The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-13
BY VICTOR MOORE

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 BY VICTOR MOORE
 A Ruest column for Winchell? Sure I'll do 1t; that's . ciI1ch [ guess. After all, didn't Walter get his start in the show business just like me? It certainly seems Ike na easy way to make 2 living. |. All you need Is Q pencil and plenty
 Hold your hats, boys, here we go Fiashl Flashl (that's W. W) When the King and Queen were here I picked out . good spot on T2nd street to watch them pass, and lust as the encourage Chats what goes with the K. and O. came along, my attention was attracted to . girl in . window across the street. And watched her 50 in- tently that didn't even see their Majesties and I have been try ing to remember ever since what that girl had on.
 I live in the same house that Walter lives in and I have passed him in the hall twice in 40 weeks Both times he was just going out when I was coming in. That gives him a better chance to know who's who and why. Not that I'm complaining, because once in Q while Billy and Madeline 0axton take me out after the show. Most of the time 20 straight home and to bed, being pretty tired from try ing to be an Ambassador to Rus- sia in "Leave It To Me" (Matinees wed. and sat.) (All right, Mister Copy Editor, I'll behave.) When I do stay out late, I meet some in- teresting people, such as Tallulah Bankhead and Ethel Norman, whom I saw at the Stork Club. I don't know why I looked so intently at that girl and had to miss the King and his wife. What was 1t she had on2
 "L. I. T. M" (There I go again) is the third show that Billy and I have played in New York right through the summer. "Of Thee I Sing" and Anything Goes" both ran over a year, but in "air-fooled" theaters. We have cooling system now, and what a boon 1t is to hot actors. It's relief on both sides of the footlights, only we have no footlights She didn't have 8 hat on.
 Here in my apartment, overlook ing the lake in Central Park, can see the trees and grass and imagine I am in the country somewhere. It starts one thinking how grand na- ture is .. What was it that girl had on?
 of to the east, we can see ton a clear day) Whalen's toothpick and gclf ball. And right underneath, they are tearing ten-room apart ment apart to- make smaller suites. And they start pounding away at 8 o'clock in the ayem. Now l know why MT. w. has gone away and why these people who lived here b,fore me were 50 willing to sublet this ten-acres suite for the summer, but I am getting used to the ham, mering and miss 1t when the gang knocks off for lunch I am sure she didn't have Q coat on.
 I wish folks would stop asking me how long have been in the show business. I don't feel nearly as old as that. It seems to be the price A performer must pay for having ulayed good parts: Stinky Goodhue, and, before him, Moonface Martin, Throttlebottom and back to Kid Burns; that's the tripper. "Why, I saw him play Kid Burns during the Big Blizzard" That was in '88, and first met the Kid in 1906, when George Conan wrote the part for me after seeing me in my vaude- vile skit, Change Your Act". So- phie Tucker, who plays my wife in our present show (how am I doing, Mister Copy Editor) was a Ziegfeld starlet in 1909, yet she Is as young in wind and speed as chorus lilly.
 Our whole troupe is like one fam- fly. That's what Billy and I have always tried for in our shows. The good feeling in the company gets over to the audience and they have been mighty nice to us. I think they get Q kick out of the ad lib- ping we sometimes indulge in and 1t does go a long way to keep the cast of Q r,in-show on its toes. I can't think for the life of me what hat girl had on.
 A lot of nice people have come backstage to visit Billie and Sophie, and c few come to see me. We've been at home to Ex-President Her.