The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-07

(T0day's guest columnist TOT
 Waiter Winchell Is Milt Gross,
 famous comic artist and writer)
 
 BY MILF GROSS
 King for day =? Ixnayl l wlnchell for a morning2 It's a deall 1 Hello II Olsen and John- son? want eight--no, better make 1t ten tickets for "Hellzapoppln' " Hunh? Gross-G-R-O-S-Sl No! Not a hundred and forty-four ticketsll This is Milt Gross--I do all Winchells studdl want twelve tickets for Friday night in the first rowll Okay, kid--this is Mrs. Gross big boy Milt, who ruined many a guest and is now starting in on the guest columns.
 well. Walter, ol' hoss, the first thing that struck me when heard I was to do your bucket of type, was a pushmobile, so I just sat on a convenient stoop and went to work knocking off two tunes in collabor- ation with Nick Kenny and paying Lady, did 1t" in between time. The next thing that struck me was the vast number of readers your column reached daily so If it's okay with you, I'd just like to insert a little burb: "Lawn-mower for sale. Or will swap for rock garden in good condition. Write M. Gross, care Of this paper"
 Here's my favorite story about Ad Carter. who draws "Just Kids. Ad Knocks out his stuff so fast, he's 'way ahead of schedule-but when he's through for the day he means 1t. He rushed into King Features, his syndicate, with his latest batch O drawings one July, exchanged in- suits with the editor who usually handled his hieroglyphics and pre- pared to take off to where guys Ike him take off to when they've fin- ished drawing stuff like he does. The editor gave quick look at the strips and began to raise ruckus about one of the cartoon fig urea wearing a straw hat. Hes wearing a straw hat and these strips are scheduled to appear in December" the boss beefed. Carter had visions of having to stay after school to correct the mistake, but he was master of the situation. He timed his answer so he could just catch A down elevator and hollered over his collar-bone. "Yeh, know He's an eccentric character"
 Right here is where WOW 'em with my Hitler gag. It was a very quite day in Berlln--in the whole world in fact. No pogroms were re- corded-no submarines were report ed lost by Democratic nations-in fact the entire earth was momen- tarily serene. Hitler left his office and went home. He arrived, peevish and on edge, and Goering let him in. "What kind of day did you have today?" asked Hermann, "Lousy". gnashed Adolph. "This was just one of those days when every- thing seemed to go right.
 How right at this point you dear readers can have your cherce pe- twsen me telling you how to start a fire by using guest column and only one box of matches, or an in- teresting discourse on cartoons and their creators, those mirthful wags, thuse pickled Pagliaccis, those big, strong, loud men with a jest on their lips and eraser crumbs on their pants, who are sometimes called "artists". Tad was, and still is. the goa oi cartoondom-and he made the grace in spite of bad health, paralysis, and ar, accident to his right hand which forced him to learn to draw lefty. was his office boy in 1912. Tad died in 1927. He IS stili top-
 The first animated caroon was "Gertie the Dinosaur" by Windsor Mckay. Thousands of detailed drawings went into the making or It, and Windsor did them all him-
 George Herrimann. whose "Krazy Kat" to my mind is the all-time gem of comic strip creations, proved himself one cartoonist in two mil- lion. when he refused raise years L ago He just didn't think he was worth 1t. | Ernie Bushmiller (Fritzi RitO was hired by Harold Lloyd to go to Hollywood to write gags for Lloyd picture. The arrangement was tnat Bushmiller would be granted ample time off every day to continue worK on his syndicated cartoon. Lloyd De- came so interested in the comic strips that he'd hurry through his movie work every day in order to work as gagman on Ernie's car- toons. 4.
 Comic Art departments seem to affect all visitors with the same funny germs. It's as if the visi- tors "a genus of the evacuation watching family all studied their parts from the same book before ! entering.
 The trade name for these peonie is meek warmers" The neck warmers routine consists of two questions and declaratiye sen- tence. When Mrs. Roosevelt signed to do her daily column, she was shown through the whole plant. When she came o where the funny men were drawing theirslittle pictures-she fingered. After the boys had been introduced. the first lady requested that they go on with their work as she would like to see how 1t was done. They did Eleanor watched one fellow for a while and then popped question number one: How far in advance do you work?" They told her. She watched a second paper-spoiled for a while and, sure enough, asked question number two of the Neck warmers catchism: Where DO you get your ideas?" They tried to laugh that one off, att he same time kick Ing their Joe Miller joke books out