Show Walter Winchell Eddie Cantor serving as a master mas mas- ter of ot ceremonies the other night set a refreshing precedent Instead Instead In Irs- stead of clogging up the proceed proceed- ings with wind windy oratory and the usual exaggerated prefaces he announced announced an an- the various entertainers by byname byname name viz Sophie Tucker Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Jim my Durante and so on It was such a relief Among other things to agree with is the yipping of or Mr Nathan the critic who says that the chief bore with all Gilbert Gilbert Gil Gil- bert and Sullivan revivals is the audience A in th the wilds rebukes Ruth Etting for tor considering considering considering con con- retirement She charges the song magician with having no love for her art and proceeds to say that if it Miss Etting does quit then the radio probably will miss nothing much Which is a new low in ignorance The various Ruth sing for a living not for art the art the same as writers on the papers and other boon Nobody can say My friends with such sincerity as F. F D D. R. R says it Edgar Edear Lee Masters the poet dwells in m obscurity in New York A thousand years hence men will seek seck out his jottings for their counsel That's a very disturbing piece Clayton Hamilton has in the Mer Mer- cury oury About the Pulitzer prizes going to people for whom they weren't meant He was on the jury which quit after their play choice was last year and the orchid was pinned on Men in White which they paddled out of 01 the running Hamilton also asserts asserts asserts as as- that thai the prize for history went to a volume that was jeered and anti hooted by recognized historians And as is for the best editorial that year he writes It read like a satire on hick town journalism and was reprinted as an amusing example of ot unconscious humor inmost inmost in inmost most of ot the leading newspapers throughout the country Mr Hamilton doesn't go CO so far as to say however that the Pulitzer committee commit commit- tee actually has any anything thin against those it honors Charles March who parented the play called Symphony which arrived arrived ar are ar- ar rived on Friday night and left the next began the pIa play with a long excerpt from The Prophet b by Kahlil Gibran Later there was a generous lilt lift from Hamlet And throughout kowsky's Symphony was heard i Critics spoke well of ot the these in insertions in- in But they strenuously objected to the author intruding his own writing into the show In one of his essays Burton Rascoe's complaint is that no body of otmen f men apologize so much for tor their comme comments com corn me ments ts as do the dramatic critics critics- which is true Elmer Rices Rice's bIg biff squawk against them was that several several several sev sev- eral of ot them come ome to the premieres drunk Such tippling Mr Rice claimed disqualified the imbi imbiber r as a drama guesser Were I 1 a play sp sponsor I would exert ever every effort to get the the critics critics to have several several sev sev- eral drinks thirty minutes before the curtain lifted Liquor usually usually ally Uy brings brines on on a state o of amiable mellowness One of us drinks chiefly to get up enough courage to sit it out at least one act At widely scattered intervals the morning mail brings an eyebrow lifter such as this one lone A lecturer lecturer lec lee in the provinces advertises his act as the man mart who put Clarence Clarence Clar ence erice Darrow and Winchell in their place The Incident eludes one of us Mr James the newspaper newspaper newspaper per editor in irs an interview points out that his gazette has prospered I without clowns and and adds that he trusts a greater majority of ot the public would read Mr Lippmann instead of ot Mr Win- Win chell Being cast in such talented talented talented tal tal- tal- tal comp company ny is compliment enough always argued argued argued ar ar- ar- ar gued that no person could complain complain complain com com- plain legitimately over a bad no so tice The very fact tact he said that you write about him is honor indeed The trouble with Mr theory is that not enough people who hit too hard have read cad him S |