Show ALONG BROADWAY WITH S C Career of Recalled reer Variety With Notes About Founder By WALTER WINCHELL The Private Papers of a Cub Reporter Last weeks week's Literary Digest took up the career of Variety celebrating celebrating celebrating cele cele- brating its anniversary and paid tribute to its late founder Sime Silverman who left us only a few years ago ago It said among other things Walter Winchell when starting his career as a columnist column column- 1st often went to Silverman for advice n We wish the Literary Digest editor had asked us about that So that we might have said Yes and we always got it too oo And considerably more Money for tor instance when it t was needed quickly Comforting Com Com- forting when the going was rough and nd for dozens of mon months months his hs his front page leading story story to to make our column colum appear in the know The story which he across his front page many a Wednesday appeared here the day wedneSday previous previous- with his good wishes The friendship which lasted thirteen thirteen thir thin teen years years years-a a Broadway miracle miracle- started when we served The miracle miracle-I Vaudeville Vaudeville Vaude Vaude- ville yule News hardly a rival theatrical paper for it was the Keith Circuits Circuit's I house organ But Variety and I that papers paper's sponsor the late E. E F. F Albee clashed bitterly Despite the ill feeling between them them them-Sime Sime Silverman was hospitable to Glenn Condon Condo the editor of The Vaudeville Vaudeville Vaude Vaude- ville yule News and this columnist When we shifted jobs the jobs the Variety boss gave us a key to his private offices to use them as s we liked There may have been a few others who enjoyed that privilege But we never heard about them The following issue in his Literati page Sime ran a two titled we think That Winchell Thing something like it anyway The TheL filler explained that Variety heard L Winchell was slandering it but Winchell denies it so the thing re remains remains re- re mains a stand off He sent uia us ui usa a letter telling us not to take life seriously and to forget the incident People are getting to know you he said youre now news And Variety's business is printing the news That's your That's your business too When you feel like it print what you like about us It has been said that Leslie Howard Howard Howard How How- ard decided to witness Gielgud's version of Hamlet and courteously courteous courteous- ly sent Gielgud a a note asking him if he minded Gielgud answered and hoped Howard wouldn't come as it would make him terribly nervous and might upset him Howard didn't go One report however insists he be did did in in disguise disguise dis dis- disguise dis- dis guise Times change Not many years ago the favorite sightseeing sightseeing sightseeing sight sight- seeing for tourists was in this order 1 1 The A Aquarium qu a i I U 01 2 The Bridge 3 The Statue of f Liberty c 4 The Ghetto Today according to the tourist guides the tourist prefers 1 Radio City 2 The Washington Bridge 3 The Empire State 4 Cathedral of St. St John the Divine If you dont don't think front page figures are forgotten quickly whatever became of that guy In Europe who challenged nine men to a duel for insulting his wife |