Show WHO'S NEWS THIS i WEEK By LEMUEL F PARTON Feature Features Service NEW YORK In YORK In Uncle Remus Brer Fox said to Brer You aint seen no trouble yit Im I'm de man wat can show yer trouble I The Perfect Fool And that goes I for tor Ed Wynn Once Again Again sand and adds to F Fooling 00 I. I mg the h e J Jin Jinx rn the In public whooping l lIt zest I It for tor his new revue Boys and Girls I Together at Its Boston tryout Ills His II revue sounded extemporaneous like everything else he does and seemed I to make makA people feel teel that even these dire days will end when an old master master mas mas- I ter who though he was licked can thus improvise a knockout I Set upon by a blizzard billiard of troubles trou iron bles financial and domestic two years ago Brer Fox Wynn retired retired re re- tired t to te his Park avenue cave to sit alt around In his pajamas and bite bile his nails Then something touched off a giggle or two and ami I he began trying on funny lunny hats bats and working up a few gags gacs He lie i began belan to feel teel better and along i came George Wood and rat Pat c C. C Flick with a bankroll That recent mess of trouble was I Mr Wynns Wynn's twenty seventh upset Inthe In hi hithe inthe the light of which his comeback is not so surprising His radio chain was as fragile as a Vassar daisy chain and took of his money A delayed income tax time bomb blew up a similar amount Harassed by lawsuits and whatnot he found his wellspring of gags had dried up He shopped around for lor new and used gags but found none In stock It was his own inner resources resources' which I finally reclaimed and reissued the waggish Mr Wynn Funny hats have figured In his karma from the first Ills His father father fa fa- fa ther a milliner came from Irom Czecho Czecho Slovakia and his mother from Turkey In la the millinery shop he handed banded himself many manya a laugh trying on hats bats When he was 16 his father said It Il was time for him to take lake up the millinery mil mU livery trade but he be had bad other ideas He De tied a shirt and a Sunday suit snit Into Into a Dick Whittington Whit Whit- bundle and made his way to Norwich Conn He talked his way into a roustabout roustabout bout Job with a barnstorming gom- gom com company pany presently got a small part and burlesqued it just enough to reveal reveal reveal re re- re- re veal his genius for comedy Twelve years of barnstorming and vaudeville vaudeville vaude ville followed His recurring troubles troubles trou trou- bles have been such that interviewers interview Interview- ers or critics usually stress the note when writing about him but its it's rollicking sympathetic laughter which greets his happy comeback WINSTON CHURCHILL stirs wide interest and approval with his demand for simple and pre pre- precise precise cise language official and unofficial More and More In the interest of national ef People Taking Up f e ec c tl ti v veness en ess i f. f His own reWord re- re I W Word or d G Gunnery nad c cent en tad ad dresses have been models of clarity and force He has risen nobly to the demands of the hour All the themore themore themore more credit to him in view of his previous lapses This department has dredged up an old speech of Mr 1 Churchill's In which he scolded certain offenders for terminological cal inexactitude and deplored the public trend toward ornate language lan Ian guage Perhaps under the pressures and urgencies of 01 the times precisionists pro pre are arc coming forward Inthe Inthe in inthe the entire field of communications Ions as they are in machine tooling War casualties among pedants and m ues og may maybe maybe maybe be heavy Over O here Charles CharlesA A A. A Collin takes a long lone overdue swipe at the mystic word maze of life IIII Insurance policies as he headdresses headdresses headdresses addresses the Insurance Adver tiling conference tn In n Atlantic City This writer has been thrown for a loss every time he be tried to read an insurance policy and has had to take them entirely en on faith Also In tune with the times Is Judge Pecora's deep pondering and studied long decision in that question ques lion tion mark or period case Sixteen entrants in a civil service examination examination examina tion were sustained against their examiners when they picked the question mark as the proper ending for lor a certain sentence Just getting under way before belore the I war started there was in England a society for tor general word renovation renova lion tion and ad fumigation and the furtherance further lurther ance ante of good diction In these endeavors en en- deavors Mr 1 Churchill now gets a I putout but something mure more than an assist go 10 to the mischievous and ironic A A. P Herbert the par gag man who ho was far lar ahead of Mr Churchill in blasting at over elegant word ward setups Hull hail Irish the author of 01 about 2 20 23 novel els and a k halt half dozen plays plan h he ha 11 linked Q kt-Q much revered J. but lu QUI i sage usage |