The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
Walter Wilaclleu On BrOadzCay
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their hands would seem to be those Japanese business men who landed in New York on the very day the U. S. abrogated the 1911 Treaty with Japan .. George Jean Nathan warns that if you aren't careful about going into those air-cooled cafes you're going to wind up with chilblains An, what perils @ rakehell faces in the N. Y. night life .. Cold feet in Summer-the hot-foot in Winter.
 Father Divine plans to take over Newport mansion Wotz he try ing to do-give Society good namep. If Bridegroom Doug Corrigan was consistent he'd have gone to Reno for his honeymoon. .. Maybe it's @ coincidence, but a few days after the prices at the Fair were reduced 1t attracted 500 visitors from abroad-all Scotsmen Who said Crime Doesn't pay? Most writers struggle for years collecting rejection slips. Along comes Dixie Davis and gets $20,000 from Golfers This is real hu- nor, we think. To give Hitler some- thing Neville Chamberlain went to see him in person. But in trying to get help from Russia he sends a stooge Last week marked 25 years sincethe World War started .. And in those 25 years the world has learned that 1t has learned nothing.
 The newspapermen throughout the land have responded to our sum- mons for "Picturesque Reporting" If you encounter line or two or paragraph that arrests the eye please send 1t in .. Like Gar diner (N. Y. Post) Mulvaney's lead when Dixie Davis was released from prison after getting short bit Tn return for singing" to the law: "Dixie Davis began to run today. He'll be running as long as he lives." Then there was this pretyt wordage by a cub in the Yonkers Herald Statesman. He was covering su- burban Greenburgh (between Ard sley and Scarsdale) and not a single police call was registered in that community during the night Wrote the unnamed genius: Tran guilty ran rampant in Greenburgh tonight"
 When E. G. Robinson, the actor and art lover. came through Kan- sas City, he was greeted by Paui Gardner, head of the K. 0. Art Mu- scum John Cameron Swayze of the Kansas City Journal summed up theri visit this way: "The two of them talked shop, referring glibly to Monet, Van Gogh and the rest of the boys who pushed @ brush across canvas and left a mark on the world" L. Leibling, the Musical Courier exec, considers this a candidate: The late Tender son who was the N. Y. Suns mu- sic critic, wrote this about raucous German baritone: "He made one mistake in last nights performance of The Flying Dutchman.' The libretto has him jumping into the sea in the last act. He should nave jumped in the first"
 And then there's this delightful example of good reporting by Har- old Conrad of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle He is nimble sports chranicler and was 8 dear friend of Eddie Neil, the Associated Press star, who was fatally wounded cov- ering the Teruel front in Spain. !. Conrad wrote column about Eddie-as 8 sports ace, as news paperman, as 8 grand person .. He concluded the eulogy with these words: Eddie passed on yesterday, but if he had to go, 1t was as he woull have wanted Recovering a fight"
 Talk about picturesque reporting this unintentional chpckle ap-- peared in the dramatic notice of one of those summer stock theater attractions the other morning |. The scene was a town in Maine you couldn't locate on the map without a microscope The critic, one presumes, concluded his report in this manner: ". the rest of the ladies in the troupe fitted their parts to perfection" It came out in the paper: fitted their pants to perfection"
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