Show i r Walter Walfer Winchell's In New Y York i. i Woman Squelches Gay Emcee j With the Perfect Retort Tho Tito Squelch Proper A gay place emcee accidentally dropped l a a. glass glas of scotch into the lap of ofa ofa i ia a lady The clown kept making quips I about it none of ot them amusing to her And he wouldn't stop I hope youre you're not annoyed he persisted Go on with your act act she said Ive Iyo housebroken pups before before before be be- fore Aint It So A New Yorker was telling Noel Coward that the awful thing about the war was that too many southern soldiers In northern camps were marrying marrying marry marry- ing New York gals Awful said Noel I should improve New York women's manners Boomerang Sally Bland is a dancer appearing at a night spot near the place starring the famed Sally Rand A newspaper newspaper newspaper per erroneously spelled Miss Blands Bland's name Rand The fan tan dancer sizzled and threatened doing something about it The payoff is a howl Sally bland got so irked she wanted to sue the tho newspaper newspaper claiming claiming it hurt her reputation Observation The three cols columnists col col- who filled the same space on the commentator page of the New York W World World-Telly are gone Heywood Broun Hugh Johnson and Raymond Clapper And It Did Carl Brisson recalls recalls recalls re re- re- re calls when John Barrymore in his later years was cautioned by a pal You should take better better better bet bet- ter care of your reputation On the contrary said the star Ive always seen to It that it took care of ot me mel Of All Things Sherman Billingsley Bil- Bil the Stork club owner has mike fright Last year ample Prix he agreed to appear on Tavern but at thelast thelast the thelast last moment ran out scared stiff Ed Gardner went dizzy seeking a substitute and was very irked with Mr B B. Bt who said hed he'd rather pay plenty than appear appear appear ap ap- ap- ap pear on the radio The other day Paramount Pic Pic- Pictures Pictures Pictures tures which paid him just to use the two words Stork club for a film title reminded Billingsley that the I fee also meant that he agreed not to permit the use of the name Stork club on the radio nor nor must Billingsley make any radio talks for the next seven years Haw Haw The managing editor of ot ofa ofa a a. New York newspaper was in informed informed informed in- in formed that a columnists columnist's stint aunt t r I hadn't arrived arrived and and press tim timi was an hour away The editor phoned the at horn home and asked him to rush the catir car car- bon ben The clunk said he mad made none The editor instructed a t to dig up one of ot his old coly urns from a 8 year or so 80 back Read It and make sure BUre ha he added that no dead people art are In it It The paper ran the and nobody noted the difference As If Wo Va v Kno Perry Como observes that a 3 II lotto lotta politicians who get the Ule i 1 1 floor In congress are mentally ti fitted for tor only sweeping it itI I Dont Don't Believe It Bob Chris Chris- says the reason they 7 make a sailors sailor's pants so ao tight It i. IBO I so BO he cant can't bend over to shoot craps The Con Cong g. g who will go down away down In the history books for tor befit belli tung sounding foreign names ii Is reminded of the per cent American name of Rep Jeanette Rankin the Rankin the only member of congress who refused to vote voto for war against Japan the Japan the diy day d 1 J after Pearl Harbor Form of Criticism An editor I and his wife wite were swapping praise about Emil EmU LUdwig Ludwigs booklet How to Treat the the J Germans Willard Publishing when the phone rang The editor answered and exclaimed Why U that heel hee Two seconds later he ha ha barked The heel A moment elapsed and he exploded The Thelow Thelow Thelow low down heel hee Then he hung u up Please said his wife lido doo d not talk that way In the house I I was talking he said about Rankin Oh oh d the lady THAT THAT 1 heel |