Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-08-21 | Page 18 | Walter Winchell

I t e 1 1 Stage and Screen Zanies n Pi Pinch Hit for o Walter By ABBOTT and COSTELLO Famous Comedians of or Stage and Screen ABBOTT Hello Mr and Mrs America This is Bud Abbott and Lou Costello hitting Costello pinch hitting for forWalter forWalter Walter Waiter Winchell COSTELLO All right Abbott if were we're going to write a column for tor or Winchell lets let's get started You tell me what to say and Ill I'll t typewrite It ABBOTT I never wrote a column col cot COSTELLO That's O. O K I never ran a typewriter ABBOTT What would be an Interesting in interesting interesting In- In subject How about politics politics pol pot I COSTELLO Politics would be good I know all about politics My uncle was a big politician in Texas ABBOTT What did he run for COSTELLO The border ABBOTT Talk sense We should write write I about what's going on in m Wasl Washington Ill I'll try to explain it to you In Washington we have havethe havethe havethe the Capitol Building it it houses the supreme court which consists of nine elderly men COSTELLO So does the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Giants baseball team ABBOTT Keep quiet The Capitol Capitol Capitol Cap Cap- itol Building also contains the senate senate senate sen sen- ate and the house of representatives tives Ives Now the senators meet in inthe inthe the he senate and the congressmen sit in n the house COSTELLO They sit In the house No wonder it takes them so 0 long to get things done Why dont don't they come out once in a awhile awhile while ABBOTT They They- cant can't leave the house louse because a congressman just took the floor COSTELLO Then why dont don't they go out through the cellar ABBOTT Costello the congressman congressman con con- gressman is holding the floor COSTELLO Hes He's holding the floor with floor with the other congressmen sitting on it What is he Hercules Hercules Hercules Her Her- cules ABBOTT Costello have you been typing all this while we were talking COSTELLO Sure ABBOTT Then we will use this for our column COSTELLO 0 O. K but Ill I'll have to type it all over again ABBOTT Why COSTELLO I forgot to put a ribbon in m the typewriter