The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-24
Walter lincholI
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 The Mnyor pulled this typewriter ribhon tho other day: Museolini iaGa't oven playing second fiddle in Italy. He's now Just carrying fEit- lor's dxutn.h 4t 'A stfa
 Al JOlssn told IS Q gag tlaa other day (the one about pcl) which We ran . decade ago, but we knew At was Btiii funny and that there was another generation sinco that time. A magazine critic, however, despite the wastepapor shortage, found ir and paper to say it was old.
 Arthur Browns friend, a MT. LichSei1stein, was very unhappy. fl I could only find something to laugh about" he iiitoned. N That night in bed, fe says, while reading the column he laughed 60 hysteFicaliy ct the apcA" gag that iie hit his head against the telephone table, iriflictifg q nasty wound. Get ting up to bathe away the blood, he tripped over the telephone cord and apraiiiod his ankle.
 oid2 The only thing old nhcUt that gAg is the people who re- member t.
 Charles Enfield gets iAugh with this quicIkie yarn. About the penny producer who called in on extra who hadn't worked ifi . long time. I'm not going to be able 10 give you much money for this picture" said the producer, "but it's c nice deal for you. You eat c sandwich iEl the first and last scene"
 Broadway ct 47th St. seems to be dominated by the Lane family. On the Southwest corner there's Q huge electric sign which features tie name of Rosemary Lane as star of "Best Foot Forward" Across the way, above the Strand taeatar enc trance, c sign, equally large, flashes the name Of Priscilla, the star Of "Blues in the Night"
 Tn short, when the signs gre on ct night, the greatest street iia the world S merely c lane.
 one Of BrOaAway's better Nnown iohonieg, who has never worked c day in his life, was moaning in LlndyB: "1've got aa empty feel. ing in my stomach" to said. "My wife left me."
 "Watsamatter7" asked Bob 0tii- ham. Didn't she leave you supper iHloney7"
 Over at Place Elegante, c group tried to define ail optiiYiist. Karl Fuckers krack was . kofker: "An optiriist," he said, "is afl old maid who powders her nose before si1e looks under the bed"
 The walters in the gwaik places had their eyebrows raised the other day when c very regal lady handed them small white cardS-0ti which is embossed the following:
 MRS. DALDRIDdE'S
 old Fashioned Cocktail;
 2 Drops of Bitters
 Ice
 Teaspoonfui of plain water
 one slice Of Lemon Peel
 Bourbon
 Thank you.
 saa hands cut these cards, t appears, because long ego slle got fed Up with bartenderS who had their own ideas of how an old Fashioned should be made. She iG Mrs. Lakim BaidF4dge Of Ithaca, N Y., now At the Waldorf.
 Street scemei The B7th St. Httle Carnegie TheateF f1farquee offers this drama:
 gJaps Bomb Hawaii"
 sBrokefl Blossoms"
 Writes Jack Miiey: "D0ar Walter; Some time ago the Lone Beagle. Llndbergh, who reminds me Of Colin Keiiy--becauEe they're SO ,diffofeiltl ..-cosiflded to c friend Of mine: SThe same people jeering me now may wind Iip cheering me later, because if America gets in the wAr I shall Do the first to fly in defense Of my countryi"
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