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Show TYRO NEWS SCRIBE STUCK TO DETAILS , By WALTER WINCHELL Newspaper Man Stuff A group of reporters were gagging about a correspondent who connected with the N. Y. Times several years ago. His initial as-L as-L signment was a Lincoln day celebration far out on Long Island. He wired in his report, concluding with: "The high spot was Capt. Tomkinus' elocution. He rendered Lincoln's Gettvsbure address. ' which was as follows." And he' wired In the entire speech. Th editor, whowajatchingilj come in, became a little ill. but not too sick to aend hia cub this mes- sage: "On-Washihgton'i birthday donT aend us what he said at Valley J Forge we've GOT it!" In Frwrr Words Being the man of the hour in 1 Hollywood, says Mervyn LeRoy. has , only one drawback. You usually f lost that long, f Heheheh It happened the other night at the Trocadero in Movietown. An old gent, the president of a bank, c aavr Perirv Jnvm prm. In "Ah " states, but if you break It up and start uvcr again, yuu earr keep It up all day. . . . That if a girl is kissed in pictures if is considered good screen etiquette to let the lady draw away first. . . . That if you kissed anyone th normal way, no cameraman in the world could make an attractive picture of it. . . .And from the Puritan's viewpoint the ideal place for lovers to kiss is when both are on horseback. Form of Criticism It la supposed to have happened after the first week of a new so-so show. The stage manager went to the manager and asked for a raise. ': he ah'd, "there ia a woman I'd like i to meet But don't misunderstand 1 me. I merely admire her, she has no attraction for me and I'm sure I have none for her." "My dear fellow," heplied his friend, "Ml- Joyce is always interested in-terested in a. yon connected with a bank." " Imagine! The newapaper stories of the coed who waa discovered posing nude for students recalls th time a stage mother was reminiscing with an-, an-, other stags mater. She remembered remem-bered a chorine who took a bath before the audience in an Earl Carroll Car-roll show, until th publicity ruined it. "But that's not all." said the breathless one. "the little girl wasn't sven paid for it!" "Not paid?" bellowed th other. "Why, where was her mother?" In Case You Dldnt Know That it isn't any fun to kiss a girl in the cinemas because you have to keep thinking of the angle your noae la turned to the lens. . . . That a girl in films automatically automati-cally wets her lips before being kissed. . . . That th Hays office will not approve a picture of a man looking down at a girl, but If she 1 kisses down at him it is perfectly ; proper. ... If you start to kiss a girl in th movies you have to go through with it. There can't be any 1 of that hesitation stuff with th lips Just brushing. . . . Ten feet Is still the legal length of a kias in most j "A raise?" ejaculated the man I ager. "For what? You haven'i , much to do. Half the time you an , merely standing In the wings listening lis-tening to the play!" "I know," was the retort, "that'i just It." Cume Broadway-Rose, a pathetic chaf-acter, chaf-acter, who haunts the Main Artery, may usually be found outside Lindy's waiting for th radio and stage folk every night. Th boys rarely fail her with coin. The other night she was seated at a near-by aoda fountain and her lusty tones annoyed the manager, who had to summon a cop "I don't wish you any hard luck," ahe aaid as th officer escorted her outside, "but I hop you marry a dame Ilk me!" Naturally! Th Herald Tribune was the only newspaper in New York to offer Robert Taylor some sympathy when he returned. Other reporters, it appeared, had kidded Taylor (when he sailed for England) about his being pretty and having hair on his chest Th clowning didn't do Taylor Tay-lor good. And so It reported hia arrival inconspicuously in-conspicuously like this: "Another actor arriving on th liner was Robert Taylor." To which a Metro press agent asked the star: "What did you do to offend th man from th Trib?" Add Simile Bugs Beer's "A plain statement of facts liks a yell from a dentist's office." . . . De Witt Benjamin's "False aa the mannera of a gigolo." . , . Harry Beresford's "About as harmless as war in the dictionary." . . . An'on's "Busy as a dramatic critic hunting for synonyms for adultery." . . . G. J. Nathan's "About aa convincing aa a chorus man's suit for alienation of affections." |