Jaek Gilbert were f featured s seasons ago I really di didn't nt mean mean to hit him explained Tully but after he missed five times I thought it best bestas as as he was liable Hable to fan himself to death So I hit him once S S. Jay Kaufman from the Hollywoods Holly Holly- woods relays this Garbo yarn which a cousin of Lew Ayres asserts asserts as as- erts is gospel Ayres was chosen to play the male lead opposite Greta in a pic pie pie- ture The first scene was a 3 long tong kiss So tepid W was U Gar Garbos Garbo's bo's bos lip clinch it scared Lew stiff Garbo let go to catch her breath and then called caned the director she said laid be kind enoff to Introduce me rue to diss dis yo yong g man Robert Garland Bringing a column cot cola to New York Is like bringing a flivver to Detroit troit H. H I. I Phillips As M wrong as an ambulance lance lanc surgeons surgeon's diagnosis Elsie McCormick She has a figure like a ketchup bottle Lillian Hellman HeUman Faded as a road company's com corn p pany's nys ny's Ingen e Clemence Dane We met and she thought Iwas I I. was as a pane of glass Milt Gro Gross Groas Living in the ritz section sc of ot the Bronx is like in a box at any Loews Loew's theater I I. I Elinson They drew away from each other like a pair of lovers in ina a a movie house when hoUe-when when the thc lights go o on In the good old days dl's actors and producers rs were the favorite targets target of the Broadway wits Nowadays the pet targets arc the columnists Last Lut night when the papers reached the stands some of ot ofus ofus' ofus otus' otus us us' were glancing through them Joe Blanks Blank's wit today someone queried I I 1 dunno yet et was the retort Im only up to his hia tenth paragraph para para- graph |