Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-03-24 | Page 12 | Bus Boy Now Playwright

Bus Boy Now Playwright NEW YORK UP One IP-One One of the best bus boys the Fourteenth street automat automat automat au au- au- au ever had hung up his white coat for the last time early Monday Mon Moo day and maybe its it's just as well he was dropping dishes all Sunday night For Georgie Batson pardon Batson-pardon pardon George Donald Batson who Batson-who who began began be be- gan writing plays 10 years ago when he was 15 Is now a full- full fledged professional playwright His comedy Treat Her Gently starring Ruth Chatterton opens in Amarillo Texas Saturday and is due on Broadway next season Since November George has hustled hus hus- tIed dirty dishes for the sum of 1589 a week and all he could eat he took the job when a prospective producer for his three-act three comedy went bankrupt Tall thin with a shock of unruly unruly un un- un ruly blond hair George wrote the Your marionette show Time on Hands for the W P A exhibit at atthe atthe atthe the New York worlds world's fair but the comedy is his first major ere cre cre- cre George said he was looking forward forward forward for for- ward to meeting Miss Chatterton at Amarillo before the show goes on ona ona ona a week six tour and added that he lie hoped she going to mind this business about me being a bus boy And even if the critics dont don't treat Treat Her Gently gently George ha has another comedy up for consid consid- Ted Hammerstein has taken a week two-week option on Georges George's Dont Mind the Rain I 1 feel said George pretty good