Show Walter ter Win Wih Winchell cliel chell ON BROADWAY BROADWAY- Redemption in Little Boy Blue I cant can't recall where I recently read it Probably ably in Gene Fowlers Fowler's exciting book hook Timber Line Jine And I may my not quote it exactly but this is what impressed mi ml much Eugene Field the grand columnist of Denver who wrote pithy paragraphs and made audible wisecracks from his fourth row on the aisle seat to actors he disliked and who was a gay gu guy according to his historians was wa was abused by the press of that day They c called him a drunken sot among other names and there were comm commentators who wh panned his stuff Before he died however Field wrote Little Boy Blue and other delightful things that still live live and and he is now included among amon the men to remember respectfully But Eugene Field struggled lon long and wound up poor never even feeling the gold that poured from the sector in which he slaved and lived Colorado I hear too that Eugene Field was even dispossessed or or his mortgage e fell due and he couldn't pay it so they put him out But The Unsinkable Mrs Brown see Fowlers Fowler's swell book Timber Line who started as asa a barmaid and wound up with most of the gold mines there and there and who was wa also snubbed socially socially bought bought the home in which Field lived and died died and and turned it into a shrine for children Where I presume presume the descendants of Mr Fields Field's severest critics now bring their children to pay homage to a man whose nursery rhymes and poems help make them better humans General Bernie A story I saw in only one gazette and not in any other here struck me in the right rib Congressman Cannon a Democrat of Wisconsin it appears is going to stop all those phoney titles of colonel and general for celebrities He hopes his bill a against the thing goes oes through He revealed that Gene Tunney had to win the worlds world's championship championship cham cham- to rate a phoney military title title and and the congressman thought it was pretty queer that Gene had to be a champ to get it considering how long he hc spent in the marine corps Rep Cannon also argued about other with titles given iven them by publicity seekers who liked having their photos taken with movie stars ct et al alBut But what really got under my skin added the statesman was a rumor that even Ben Bernie was to become a gen gen- Haw |