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Show WALTER WINCHELL Notes of a Bystander Dullest revelation in the papers: That the Z in Communist chief William Wil-liam Z. Foster's name stands for Zebulon. . . . Baylor university has a course in radio gag-writing. Wouldn't a good memory be more helpful? . . . Only half the wordage John Steinbeck brought back from Russia Is being published. Broadway Piffle: Rent parties have resumed in Harlem. They were Invented during the depression. de-pression. . . . Aren't draft board members getting letters discussing dis-cussing their availability for aervloe again? . . . Perfume bis Is at an all-time low, with man ufacturers weeping into their bottles. Characters in Search of a Colyumist: Almond-eyed Abie, a bland-faced little Chinese. Owns a Chatham Square laundry Chinatown). Gives a weekly party for the cast of the China Doll girlie show (all Orientalent), and his hilarious slantics keep the entertainers amused. . . . Hot Harry: He buys odd lots of silk remnants; has them made into ties. Sews on labels of famed stores and peddles them to you at a good fee via his whisper: "This is all hot stuff, swiped it me-self". . . , The press agent, who snaps himself out of depressed mood by reading a Chinese newspaper in the subway just to see people do "double-takes." |