The Washington times., 1936-01-20

ing myself clear! PROBABLY not!
But you get the idea.
I've taken a Song-and-dance
man, which l am and always
will be, and I have given him
a retired business mans out
look, which is a good trick II
can do it. The part (my
partl is a successful chap who
thinks 1t high time he saw a
bit Of life away from office
hours. Europe strikes his fancy,
and women, for the first time
in a busy career, arouse him.
He Is a bachelor all the way.
But he is now bent on going
in all directions. More wine,
please!
He has a comfortable place
in which to live, a handy check
book, and an amusing slant on
this muSicaI-cOmedy world Of
ours. He is, in short, a hOOfer
out Of the Rotary Club. He
knows the right answers, he
sums up people beautifully, and
he manages to keep a straight
face while his whole inSideS
are effervescing with laughter.
On second thought, maybe 1
am giving myself too much Of
build-up; maybe my bachelor Is
the way think 1 am. At any
rate. 1 wrote him as I think 1
ought to be. He certainly isn't
Nat Miller from "Ah. Wilder
ness" IA newspaper Owner) and
he is not the Stranger in "The
Tavern; nor is he the straight
frOm-the-shOulder gent in "Pig-
cons and People" He is, as 1
have tried so hard to tell. a tap
dancer out of the business
world; and somebody I've never
portrayed or even attempted to
portray before. Mind you,
there is none Of the sOng-and-
dance man in his outer make
up, but he has the heart and
soul of the sOng-and- dance man.
He has music in his heart and
a jig in his feet. He is trying
to do the best he can.
CHAPLIN CENSORED
Charlie Chaplin. despite his
genius for pantomine, has in,
stuck vulgar bits into
most of his full-length features.
His latest release, dern
was not submitted in
script form to the Will Hays Of.
flee and Censor Joe Breen &C.
scanned the completed
picture. 1t failed to pass.
Comedian Chaplin was ordered
10 delete certain coarse incidents
and Modern Times" has gone
back to the studio for these cuts
it is said, are minor and
will not involve retakes. They
merely serve to delay the release.
BEBE DANIELS BOOKED
Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon are
booked for the Earle Theater and
4 personal appearance the week
of February IA. Major Bowes
prefers Amateurs as the descrip-
tive title for his vaudeville units
rather than Public GongsterS
which a Chicago press agent
Jagged on to his beginners. . The
third Bowes unit to play Washing
ton opens at the Earle Theater
Friday.
HIGH PAID COLUMNISTS
Columnists, by the way, rate
high in the list of those of the
Estate whose income is in
he top brackets. For instance
Editor and Publisher browsing
through Uncle Sans records finds
Walter Winchell, $4,000; Damon
Sunyon. $35, 400; Jack Lait. $52,-
100; Haywood Broun, $31,366;
Vestbrook Pegler, $4,000: F. P.
\, $20.873; Mark Sullivan, $22,-
112; Walter Lippman, $47,931;
Mark Hellinger, $29,263; w. w.
1orum,, $22,063; Paul Calico,
PATH; Bill Cunningham of the
Boston Post, $20,800; w. w.
Brown, $15,654.
Of course there's Arthur Bris-
oane's $265, 900 if aspiring young
journalists want a high mark to
shoot at.
THANKS TO EVERYBODY
May use a paragraph here to
hank for those wires, letters, per-
Sonal messages and phone calls
which helped in a quick recovery.
Not to mention the flowers, the
fruit and the radio invitations to
get we'll quickly. 1t is indeed a
comfort to know that you're
to know further that one
has such loyal friends.
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