Show h n rotes otC of oj a Newspaper paper Man lUan This they tell you happened at atthe atthe the Big 3 conference One evening evening evening eve eve- ning after d dinner Roosevelt Churchill Church Church- ill III and Stalin started speculating on what nationality they'd prefer to be if they couldn't be their own Churchill said If I couldn't be British Id I'd want to be American Roosevelt said If It I wasn't American Id I'd be British Stalin Id I'd be said If I wasn't Russian ashamed of myself 1 I During the recent run of the Theater Theater Theater Thea Thea- ter Guilds Guild's Embezzled Heaven i the star Ethel Barrymore was rushed to the hospital with monia She was placed in an oxygen oxygen oxygen oxy oxy- gen tent President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were among the many who sent posies and telegrams telegrams telegrams tele tele- grams and for a few weeks everyone everyone everyone every every- one despaired of her pulling through Finally the worst was over and the tile star was permitted to sit up in bed and answer the phone The first caller was the Guilds Guild's Theresa I Helburn Hello she cheerily said hows I your our cold I IThe The other night a Hungarian playwright playwright playwright play play- wright was told an actor had arrived from Hungary Do you know him he was asked Know him was the retort Hes my best friend I hate him Our recent paragraphs about misplaced commas brought the theone theone theone one about the London Dail Daily Mail which has a reputation for making making making mak mak- ing fewest errors All sorts of editorial supervision was em- em bonuses bonuses were offered the I staff to maintain the highest standards etc But the Mail 1 was still less than perfect Finally the editor summoned the staff and announced Hereafter Hereafter Here nere after the first copy will be printed print print- ed on special stock and sent to the King of England Editorial blunders dropped 90 per cent I A Texan in London was trying to I impress some with the size of his home state Do you know he said that in Texas you youcan youcan can hop on a railroad car at 8 in inthe inthe inthe the morning and still be in Texas 1 after riding 24 hours We Ve replied a have trains like that in England too It happened at the premiere of One Man Show The curtain was up and a woman was making a big to-do to as she got into her scat huffing and puffing Seated near her was George Luddy the Indian- Indian born n author He polished her off ofT neatly by audibly remarking Dont R worry about her She's so used to the second balcony that balcony that sitting in inthe inthe inthe the orchestra tonight has given her herthe herthe I the shakes The exciting stories from Manila Ia I nila included the one about an arl American radio reporter who was freed after three years ears as asa asa asa a Jap prisoner lie He was forced off the air one day as the Japs entered the city The other morning said the papers he resumed resumed resumed re re- re- re broadcasting this way U As As I was saying when I was so rudely interrupted interrupted- De Valera of Eire was arrested arrest arrest- ed while speaking at a street meeting several years ago When he was freed years later his bis first statement was U As As I Iwas Iwas Iwas was saying when I was so rudely rudely rudely rude rude- ly interrupted interrupted- Margalo Gillmore the actress was anxious to become a nurses nurse's aide but found she didn't have enough stamina for the work work being being frightened by the sight of blood etc I So she compromised by becoming a aGrey aGrey Grey Lady one who reads to the I convalescent servicemen etc Margalo was telling Carolyn Burke about her duties Just what is isI isa isa I a Grey Lady asked Carolyn A uA Grey Lady in my case said Margalo is a yellow nurses nurse's aide There was the time the late Alex was the victim of a typesetters typesetter's typesetters typesetter's typesetters typesetter's type type- setters setter's error The critic once referred to a famous recitalist as asa asa asua a ua popular It came out Popular disease When critic Rascoe covered the new play Hope for the Best he was no little flattered that the principal principal principal prin prin- cipal com comedy dy line used intermittently intermittent intermittent- ly throughout the three acts was something he wrote rote many years ago It was Something no wife can ever understand no matter if she lives with the man for 25 years is that thata a writer is working when he is staring staring staring star star- ing out of the window A group of newspapermen were gabbing about the current college stories the stories the basketball scandal and the race discrimination report on I dental colleges One of the scribes I Isaid said No UNo matter what kind of a I college yarn I write I never have j I to worry about my punch asked a how chronic-how- I 1 cumer I UI just lust write said the first newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper man Nicholas Murray Butler Butler But But- ler lr President of Columbia University University J sity could not be reached for com com- ment t I |