Glacier County chief., 1940-10-04
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

Consolidated Features-WNU Service.)
NJ EW YORK.-In Uncle Remus,
~ Brer Fox said to Brer Tarripin,
You amt seen no trouble yit. I'm
de man wat can show yer trouble"
The Perfect FooP And that goes
Once Again IL and adds to
Pooling the Jinx hepuoie zest
it for his new revue, Boys and Girls
Together" at its Boston tryout. His
revue sounded extemporaneous, like
everything else he does, and seemed
to make people feel that even these
dire days will end when an old mas
ter, who though he was licked, can
thus improvise knockout.
Set upon by blizzard Of trou-
bles, financial and domestic, two
years ago, Brer Fox Wynn re-
to sit around in his pajamas and
bite his nails. Then something
touched of a giggle or two and
he began trying on funny hats,
and working up few gags. He
began to feel better, and along
came George Wood and Pat C.
Flick with bankroll.
That recent mess of trouble was
Mr.. Wynn's twenty-seventh upset, in
the light of which his comeback is
not so surprising. His radio chain
was as fragile as a Vassar daisy
chain and took $500, 900 of his money.
A delayed income tax time bomb
blew up similar amount. HarasSed
by lawsuits and whatnot he found
his wellspring of gags had dried up.
He shopped around for new and used
gags, but found none in stock. It
was his own inner resources which
finally reclaimed and reissued the
waggish Mr.. Wynn.
Funny hats have figured in his
karma from the first. His ia
Their, a milliner, came from
CzechO-Slovakia and his mother
from Turkey. In the millinery
shop, he handed himself many
a laugh, trying on hats. When
he was 16, his father said it was
time for him to take up the mill
linery trade, but he had other
ideas. He tied a shirt and
Sunday suit into a Dick Whit
tington bundle and made his
way to Norwich, Conn.
He talked his way into a rousta-
bout job with transforming COM
pany, presently got a small part,
and burlesqued it just enough to re-
veal his genius for comedy. Twelve
years of transforming and vaude-
vile followed. His recurring trou-
bles have been such that interview
ers or critics usually stress the
Pagliacci note when writing about
him, but it's rollicking, sympathetic
laughter which greets his happy
comeback.
w INSTON CHURCHILL stirs
w wide interest and approval
else language, official and unofficial,
More and More in the interest
People Taking Up fectiveness.
Word Gunnery His r own re- r :
dresses have been models of clarity
and force. He has risen nobly to
the demands of the hour. All the
more credit to him in view of his
previous lapses. This department
has dredged up an old speech of
Mr.. Churchill's in which he scolded
certain offenders for "terminologi-
cal inexactitude, and deplored the
public trend toward ornate Ian
| guage.
Perhaps under the pressures
and urgencies of the times pre-
cisiOnists are coming forward in
the entire field of communica-
tions as they are in machine
tooling. War casualties among
pedants and mystagogues may
be heavy. Over here, Charles
A. Collin takes a long overdue
swipe at the mystic word maze
of life insurance policies, as he
addresses the Insurance Adver-
Using conference in Atlantic
City. This writer has been
thrown for a loss every time he
tried to read an insurance policy
and has had to take them en-
tirely on faith.
Also in tune with the times i.
Judge Pecora's deep bordering ans
long-studied decision in that ques
ton mark or period case. Sixteel
entrants in a civil service examine
ton were sustained against thei
examiners when they picked tn,
question mark as the proper ending