The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-27

Two Broadway producers recently journeyed to the San Francisco Fair, where they put on a revue. It was something less than sensational |. <. {. As a matter of record the fiasco lost over $160,OOO, but the billing carried many mentions of the magic name, "Ziegfeld" And so a critic let go with both guns in this devastating manner: eff Ziegfeld," !" he wrote, "could have seen last nights debacle, he would have reached out from his grave and pulled the producers in with him!"
 If stranger tries to inveigle you into a bet on the horse-racing liquor sign at B'way and 48th, cautions Jimmy Dorsey, run, don't walk, to the nearest exit, because the Broad way mob has all the odds neatly figured out :. If you must bet, pick the white horse and stick to him, because he's an odds-on favor ite. When the white horse wins, the gin plug comes up. and it's Summertime.
 Not many editions ago Howard Vincent O'Brien took a slap at ra- dio in his Chicago column, when he wrote that he had listened to a lot of programs over the networks, but had yet to buy his first product as a result of any of the com mercials .. Whereupon, Ralph Hoagland, the well-known football official and golfer, sat down and wrote O'Brien: Dear Howard: Just read your column in last nights paper, and it reminds me of the many times you sat around the 18th hole at Olympia Fields, enjoying the good stories being passed around, and sociability, without ever buying a drinkl"
 Newspapermen last night were gabbing about picturesque reporting In the old days .. w. L. Lawrence, they said, then with the World and now with the Times, was assigned to cover the Beaux Arts Ball, which was costumed in the Renaissance Period *. Lawrence's lead was: "The immortal Beatrice Menken danced with Dante at the Beaux Arts Ball last night" . y. But the composing room and the proofread- CTS to a man omitted the "t" in the immortal Then there's the one penned in the Milwaukee Jour- nal on December T, 1884, by Richard S. Davis, after covering a Ger +r,,de stein lecture Gertrude Stein," he reported, "is stein is a hiccup and where is Emil? Emil go easy go easy Emil on foaming collars and dime is a dime IS money!" And one that has been repeated often, was Bugs Basr's on Ping Bodie, the star ball. pls yer, when the aging hero one day de iided to steal second base and wss thrown out by twenty feet :. Bacr's memorable line was: Ping had larceny in his heart, but his feet were honest'!p And last Saturday, the New York Mirrors Dsn Parker penned this pip: There arp plenty of smooth takers around wiio would steal your fingers while offering the handclasp of phony friendship.
 The execution of kidnapper Frank lin Pierce Mccall was handled ex- pertlv by Steve Trumbull of the Miami Herald in this way: "A young fellow who had failed dismally with life tried desperately here today to turn in a masterful performance with death. The actor was Frank lin Pierce Mccall, and the per formance fell short of its goal. For lifys last act with the kidnap-slap- CT of little 'Skeegie' Cash was an ;.udacious protestation of innocence, which his audience could not recon cile with fact"
 Allan Keller, an Indianapolis scribe, belongs on the list of nimble word -jugglers with this grand re- porting: "The birth of amateur ra- dio was attended by the midwifery of humor. There was about its early days something of the same mad essence that makes Joe Cooks internal machines work. Art was at the bedside; so, too, was tech- niuue; but certain drollness sat on the footboard, rocking back and forth with glee" Then there is Ken Crawford's lead from Washing ton to the Philadelphia Record: "The Supreme Court today ruled that Mayor Hague is not the law!"
 The numerous reports that Eddie Duchin was planning to embrace another religion are not accurate. The government isn't await ing word from Washington or even