Show WINCHELL UPSETS MANY U. U S. S MYTHS By WALTER WINCHELL Popular Fallacies That Mata l Hart Hari was a raving beauty When she first came to Paris she couldn't get work as a model because artists considered her unattractive That it doesn't matter when you you wind a watch It'll last longer if you wind it in the morning That the formula for becoming a success is to win friends and influence people LaGuardia Teddy Roosevelt George Jean Nathan and every other biggie reached the top by making enemies all along the route That London Is the foggiest city in the world Seguin Maine is foggy quarter one-quarter of every year That Columbus' Columbus trip to AmerIca America Amer Amer- ica was for the purpose of finding a shorter trade route to India Columbus Columbus Columbus Co Co- Co- Co lumbus was devoutly religious and believed God had chosen him to bring the Gospel to India That ups grown-ups dont don't believe In Santa Claus Glaus The Texas Tens Court of Criminal Appeals i Is on record as believing In him That Shakespeare s said id The plays play's the thing Yo You read too fast fast he he said The plays play's the thing u wherein herein Ill I'll catch the conscience conscience con con- scie science ce of the king That novelists like to beef beet about the way Hollywood butchers their stories Lloyd Doug Douglas as after seeing Warners' Warners treatment of White Banners says Its It's an Im Im- Im- Im provement over his book That men are more sadistic than women A recent survey showed femmes went for horror pictures more than men did That the lobster Is La a fish It b belongs be be- longs to the spider family That flicker stars lose their box box- office appeal if the public knows they're married The public knows Bette Davis Paul Muni Clark Gable Jim Cagney Myrna Loy Sp Spencer Tra Tracy y etc are re married rie and they're the office box leaders T That hat trees h have a v e no sex They're plenty sexy there sexy there are both male and female trees That coal is is black If It you'll examine examine examine ex ex- ex- ex amine It through a microscope you'll find its it's eith either r red yellow or brown That only short men like Napoleon Napoleon Napoleon Na Na- ever really amount to anything any any- thing Most of the guys in Who's Who are over five feet ten That red-heads red are volatile and hot- hot tempered The most tempered even-tempered gals in H Hollywood are Olivia D Dei De DeHavilland Havilland and Ann Sheridan Sheridan and and the e easiest siest iest to get alo long along g with That only onty dogs spread rabies Cats foxes and wolves can infect you with it too That columnists columnists columnists col col- col- col wear larger hats than ordinary ino 0 r t tal a 1 s. s Heywood Broun wears the same size h hat hatas hatas t tas as F. F D. D R. R and a smaller one than Victor Herbert wore That humans cant can't really be pay pay- chic Hawthorne was always scribbling 64 4 feeling the number had a fatal significance for him him him- I he died in 1864 I I That the image of a a murderer is recorded in the retina of the victims victim's victims victim's victims victim's vic vic- vic vic- tims tim's eye Scotland Yard conduct conduct- ed exhaustive tests and says its it's a myth That Dad can be a boys boy's best pal Dr Burris Burns Jenkins pastor pastor pas pm- tor of the Kansas Community church says Its It's bunk Dad bunk Dad is too old to be a buddy That castor oil is merely a laxative The Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese use it as a food That Thai Hun is an epithet The term was coined by Kaiser ex-Kaiser Wilhelm who called his soldiers that That Its It's bad table manners manner to raise food to the mouth with the fork In the left hand Emily Post says Its It's perfectly O. O K That the dictionary is safe from censorship censorship censorship censor censor- ship boards Websters Webster's dictionary was once banned by the state of Arkansas That the movie studios are in Hollywood Only three of them are That men have larger mouths than women Actually women's mouths are larger In proportion to their height That cowboys ride on horses Argentina cowboys use airplanes airplanes airplanes air air- planes That the South Sea islands is the correct name for them Their right name Is the Pacific islands That babies babies babies ba ba- ba- ba bies who have a tough time tune learning learning learning learn learn- ing to talk will grow up to be dopes Professor Einstein was the despair of his parents it took him so long to learn how to gab That the Bible is In public domain To print a Bible in England you must first get permission from the copyright owner owner King King George That a cold is always contagious Only during the first three days That actors are useless members mem mem- hrs bers of nf If It It weren't for the h actors i in iSh Sh Shakespeare's ke pe company company com com- o pany more than a dozen of his better plays would never have come comedown comedown comedown down to us That comic strips are published for kids 75 per percent percent percent cent of the newspaper readers in inthis inthis inthis this country follow th the comics regu- regu regu |