The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-23
THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF A
CHR REPORTER

THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF A
CUB REPORTER
The New YORK correspondent for
The Montreal (Canada) Gazette re-
ported: Item on Mr.. Winchell: It
has been oupr experience that the
name Of Walter Winchell evokes a
flood Of letters from irate Cana
dams. They feel that his attitude
has been anti-British. With this I
cannot find communion For
example: Last week Winchell wrote
q letter to another editor outlining
his views on American preparedness
and European relationships. A few
days later two full columns were
given to replies from readers re-
garding Winchell'S opinions. Please
note the general trend:
"'Isn't there enough vicious war
propaganda in the press, on the ra-
dio and in the movies, without WAL
ter Wtnchell agitating readers?
Americans have no part in war for
a redivision of the world -.
Apparently Mr.. Winchell wants
the U. 8. to wake up and get right
into this war in a more material way
than hitherto. This country must
and should stay out 80. If
we get into this war, Mr.. Winchell,
will you give up your job 70 fight?
Will you dig trenches and live, eat
and sleep in the mud?'
Walter Winchen brands Germany,
Italy and other totalitarian coun-
tries as pirate nations plundering
the weak =. 'Winchell smells!
'Tn none Of the Is letters select
ed as typical of the reader re-
action was there the slightest hint
of q cheer from blind isolations,
from the anti-British bloc or from
the Nazi sympathizers. American
readers apparently regard Winchell
as a champion of the democracies
and so bitterly anti-totalitarian as
to endanger American neutrality. {.
ut seems to me-" continues the
Montreal newspaperman, "that some
Canadian letter writer's are passing
strange judgment on a man whose
powerful voice, although not enlisted
in the same army, Is pointed In
the same direction as the guns of
the Allies. Can it be that all the
blindness on this continent Is not
confined to isolationists-south OF
the border?"
In short, he means that Can
adams accuse me of trying to
keep the United States out Of the
war-and Americans accuse me
of trying to get them into one.
Billy Gould is furious over an &C
tors letter which appeared here
panning Equity's recent quarrel with
the Fairs Jubilee" production
what a member!" shouts Gould,
willing to work for S $40 week!
It's towards like him that make it
tough Shedding for the real actors.
remember when stage hands re-
ceived fifty cents night. Later,
they organized and deserve a vast
amount of credit for sticking to-
gether. And what is the result?
They are to receive So an hour at
thu Fair-the stage hand-who does
nothing to attract an audience. The
stage hand-whose salary starts at
tho moment he enters the theater.
You can train a stage hand In an
hour to be stage hand!
''Id rather be stage hand than
an actor.
The stage hand gets twice the
actors pay.
They do not do thing, but play
pinochle and sing
And don't mean damned thing
to the play!" ----..
Nhultz, the electrician at the Ha-
vana -Madrid, vows the gals between
shows by initiating morracas with
his store teeth. He takes them
out and squeezes them a la cas-
tinets The other ante meridian
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