Show l yr v Tales o of f the Town In Sardis Sardi's a wise guy was commenting commenting com com- upon the way in which a n news weekly picture of some notables notables notables nota nota- bles looked dwarfed compared to Mrs Roosevelt in their midst nothing said Merry Mac McMichael to the thc way she dwarfs some people who arent aren't even in the picture When Queen Wilhelmina was Inthe in inthe inthe the United States during the war she made a tour of inspection at nt West Point The boys had I been drilled for days and every detail detail de- de de tail fail of protocol was carefully studIed studied stud- stud led except one No one informed the band which number to play for tor Her Majesty's entrance and the leader chose one of his favorite I numbers without thinking of or the ocI oc oc- I casion So as the signal was wasI I given for lor the Queens Queen's entrance with every soldier standing rigidly rigid rigid- i ly at attention the band broke into The Old Gray Mare Marc She Aint What She Used to Be I A group of or editors were discussing discuss discuss- discussing ing the pros and cons of the OP OPA AThe A. A The NAM is right said one After all all they've got business ex ex- experience experience that money cant can't buy also got lobbies snapped a c cynic that money money can The Intelligentsia Intelligentsia- The career of ot otI Booth is a lesson to I struck page-struck neophytes In the first five years of his writing apprenticeship apprentice apprentice- ship the two-time two Pulitzer Award winner earned the vast sum of 22 2250 50 Dorothy Thompson will also colm corm for a weekly Louis Fisher who A Week with Gandhi is flying to India to visit him Theres There's a sizzling feud on between novelist James T. T Farrell Farrell Far Far- arrell ar- ar rell and book critic Sterling North Dr Harold Urey atom bomb scientist one of the important ones will we have an atom bomb war in less than 5 years if the powers dont don't agree soon Well bye goom-bye-bye all nize about you The OPA situation summed up Its It's a question of whether the prices will be held field down down or or the people held up The Funnies Alex and Heywood Broun walked out on anew a anew anew new flop one night As he left his row A pew Alex bent over overto overto to pick up a flower that had fallen from froma a a bouquet on the stage Dont you know it is bad luck chided Broun to take flowers from a grave Percy Hammond Hammond Hammond Ham Ham- mond once critiqued of at a big show failure It is the first time in theatre theatre theatre the the- atre history that an audience ever suffered from stage fright Author Somerset Maugham points out All is grist for far a writers writer's mill I dont don't create from the whole cloth either of reality or of fancy I have in my literary kit Items Hems in the newspapers stray encounters in the street stories I hear no matter where Eventually out they grind either as a story or ora ora a play The way a columnist grinds it every every ev ev- ery cry day not day not ev every ry year The Story Tellers Gene Fowler told Irving Berlin You are one of the very few immortals ls who is still mortal Quotation Marksmanship O. O Henry Her dress fitted her with fidelity and discretion Beth Brown UD Up In the r nl gild women were filling their buckets with footprints Phil Baker A Agal Agal Agal gal looking for a guy who could make her dreams dough-dreams come true Anon He sat at his typewriter tenderly diapering his brain child with neatly folded phrases Mark Twain Man was made at the end of the weeks week's work when God was tired Anon When a girl winks it means one of two things She has something in her eye or she has somebody in it Ben Hecht He ate like a man with a stowaway under his vest Olive Schreiner We talk so much of intellect in intellect in- in and knowledge but what are they After all all the heart cant can't live on them One would barter all ones one's knowledge for one kiss and all ones one's intellect for one tender touch touch just just one The Times' Times Berlin newsboy Ray Rny Daniell reported that the Germans live in hope that there will be a war n America and Russia They believe that such sucha a a war will give them an opportunity to revive Nazi- Nazi ism in short w when the Allies knock ck each other its only opportunity opportunity knocking for Nazis Win Will Rogers went to a dinner but didn't know it was a political affair af af- fair The sP speakers akers In were unanimous peddling bigotry and hatred of the foreign born As Rogers Racers hm himself rose to S leave i in n disgust he heard announced as the next speaker who would give his views on Rogers the crying turned ne needs ds of the nation tio and drawled Aft After listening to those who I preceded me what have come to the conclusion n that thIs country needs is ls fresh blood wood and what I l need is fresh a air r With that he left |