Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-05-09

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with EN-. but they don't wait to see.
But It's as | was saying before. Some
other minor thought interrupted me.
o. o. Mcintyre. irwin Cobb. Bugs Baer.
and of course MIR. Brisbane. they can
Just keep growing In popular favor. for
they can write about anything. and they
can make 1t m~arvelously readable. Bugs
makes 1t funny. and when | say funny
est and most unique and original slant
on humor than any man In the world.
You know darn 1t that fellow is a
marvel.
And Cobb of course has lived and
outlived wrote and outwrote all the
men OF his time. Humor. but humor
combined with a great sense OF human
understanding. No Nut" humor In
Cobb. Its based on years OF reporting.
And by the way the best reporter the
old New York World ever had. And its
based on years OF mingling. studying.
and getting next to all classes OF people.
| would rather have him on a movie
story with me than any man ! eve saw.
He knows what to keep you from doing.
Its kinder like a good wife. that don't
Eyes" you all the time. They just tell
you where you are not so hot.
Homer Croy who wrote They Had
To Cn1 Dar{c' to onnfhar that Lv,n,po
just what a character should do. and
Owen Davis. the great playwright.
(who has had more successes over a
course Of years than all of emil he
knows character. There is lots OF our
stories where we do thing to get a
laugh. but its not the thing that the real
man who we are playing would do. Well
that's all not done by one man. Its done
by two or three men working with a
director who can tell when a laugh Is
out OF tune. Cobb. Croy. and Davis can
do 1t.
Now this fellow Oh Oh Mcintyre Is a
character. that same as one we play on
the stage. but he is fortunate In know.
ing what to do himself. Nobody has
to walk around and tell him. His read
ers picture him. they visualize him
meeting these various celebrities. They
see him walking among the out OF the
way places in New York. They know
that they are getting an authentic pic.
ture Of New York In all its phases.
land Is read more than all the other
N. Y. writer's put togaether). He can
sit down at his desk and write a col
umn about his typewriter ribbon not
working, but darn 1t. that's whats hap
pening. We don't know one tenth OF
these people that drop In. or that he
meets on the street. or at various par
ties. They are Esquimos to us. but by
golly before we are finished we think
we know EN- too. He likes to use big
words. but he Is sure to have enough
little mes In there. so US dumb ones
don't lose out entirely. And he Is liable
to run you to the dictinary. the never
did me for | haven't got any. | imagine
you had guessed that by now).
That brings us to my older friend. Mr.
Brisbane. the daddy OF all OF EN-. A man
| expect with more talents than any
man In the newspaper game. A great
Judge OF what millions OF people want
to read. II a newspaper Is begged down
In quick sand. or II 1t has the heeves.
Mr. Hearst sends old Doc Brisbane
there. He operates. The patient not
only RECEIVERS. but thrives. No other
writer In America can do that. They
car write. but when they have finished
writing then they are through. They
may know how to write their editorial,
or column. but they don't know what
should be In the so or 100 columns.
But to go back to the subject Of my
original Grafton. Mr. brisbane knows an
awful lot about a lot Of things. | dideni