The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-23

other column Jessel argues the inventor was Wilton Lackaye Overheard: "Howz Ben Bernie doing at the Astor Roof?" "He was booked until October 1st, but he's doing so well, they're holding him over until Sept. End" There are about one million people who work all night in New York city To take care of the other six mill lion |. . Lyon Boston, ex-ass't to Dist Atty Dodge, was offered Magis- trate Overton Harris job on the bench, but $1OC,00O per annum isn't enough for the capable counsellor Angelo De Vito, librarian at the Dist Attorneys office, has been promised it The Japs are getting the rep of being the politest race on earth. They never wait more'n g. week to apologize for skipping an American woman.
 It was refreshing having a gab with George M. Conan the other 3 in the morning Broadway" we told MT. Conan, fused to be synonymous with you-and you with it. But can't associate it with you anymore. You used to typify it, but now it hasn't your distinction or class" To which he explained: "The Broadway we used to know was great because everybody knew each other!" Runyon'S lead the other morning on the Thanksgiving Day controversy was our idea of good colyuming .. A concrete ex- ample of second-rate writing was in the same edition a few pages away on the same subject. The Grand Jury has turned its lamps on cafe society Our better bar flies will be flattered. It's a long time since anybody paid them seri- ous attention.
 "BacheIor Mother" in case you aren't radio tuner-inner, was one of R. K. O.'s biggest hits. It's No. l flick Now go on with the oddity: Norman Krasna, who wrote it, didn't have his option renewed. Buddy De Sylca, who produced it, hasn't been asked to do another film as per contract. Pandro Ber- man, its executive producer, who directed it so brilliantly, was sus- pended because he refused to do B" film-meaning bad picture .. Could R. K. O.'s president be al- lergic to black ink? |. Who said congressmen haven't a sensayuma? yxyl, ox, AIe bo v,oo ,e pa,, Dafrick wa C asked the difference between statesman and a politician, he an- swered: "The politician delivers what statesman promised!"
 The Daily News (N. Yo has a style-rule Certain words, once said one of it's editorials, were spelled in simplified forn-such as mite for night, foto for photo and so on So what happened? So this happened The other edition the News 1nquiring Photographer column was spelled that way, but the title of the ad- jacent editorial was: Photography Celebrates Its Tooth Birthday" =. Looked damned phun-ny Capt. Phatterson.
 Gus Edwards was given @ testi- monial dinner on the Coast just as his first cinema, "The Starmaker," Was readied for release Eddie Cantor was toastmaster Eddie read this telegram from one of the lads who started with Gus: Under stand you plan reviving School Days act. So.ry can't be with you. Too bad Cantor can't make it. Also sorry Jessel can't, either. Why not SeS Milton Berle, and then you've got all of us" !
 A letter to one of the "Vox Pop" columns was signed James Wheeler Hill The editor of a Ratzi paper in town has the same name Tennyrate, the letter yapped that there is too much "anti-Ger- man" stuff in the papers Well in the first place, there isn't any anti German material in the papers, only anti-Nazi And the pa pers are anti-Nazi for the identical reason that they are anti-oplum smoking and anti-crime.
 Add Picturesque Reporting: Jim Doyle's punchy sports writing III the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Kentucky Derby story few years ago. to wit: Louisville is a one horse town again today, and the name of the horse is War Admiral!'
 Doyle perhaps is the only sports writer who ever killed the chances of candidate for the vice presidency of the United States At the last Republican Con- vention held in Cleveland, he wrote: If Bridges is nominated the Demo- crats will be cinch to go to town to the tune of 'Landon Bridges Fall
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