Show ALONG BROADWAY Af WITH WINCHELL Some Suggestions Are Ale Offered to LENDING A HAND TO MR MIt l The routine of f even columns every week and an air continuity continuity continuity ity practically another pair of pillars leaves very little time for fora a columnist to loaf And so sq this one took the latest edition of H. H L. L s s The American Language for a over once-over-lightly However in that swift glance we failed to notice that he had catalogued all coinages under the particular trade racket or pastime that they sprang from Therefore Mr is welcome to these frail findings finding for his next volume Both Park a avenue v e n u e and Broadway have come to m me mean n a state of mind the first meaning those highly conscious of social socia prestige and Going Broadway meaning menning to get unbearable over success Another native word is ritz Hritz which was popularized by the theress press press ress agent for the then new and expensive Ritz Carlton hoteL It served as a less disagreeable word than mone moneyed ed or snooty Head in Union square where the wacky set c cut t up have parented a term especially especially espe espe- daily among politicians It is Union square squar rule meaning rough-house rough doctrines Also Tammany is an adjective either to cheer or frighten voters accordIng according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to where they ethey butter their Cookies It means organized organized organ political who get what they want Another phrase familiar to ev everyone everyone ev- ev who owes his or her origin to New York City is Up the river which of course means serving a rap at Sing Sing But the most recent nickname for the Ossining-on-the-Hudson where the arc confined is Westchester house party part In Hollywood For the most part the movie thovie colony clony gets its second-hand second from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York but several terms have been thought up and mouthed by the film folk Rushes is theirs They're the scenes inspected in a rush right after alter shooting to see how they are doing They also alo perfected preview meaning an advance showing of a anew anew anew new flicker and stills is strictly strictly strictly strict strict- ly movie The They are the photos of scenes which dont don't jump like the movie shots used for lobby displays ads and so on With the coming of Hollywood coin into the Broadway theater these terms are being used interchange Interchange- ably with dress rehearsal and flashlights respectively old show terms that correspond to them It If was in pictures that the word quickie found its way into the language A quickie is a film made on a puny payroll and short time Its It's now being replaced by bythe bythe bythe the more dignified class B pic plc- ture Contrary to humorists you dont don't hear colossal and super much in the studios the the enthusiasts lesser terrific favoring words as and outstanding which mean the same and keep them from bragging Two vaudevillians t talking their lingo Jingo could hardly be understood at Harvard For instance this rich item from Julius Marx First vaudevillian How they comin Big Boy Second Not so hot not so hot Im I'm a run hit-and-run emporium emporium em em- over in east New York First Getting much jack Second Well Yell the tho storm and me is cuttin up two and a half halt yards but when the feed bill and gas for or the boiler is marked off they aint much sugar left First Why dont don't you air her herand herand herand and do a single Second I guess I should everyone every everyone everyone one that's caught us says that the trick is a hundred per cent me I had em howling so forte last night the whole neighborhood was in an uproar What are you doing these days First I just closed with a turkey turkey tur tur- key that went out to play 40 weeks and folded up after 10 days Believe me them W J Z and W WE WE WE E A F wis crackers wise crackers aint doin show business any good In the west now they are even gettin the rodeo by radio Second Why dont don't you get yourself a partner and take a flyer First Well if It I could get a amama amama amama mama that could do some and tickle a uke I think I would Second Well ta ta I gotta go now and make comical for the bozos If you get a chance come over and get a load of ot me but remember Capt Kidd lay off my bellies |