| Show JOW OW IT STARTED aby I 1 I 1 by JEAN NEWTON addition division and silence ERB la is a phrase which somehow b w H HERB or other keeps cropping up ever every y now and then particularly la in reference as might be correctly imagined to public officers leers off and quasi public officials or others who take advantage of their position to plunder their benefactors or mulct those responsible for placing them in vantage points of authority thorl tho rity ty it Is to the corrupt practices of unscrupulous politicians that the expression addition division and silence owes its inspiration W 11 kemble at one ona time treasurer of pennsylvania Is credited with the authorship of the words which were emboden em boded in a letter published in the new york sun march 15 1872 ever since their first app appearance earan ca they have found constant use since n no other phrase could so eloquently flu 0 the bill Q 1933 bell Syn syndicate dicato service sen ice gentlemen in my ay next nest show I 1 am supposed to play a gangster id like to do it right make it a real part I 1 want you who have been around a lot me how shall I 1 make up and what shall I 1 aearl wear seriously and critically the via visitors regarded him they looked him film over with the care a purchaser might bestow on a considered automobile at last they reached a decision and the apparent leader spoke for or them all dont he be said earnestly change a thing athing there have been a lot of statistics published on the manhattan telephone directory they will tell you how much paper to Is required to print it how bow many subscribers are listed in it and how bow much distance would be covered if the subscribers or the book boob I 1 forget which were laid end to end but they have left out some very important figures in this manhattan directory tor for example there Is or are be exact and as the case may be I 1 rod hod 6 5 yard I 1 foots 8 foot 25 foote no feet but 2 inch furthermore ther more there Is or tire are I 1 arm 9 legg 14 finger and 34 hand not apparently including charlie hand who la is now living at the biltmore many hands bands make light work which may be why the democratic campaign went so well although charlie was the only hand assigned to both mr air garner and mr smith there are a round dozen head in the directory a braille and a liver owen davis writes plays about as fast as clarence buddington kelland writes short stories record speed george jessel and a friend once met mr davis on a morning walk and the friend asked jessel jesse if he be knew whether the playwright play right was engaged in any work when I 1 saw him said jessel he be had bad stooped over to tle tie a shoo shoe lace it just happened that he saw a pencil that somebody had dropped on OD the sidewalk and before he be straightened up he had written two new plays ft 0 11 1983 B bell 11 syndicate service |
