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Show W. W. Picks Out Smiles In This Vale of Tears speechsa . , One who's been a critic so long as Mr. Nugent should know that drowning most dialogue Is Just being human. ReUywMd gimpevbses that Orson Welles' flicker will be either "a colossal box-office smash or a de lux failure" . . . It means it cost too much to ever b called a common flop .. . The Three Stooges are planning to appear in a picture burlesklng Hitler, Goer-Ing Goer-Ing and Goebbels . -. Tha title of It: "Apes of Wrath" ... We think we have discovered why so many people go to night clubs v . . They are the only soos open In the middle of the night . . . Overheard: Over-heard: A bore is a guy who tells everything he knows. -T :...( Honywoed Novelette! Al McNeil, one of the top film editors In Hollywood, Hol-lywood, recently took a year's vacation va-cation after 30 years of hard labor ... During that time McNeil helped dosens of lads reach their present big position ... A few weeks s McNeil returned to Hollywood Hol-lywood from Fir Island, where he was Gen Fowler's guest . . . Strictly as a gag maybe K was Fowler's Influence McNeil decided decid-ed to find out how many real friends he had In the movie town ... He wrote letters to all thoa he helped Get There, telling them he was broke (which he Is far from) and asking them to help him aut with a loan of I2S0 . . . From all of them he received on 5 check . . . Tha few others wha bothered to answer said they wer sorry, but they Just couldn't afford It right now, etc. . . . Perhaps It will make them feel better to read this and learn that McNeil doesn't really need their money ... Or their friendship. ' CoDvrlehL 1938. Dally Mirror Walter Winchell The Prlvat Papers f a Cub Reporter PtcturesqM Reporting l The line that every news caper maa waits for cam to Norrls W. Vagg, city editor of the Rochester Democrat-Chronicle Democrat-Chronicle . . . When a gorilla named Aswas took cold and died, Vagg wrote this caption for the story: "Arwas As Was Was Worth $30,000; Azwas As Is Is Worth S3." Th Natiea offers this one . . . A German mother taught her child to end her prayers each night by adding: Thank God for Adolf Hitler" Hit-ler" . . . After faithfully following follow-ing mother's instructions, th child turned to the bewildered parent and asked: "How will I end my prayers if Hitler dlesT" "Oh," replied th mother, "just say Thank God.'" Peggy McEvay, who Is th Reader's Digest Hollywood historian, his-torian, relays this on . . . Leo Carrillo has a Mexican gardener on his ranch who recently told Leo that he had adopted a beautiful baby , . The star askedhlm to bring the baby around . . . Pedro was honored. He brought the baby the next day ... to Leo's astonishment, he saw that the child was unmistakably of Jewish origin ... "Why, Pedro." exclaimed Carrillo, Car-rillo, "that's a little Jewish baby, and you're Mexican! Didn't you mean to adopt a Mexican babyT" . . . "On, no!" replied Pedro emphatically, em-phatically, "Jewish children take car of their parents when they get old!" Attorney Oeaeml F. Murphy was relaxing In a huge chair In -the foyer of his hotel when a stranger approached and said: "I've waited for years to shake your hand because be-cause I don't lik you" . . . Mr. Murphy replied: "Permit m to shake hands with you for the same reason" ... Mr. Hauser. the Hollywood diet specialist (mentioned (men-tioned as being Greta Garbo's fiance) fi-ance) is the same gent who prescribed pre-scribed garlic Juice for th Duk and Duchess of Windsor . . . Perhaps Per-haps that is why a lot of us think Greta is being considerate when she "vents to be alone" . . . F. D. R. is having a laugh at the 3rd term stories ... It certainly is news when the leader of a nation has something to laugh about these days . . . Orchids to the newsreel which shows a firm In France manufacturing man-ufacturing medals for war heroes and the following shot which shows a pawnshop window display In the U. S. A. . . . It Is filled with hocked medals from th last war, The Raxy charm girls, reports the World-Telegram, are hired for beauty, shape and talent They work from 7 ayem till half past midnight, with no time to marry millionaires . . . But there's a silver lining . . . They get 35 a week just like finding it . . . Cinema critic Frank Nugent wants the dialogue spaced out in comedy films so the audience's laoghter at a gag won't drown out the ensuing |