| Show k I r r Walter Winchell WincheD First of a B Barrymore was one of J John oba actors who had a mind th the thet tt few alert as those of his sest se- se Bet J jU st t est st as t critics Some of his ad- ad rs enjoy recalling the time owed actress sitting d do down o w n f annoyed him throughout nt J. J Her audible h 5 arks performance arks 4 to her companion dis dis- tea the audiences audience's complete when she wasn't dem- dem attention some point by wavIng way way- 0 her tier arms Barrymore waited wait- wait Idi Ing 54 until the play ended to punIsh pun- pun ft Ish ed her In a brief curtain talk mentioned that a famed ac- ac he e had honored him by attending at- at Si Please tending hg the play flease te he cooed and take T d u up ta fC haw bow Which she did Tp Then a n he b bowed bed ed to her and it I 1 want to th thank you for coStarring co co- cod Starring tarring with me this evening I If was adminIstered admin- admin eA similar milar squelch f AA J. 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N Y Times at a Roadway BrOadway premiere A firsty f first first- y kept up a running barge barrage bar- bar rage ge of chatter directly behind v blur j. j When his patience ce ran out Atkinson Atkinson turned around a and n d Tho Those e actors are mak mak- makIng making D 15 ing so much poise I cant can't hear a afOrd word fOrd you youre you're re saying fin in in Tallulah Bankhead's un un fl room the other performance per per- amance her press agent Dick jitney alleY came in waving a copy of bt a newspaper Anything about me asked hiss Bankhead Its Its a piece by the fellow who you the other day laid Maney Blaney I must say its it's superb superb superb su su- reporting Oh k-Oh nOb said Talu in other fords its it's libelous This one ose has been pinned on manY madly plump persons but when Alexander was tipping tipping tipping tip tip- ping the scales in the he liked Hied telling it on himself Two actors who had suffered from saw him hint bathing in the Atlantic City I vat rf Lets ets et's go swimming i cald ld d one How can we we asked t the h e eother t th the h other ether er using e ocean ocean JNo No o column of stage y yarns a r n s mild be complete without one about b George Bernard Shaw H He always maintained that sex raa was a hopeless basis for permanent permanent perma- perma nent relations The i ide ideal d e a l I llope IloVe loVe lore he be once said is conducted conduct- conduct id ed by mail Shaw added that i is his s passionate correspondence i with Actress Ellen Terry was a I wholly dolly satisfactory love affair Jj 1 I 1 could have had her he headd hemd laid add at any time but I did not wish to complicate such a delightful de de- intercourse She tired of five husbands but never of me I Percy Hammond the drama critic altic never fell In love w with wit i t h my actor When he was adf adrid ad- ad f ri-d ri I. I that a one of his pet hates Y ud lad been signed for Hollywood Mite despite ite Hammonds Hammond's many roast- roast Percy commented He Tie d do well Hes He's had a lot of ence acting without audi audi- ecu fe Music linale critics are usually pret- pret It ty tame but there has been times when they showed sharp claws Not long ago one of them attended a concert which bored him A celebrated soloIst solo solo- 1st was running up the division and subdivisions of of notes on his fiddle fiddle but but the critic yawn yawned d dand and yawned A companion tried to get him to show more Interest t by reminding him the solo being played was very dif dif- I wish he groaned it were impossible Conrad the radio and concert baritone was among the notables notables' invited to the presidents president's presidents president's pres pres- ident's birthday party at t the h e White House recently At the depot earlier waiting for a trolley trolley trolley ley he turned to a red cap and asked Arent you excited with all these celebrated movie a and n d stage people people coming to Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington Mister said the blase porter with all the movie stars senators senators senators senators' sen sen- and and foreign ambassadors who come here this is still a thrill one-thrill town And until he gets back from Casablanca th the thrill is gone Bennett Cerf Irving Hoffman Hoffman Hoffman Hoff Hoff- man and others who still miss Heywood Broun were discuss discussing discussing ing him again last night One recalled when Broun was doing great baseball pieces for the Tribune and when he was transferred transferred transferred trans trans- to covering shows The A 4 ij r day of the switch Broun served as official scorer at a Giant-Cub Giant game and that night he reViewed reviewed reviewed re- re viewed Ethel Barrymore's premiere premiere pre pre- In an Edna Ferber play called Our Mrs McChesney At the ball game that afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon Broun scored a close play playas as an error for the Cubs' Cubs Shortstop shortstop shortstop short Short- stop thereby depriving the GIant Giant Giant Gi GI- Gi- Gi ant batter of a base hit In the records That night he roasted Barrymore's acting Next day the Trib managing editor received received received re re- re- re two Indignant telegrams One from the Giant batter which read the idea of sending a lousy dramatic critic up here to be an official scorer The e Other signed by the great actress concluded How dare you assign a cheap baseball reporter reporter reporter re re- re- re porter to cover a Barrymore premiere premiere premiere pre pre- During the filming of of Casablanca Casablanca Casablanca Casa blanca the players had great fun un with a parrot which h had a d nothing to say In the picture It was employed as atmosphere in ina ina ina a sequence Ingrid Bergman and the other actors asked Polly wanna cracker Polly merely gr greeted eted them all with a stare One d day y It winked at Humphrey Humphrey Humphrey Hum Hum- Bogart as though it wanted wanted want want- ed ad t to have hav a talk B Bogart o 0 g ga a r rt t obliged r t f Polly w wan wanna a n n a a cracker he asked Polly was the reply want Bergman Copyright 1943 Daily Mirror |
