| Show ALONG BROADWAY WITH WINCHELL Jf Pet Fancies Show Quirks Among Theatrical Folks By W WALTER ALTER Theatrical folk tolle being really more superstitious than sophisticated sophisticated sophisticated and nd possessed of fertile imagination create pet fancies as M unique as they are arc inexplicable One famous comic for good goodluck goodluck goodluck luck always wears his suspenders suspenders ders reversed Lee Tr Tracy y totes around a n papier mache fire firo hydrant hydrant hIs his lucky talisman There is the tradition that a Barrymore Barrymore Barrymore Bar- Bar must have an apple on opening night To keep th the show doctor away Jimmy Durante was was truly mortified for once when an admirer presented him recently with a toy jeweled elephant elephant but but nt-but but with its trunk t to the ground Every Intelligent person knows that such an elephant ele dc- dc is ls bound to jinx the wear wear- er The clay statue of a a. negro youth in A. A H. H Woods' Woods office is Dop a Do p potent tent factor in the selection of ot Woods' Woods plays plays- The producer holds up a likely play before the statue and and should the figure seem to smile and nod that nod that settles it A new new show new show is considered doomed should one one enthuse about It be before before before be- be fore a premiere Actors prefer I their friends to predict the tho show will wUl flop flop to to enhance the plays play's chance for success Chorines dip their fingers ers ers' ersinto into spilled champagne and dry them on the back of either cither tar for for car good goodluck goodluck luck Adams county Illinois has a population of and by actual actual actual ac ac- ac- ac count over different superstitions a few typical ones here appended Before you re return return return re- re turn for something youve you've forgotten forgot forgot- ten ten take take nine steps backward and expectorate over your left shoulder Or else when youve you've returned you you should count seven backward and whirl around like a a. dervish Even Winston Vinston Churchill English statesman never returns for a forgotten ar ar- ar tide A girl with hairy limbs will marry a wealthy man You can give people a headache by turning their pictures upside down If lt butter falls alls under the chair the chair the tho family auto will willbe willbe willbe be stolen Dreaming of ot fried onions indicates a friend is very Ill And that If you bury your husbands husband's old pair of socks socks hell hell he'll never flever leave home bome About a million educated people peo pee plo residing in five Pennsylvania counties believe that you can prevent prevent prevent pre pre- vent children ever getting the mumps mumps mumps-by by rubbing them against I A G pig trough Supreme Court Justice Stone a 81 master mind while a recent decision was pendIng pendIng pending pend pend- ing refused to have his palm read For fear they could read his mind Ind Just prior to the Notre Dame Dame- Northwestern football game three years ago ago ago- Coach Anderson of ot the tho former team supplied every member member member mem mem- ber with a rabbit foot If It we dont don't win now said Andy we uwe never will Notre NoIre Dame won But how an an animal anima unlucky to lose its life can prove lucky to its possessors possessor has bas yet et to be bo determined deter deter- mined During the same came season season sea sea- son eon at Carnegie students at the citadel of culture exchanged the coach's sombrero for a derby to derby to pull the team out of Its slump Previous Coach Wally Vally Stephens had credited his wins to a derby Another Harvard Instructor never sings before breakfast breakfast- lest he cry before night Another never brags If he did his did his luck would change And yet another n. a a psychologist no less always less always sees the new moon but only over his right shoulder He doesn't have to yo you understand But it would prey on his mind l if he didn't Any week containing Friday 13 3 gains added distinction and everywhere in n the western world many an enterprise e will be postponed postponed post post- Oven even ven well planned burglaries bur bur- glance The Cunard Line a most practical and har headed hard headed c concern one erie recent Friday 13 ordered ordered or or- der dered d the S. S So S. S Aquitania to to stavin stay stav In port long past sailing schedule until until the first minute of the next day On this day K Kentucky Ken Ken- n. n tucky tacky rustics wear ear odd to shoes to fend off ill luck Friday 13 3 forebodes o r o evil to certain dauntless dauntless daunt daunt- less groups the groups the 13 clubs who welcome the day with renewed i activity The They argue that by flouting tradition they ar are not superstitious Yet their very notion no no- tion that tion-that that luck comes by sites sites-Is' is in Itself a superstition Speaking of lucky numbers Long before the opening of ot the Empire State building prospective prospective prospective tive tenants almost clawed each other and did In Jn fact offer otter a bonus to secure a certain room A mountain of available offices were turned down Give them only room Superstitions prevalent In Jn Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska Ne Ne- braska For good luck pass a anew anew anew new baby around the leg of ot a table Name two apple seeds Put them on a hot stove If they hop together together the the two people so named flamed will wUl marr marry Dropping a slice of ot bread is a sign the price of wheat will fall A well known restaurant In Rome employs employs employs em em- ploys a hunchback as head wait walt er It is contended he brings good luck to the establishment establishment- an antidote against the Evil Eye An Ozark mountaineer who sees a a spider in the middle of f the road road road-is Is th thus s informed that a letter awaits him at the postoffice These mountain I dwellers of Missouri and Arkansas Arkan Arkan- sac sas sa avoid nightmares nightmares-by by going to bed backward They know that if you don your nightgown inside out there out there will vill be a fire tire in town And that you can cure curea a cold blister with ease Just kiss kissa a dogs dog's head |
