Show Va Valter Iter Winchell ON BROADWAY BROADWAY- More 1 Hollywood Rackets Two w writers almost got away with a at a studios studio's expense One had a good yarn but feared ne lie wouldn't get what it was worth from a studio So he had another scribbler put the same title onto a hasty concoction and regIster register reg- reg Ister the result Consequently when No 1 sold his story to a studio and it was announced in the trade press writer No 2 came forth and protested the use of the title arguing that it belonged belonged be- be longed to him And if It were used he demanded demanded de- de some cash or he would sue etc But the studio learned in time that the tw two writers planned to share the title money and simply changed the title thus outsmarting the plotters Long Ears EarsA A trick worked around the smaller studios where the walls wails are about as thick as paper is performed constantly by cheap agents Bending Bending Bend Bend- ing an ear car toward a casting conference the agent hears that Reggie de Courtney is the man they want for a role Quickly a scuttles out to a phone and calls Re Reggie gie the actor telling him that lie he has a part all lined up for him and that the studio will phone him about it soon Thus the chiseler cuts in on 10 per cent of the hams ham's wage Save Sa Your Dimes But at least one star isn't afraid of rackets in fact hes he's turned Hollywood racketeer himself He is young handsome and popular with fans and is flooded with letters from everywhere requesting his photograph The letters contain dimes sent to cover the postage mailing ng etc Well our looking good young hero carefully takes all the dimes out of the letters and then uses the fan mail to start his log fire C C S The soviet Russian military and naval attaches are all generals and admirals respectively thereby outranking every other military and naval at the capital For the first time the president left his secy McIntyre on land when he boarded Astor's yot Wonder why S S e 0 The West Coasters are whispering that Francis Lederer is replacing Franchot Tone in La Crawfords Crawford's Crawfords Crawford's Craw Craw- fords ford's heart because she sent him gardenias wh when n his play premiered When we were there last summer the same dopes queried Why did Joan Crawford send gardenias to W V. Winchell They were sent to Mrs V. who was the ailing saps sapsi |