The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-20
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 One Of her intimateS was re- aaIiuR a spellb0und group with stuff ahouf TalluIah Bankhead Il seems that TaIluIah's questions are never Obvious-she doesn't ask them to be funny-it is just the cuckoo way her mind functions ,. . Frinstance: She was told about fellow who had finger bitten ott by a vicious dog She didn't respond with How horriblel" but "Did the dog eat it?" .. Once in Hollywood a dress she needed for a scene was returned from the clean CTS. There was a big to-do but fin- ally the dress came and the woman messenger explained: "Oh, the poor man was so upset, Miss Bankhead, he had to take a pill to quiet hin!' 2 Talu didn't reply: "Oh, the poor ttingl" but What kinda piIl?' Then there was the time a newcomer to the stage Ca girD get too close to the curtain on an open- ing night She got so close to it she was carried up with it :. How this could happen we don't care-that'S part of the story /. Instead of Bankhead circulating: Was she hurt?" she asked: "How high up did she go?"
 Kay Kyser and Lou Holtz were dining over at Ben Bernie's house and started talking shop "How long you been in show business Kay?" asked Holtz "A long time," replied Kyser, T started in 1926"
 "Humph," humphd Holtz. "In 1926 I already was on the decline three yearSl"
 This is one of those New York tales that never sound true, be- cause they rarely are. This one happened-laSt week A wo- man who often makes front page news (because she is 8 stunning dresser) walked into a midtown fur rier and ordered a mink coat made up Are you Sure," she asked, that these are natural mink skins?" when they showed her selection. Madam" replied the furrier, If these aren't genuine mink. hope I drop dead!" :. So the lady ordered the coat made up and paid for 1t in advance Now she wants hef money back-because she is sure they aren't real because the following morning the furrier dropped dead.
 Newspaper chums from the East now covering Hollywood write the colyum that their biggest surprise is Viv Leigh They had heard she was a firebrand Gas in "Gone') and hard to get along with, etc. They report she is most charming-whether you're news paperman or ain't-and "she has an intelligent warmth that got us'' They pass on the word, they add, because some Coasters are spread ing fantastic tales about her tenn perament, as if people weren't AS far is the New York scribeS there ars concerned the stories about her temperament are as tall and empty as Lucius Beebe's silk hat"
 I'm Script mag, Noel Madison cov- ering London reports: "Walter Win- chell takes Readers Digest to task for crediting gag to Fritz Kreis- Ter. Winchell claims 1t originated with an English actor, whose act flopped in New York and who, when pausing in front of fish shop and seeing the open mouths of the fish exclaimed: sThat reminds me, have a matinee todayP Two years age, in these London notes, begged your pardon for printing this gag. had heard it fifteen years kefore that. It was said by the famous comedian, Malcolm Scott, whose act wasn't flop, who said 1t in Lon don and not in N. Y." <. Well, that just shows how young Noel is We don't doubt that he heard it fifteen years ago We first printed it in The Vaudeville News in 1920 when It acCually happened to a British comic named Tate, and the scene was near the Warburton theater, Yonkers, N. Y.
 Picturesque Reporting: From The Cilco (Cal) News: "The secret of success is making hay with the grass that grows under other peoples feet" From Thomas Wolfe's book, Look Homeward, Angel: His face was a church in which beauty and humor were married" Tom Meany's: "Joe Louis ad- mits he fought d disappointing fight. It's good thing his man. ager isn't Stalin" Olin Miller in The Thomaston (Ga) Times: 0XZoaa ,,nnrk .lilral,, ,lr0ill6n,t feel like