The Washington times., 1937-01-28

Snoot into Family Attairs-and
blabS!
Tuesday - Jellybrain is semi
comatoSe from the flu but it
doesn't do the rest of us much
good the way he means and groanS
and keeps the whole house in an
uproar giving him Cd sympathy;
90 pills and medicine. I have
never seen anybody who wants
sympathy like he does and looks
like his heart is going to break
into tiny pieces if you don't look
at him sad-like and shake your
head.
He is not taking to Doc Michel
because the Doc came and
looked him over and beloved,
you're not sick. You're just
lazy!" When the Docs gone, he
calls the Queen over and crOaks:
"If 1 die, 1 want you should take
my Broadway file and distribute
it among the other cOlumnists.
And give the scrap book Of my
columns to the public library"
This strikes the Queen very
funny and she giggles, and she
saws: "Just sit up q minute,
darling, while I fill your whine
glass" and it takes him q few
seconds before he knows what
she means. Then he grOans and
pulls the covers over his head.
wednesday They have the
radio on and are listening to the
Presidents speech. The lady
doesn't think the speech has the
punch like the one four years ago
but Dying Duck says conditions
are different now and not so dra-
matte which is why you can't cX-
pect the Presidents speech to oe
dramatic!
Some of his friends are up to
see MIN and one Of them tells
him a story about a big floating
craps game in one Of the hotels
here some time ago. Some gun
men broke into the room and
held up all the gamblers and
scraped up all the money. When
they are going out they see one
guy, his hat pulled over his face.
in a chair in the corner. He
looks very pathetic-like to them
so one of the hOld-up men sticks
a V-spOt into the pocket of his
Jacket and says: "ThiS guy looks
like he's been cleaned Out-wen
give him a break" Well, it seems
they've been sorry for Nick the
Greek who has been playing
steady for 18 hours and has
dropped out of the game for
awhile to take q SnOOZe. And in
his pockets is more than $4,000
at the time which he has won in
the game!
Some one else tells him, too
that every night lately a red-facec
fellow at the Hotel New Yorker
has been dropping into the Ter
race Room and while Abe Lyman'i
band is playing, grabs a baton anC
insists upon leading the band. Anc
who should it be but big, good
natured Ed Reilly who was Haupt
mann's lawyer-and who like 10
of other men, likes to lead a band
Thursday-He's still in bed AM
now he's very sorry for himself ant
when someone is looking, he trie
to put on what he thinks is tn
brave smile of a guy who is sui
fering. All he talks about now j
how he cannot get out and ge
news for his column but the wa
the phone rings all day long an,
letters come in from all the boys
it seems to me he ought to stay il
bed all the time because he ce1
tainly gets better stuff when he
home and others supply him wit
the information than when h
goes out and pretends to wor
around in the night clubs.
Well, he's just got wind Of
something funny that happened
at the luncheon of the Critics
Circle which is made up of all
the dramatic critics. Right in
the midst of their dessert, a pack
age is delivered and they open
it up because they know it must
be wine from some happy pro-
ducer and out pops a live snake.
George Jean Nathan or John
Mason Brown, no one remem'
bered just who says: at must be
someone thinks we're fit to asSO
ciate with this snake and ]
move that we elect him to OuI
select circle" but some Of the
other boys are little indignant
and suddenly there Is something
of an argument between Critic
Whitney Bolton and Critic 10
seph Wood Krutch-and it.!
funny because the argument Ii
who is to have that snake to TAKE
home because it seems both BOl
ton and Krutch are very fond Oi