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Show Mm m The Village News-Press (Prop, and Editor, Walt Winchell) Right smart remark by Ed Cantor on his radio hour. Said to Carol Landis that she must excuse Joe DiMaggio for never hearin' about her as he never seen any movie shows. "Then what is he doin' on the N Y. Yankees'?" Carol said back. "He should be with the Washington Wash-ington Senators!" Ezra Stone, accordin' to reliable report direct from his camp, had to drill in double time last week j 'cause his gun was dirty. j - Yesti&dy in 1938 Olsen & Johnson's John-son's op'ry came to town. Three years old goin' on 4 million dollars. dol-lars. Oley and Chick sent ye ed a telegram, sayin': "Thanks for what you wrote about it to make it an all-time all-time annuity for two lucky and appreciative Scandinavians." How about a coupla passes, fellers? Ye ed sure wishes his detractors would hold a rehearsal of some-thin'. some-thin'. In a magazine piece it was claimed we ain't never had no scoops on the Hauptmann case. But in a new book (The Bunk of the Month) ; ye ed is criticized for spill-in' spill-in' secrets about the case! The secrets se-crets (scoops!) came from New York policemen workin' on it. How come those famous speakers and lawmakers get $600 and more from the America Firsters to make those "patriotic" speeches? New York Heartbeat The Big Parade: Arthur Treacher, Treach-er, who once swallowed a monocle, ankling along Vth Avenue a few inches behind Grace Moore, who once swallowed a swallow . . . The Jack Bennys and Ida Lupino sitting at the left rear table in The Stork club to give that corner some class . . . Gladys George and her groom decorating Cora & Irene's . . . Lois January at the Belasco Jessel rehearsals re-hearsals telling puns. The Lois form of wit . . . ,Elsa Maxwell squeezing into a cab outside the Hurricane Hur-ricane . . . Broadway Rose now called Broadway Cactus . . . Wendell Wen-dell Willkie, who proves that the only way you can put your country before everything else is by getting behind the President Memos of a Midnighter: Garbo and a dance director here are causing caus-ing merger talk . . . S. I. Haya-kawa's Haya-kawa's "Language in Action" (a Book of the Month choice soon) has been condemned as unfit and un-American un-American by the Americanism Comm. of the Legion. It will combat com-bat "the cleverly concealed Axis propaganda" . . . Jim Tully's new book will be published by Scrib-ner's, Scrib-ner's, which claims it is his best yet . . . Local Italians are supporting sup-porting "H Mundo," the new anti-Axis anti-Axis paper . . . The winner of the Mrs. America beauty contest (entered (en-tered as non-professional) is a Powers Pow-ers model. Things I Just Found Out About Newspaper Features The California legislature in 1899 passed a law prohibiting publication of cartoons in newspapers . . . Only one important daily newspaper doesn't run comic strips the New York Times . . . The most universally univer-sally popular story, "Robinson Crusoe," Cru-soe," and the most influential American Amer-ican novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," (it is credited with fomenting the Civil war) appeared first as newspaper news-paper serials. The first serial in an American newspaper was Defoe's "A Religious Reli-gious Courtship," in a Pennsylvania Pennsylva-nia gazette. It wasn't completed because the agonistic Ben Franklin took over the paper and threw it out . . . Franklin published the first newspaper cartoon in this country coun-try .. . Paul Revere was a newspaper news-paper cartoonist So were John Barrymore and Gary Cooper. Early U. S. newspapers took care of "syndication" themselves. They clipped freely from each other, and anything good that appeared, for example, ex-ample, in Thomas Fleet's excellent Boston Post was sure to be repub-Ushed repub-Ushed throughout the Colonies. Fleet, by the way, put stories told to his son by his mother-in-law Mrs Elizabeth Goose, into a book and made her the immortal Mother Goose. But Fleet's paper printed no story of the Battles of Lexington and Concord in its next issue because, be-cause, "The unhappy transactions of ast week are so variously related hat we shall not at present undertake under-take to give any particular account thereof ! The first popular serial writers Jan6 K,rati A'ger Jr' a"d Mary Jane Holmes, developed by the N m1"" b6lieVe " or not' t"e HOC'" f Lena RiVCrs'" Mi" Hohr.es. last year topped sales of Hem mgway s "For Whom the Bell Tols and Roberts' "Oliver Wis- e" ... The longest novel in history Adele Garrison's (real name, Mrs. Martin White) story of "Pi,rTP ,'Sr marricd life' cli I Ualls of Love." It has appeared n newspapers every week-day since 1915 -more than 5,750,000 words. |
