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Show WALTER OFFERS TIP-OFF ON FICKLE LADY Walter Wlnchell i long and got M in from banes he i tu put to ted for (hra mar day . . . When hi wife utlTrf ud ' found blm Indkapoeed oho got bored, f walling for him to got bettc ... , And to she goo out and Babss whoopee with a different guy ovary H night r f Jo fiseoa, tha snetlme headllner who need to make $9000 oomo weeks, and Pat Rooney, trd, ara pels . . . Ono day raoantiy aa tha ooaat koth war oallad to tka Federal laeona Tu offloa about tu arrears . . . Frieoo wont la first . . . "TM ewe tha government 140.000 la tasee." ha waa told . . . "I'm vary sorry, Joe said, "cent nay It. Havan't got Tha Private Fa pan of a Cah Koportor poaklng of Naala, ag who UnIT Adolf and Goerin wore riding In a car ono day, and Hitler wag tilling Goorlng'i aora with gtata aoeratg. . .Ai thoy pa mod. tor a traffic light anothar car draw along-lda...In along-lda...In It wara two man, who happanad to yawn... "Arrest thoaa two monP Inatruetad Goarlna to hla auard. There hava boon saves. dropping.' The ether day Sidney Blackmer, the actor, wee offered a test tor ths role of Frank Kennedy la "Oone With the Wind . . . Kenedy's ths sympethetle guy Scarlett wede la Atlanta . . . Sidney told Fay Bain-tar Bain-tar about his chance at the role ... "Don't be silly." shs said, "doat waste your time you'll never, never get It!" "But." said Blackmer. "why not My people carat from there. I know the place and character! backward. I'm a southerner!" . . . That's just it," waa the retort, "you will never aa long aa you live get la that picture you're a southerner south-erner t" Joe Lewie, the comedian, bow tarring at the Continental, went to aa opposition spot the other night to "play a benefit" . . . While waiting to go on he got Into a dice I .11 , . i m , i ' - ; - I III f-V MlM uuae- ... no wae iota as would hear from them agala la ths future . . , "Could you pleaae tell me how much my friend Pet Rooney, the trd, ewesr said Frisco . . . "Hs owes 111," said the tax maa . . . "He's a good kid," said Frisco, "put his ea my tab." The Top Hat had a' chorus call the other day. One of the girls, a newcomer, asked what a time-atep wea ... "A tlms-atsp," explained a vet, "la what you leara before a twe-time-etep." la sew bast Broadcast ths fallowing fallow-ing suggestion waa made . . . The mall reaponse haa been great from people of all creeds . . . -Ladtee and Qeatlemea: la view of the persistant per-sistant efforts toward peace by the bus Pope Plus XI your reporter hopes that a movement will be start-sd start-sd recommending the Nobel Priss for peace be awarded to his msm-ory msm-ory . . . The $40,000 prise money that goes with that honor could bs used la purchase a monument symbolising sym-bolising peaoe for all mea and creeds, which rl0 stand for all poe-tority poe-tority . . . And for which Hla Holl-neee Holl-neee erorked ee hard to achieve, de-spits de-spits hla failing health." Lew Brewa haa Just opened an office la the Shubert Building . . . It Is an old building and the office has no locks oa It . . . Brown waa auditionlna a couole of hlll-hiliv Fay Bainter . . . Say friend, Actor Ac-tor Sidney Bleckmor, wiH never 9at role in G. W. T. W. game and loot $8001 Lewis preraeee hla -funnleet ditty by announcing: "I did this aa ths Valise hour a few months ago. If you heard me your radio wasn't on the bum. The bum waa oa the radio I" The eoluma'e readers probably know "Wtngy" by this time . . . Wlngy'a the led who ran $4 up to $11,000 ahootlng crape In Miami, and gave a considerable amount to hla frlenda In need several of whom stood by to watch hla luck . . . The other night Wlngy loot back the last fsw hundrsd dollars trying to woo the eubee again . . . Aa he tried to make a "nine" he aeven'd and lost and then turned for soms consolation but there waan't a friend In need In eight . . "For goeeakes!" he ejaculated, ' "where'i everybody? Whers's my public?" . . . Wlngy couldn't locate any of tha pals he had helped only a few eves before to borrow a dollar for cab fare home! ' The gamblers shook their heads. It was an old and familiar story . . "Hs'U nsvsr grow up," someone remarked re-marked of Wlngy, "he had 11 Ge the other night and wouldn't quit. He wanted to run It up to 116.000" . . , That recalled the reaeoo Jack Donahue, Don-ahue, the song-end-dance star, dlsd too soon from overwork . . . Jack had aaved I "00.000 . . . But he wanted a million! singers girls when a msa walksd In, and sat down. Brown thought hs waa with the girls, but thsy left and he still sat. Thrss or four other people came In, were auditioned and left, but the maa still sat Finally, Brown naked him what he wanted . . . A job," he said . "Why didn't you tsll ms hours ago?" shouted Brown. "What's the Idea of listening to all thoee people singing and aot saying say-ing anything?" . . . -Well." wai ths reply, "I Ilka singing." It hsppeasd hi Miami Beevck lasi wsek ... A New Yorker decided to visit tha grsat Winter resort and have his wife follow a few dayi later . . . "Oh. boy," ha oh, boy'd "will I have a time I TU have threa days fresdora to atake a lot oi whoopee with some beautiful woman" wo-man" . . , This la whst happened ... On the plane coming dowa hi got so 111 hs hsd to stay la bed th first day ha arrived . . . On thi second dsy hs stayed la the aua to) The gamblers have a series of similar stories . , There's the lad who was clean broke recently, who didn't hava enough coin for a gallon of gas for his ranted Isotta-Fra-schini car . . . All be had was a dime . . . Hs wsnt up to a hotel cigar clerk and bought a package of nickel gum . . . With the nickel change he bought a chance on a punchboard and won a ten- pot . . . With the tenner ha went ta the race track and won five races . . . That night ha played tha dice and roulette games and ran It up to $18,800 . . . With a nickel! And thsa hs fsll In love . . .-He arranged ar-ranged m altera with a dealer to eee that his girl "won $50" every Bight . . . Thla went on for a long spell ... At the end of the season shs ' had aaved ilsOO and ha owed fla.000! "Yew kaep staying dice," said a veteran (who once was wealthy) In a gambling spot last night "and you wind up slsspiag la tha park! Besides, svsry tlms a gambler wine four hundred the word spreads ail over town that ha won four thou-sand thou-sand and tha touchea come In bunchee. You go brake taking ears of psoplo who nssd monsy!" |