Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-29
Come, Sally.
Let's Remain
Good Friends
After All, Your Dog Sara
WAS Dining We'll
By WESTBRooK PEGLER

A GROUP OF Washington al
- torneys. New Dealers, no
doubt. claiming 10 represent Miss
Sally Wilson, have threatened 10
sue me for premature publ,ca-
ton recently Of her play,
GRANDMOTHER Has Gone TO the
Bar, and for saying that her
late dog, Sara, sort of Scctty,
died of govt after years OF UNI
wise dining at the garbage cans
of the more opulent embassies
near the Wilson home.
These attorneys represe n I
that Lyle Wilson, the father OF
Miss Wilson. who is TO- had no
right TO authorize publication
of her work, that il wasn't
finished. anyway, and that the
young playwright, herself, has
suffered modification, hurili-
alton and rage by reason of the
implication presented 10 the
public that Sara was made
quately fed at home.
This could be serious, not az
litigation. but AS personal feud
because / have TO 90 TO Wash
ington from time to time and
the town is not big enough TO
hold Miss Wilson and any one
who ACQUIRES her enmity.
4 S HER attorneys truly OBJ
"a served in their letter. her
father enjoys peculiar inn
munity because any one who
affronts him invites horrible
personal reprisais from a young
woman who kicked her teacher
for keeping her after school and
was fighting Commando style
long before the public heard the
word.
She and her partner, Miss
Boops SpaatS. the daughter OF
Mai. Gen. Carl Spaats. the
commander of the American
air forces in Europe, are a pair
Of bashibaZoukesses 10 whom
the rules of civilized warfare are
effete nonsense and to offend
either is 10 anger both.
Perhaps L had better keep
away from Washington until
this blows over. but meanwhile
/ might placate them by ex-
planning that there was no way
of telling that the play, Grand
mother Has Gone 10 the Bar,
was an unfinished work, and
recalling some facts OF the life
of the late Sara.
am afraid I will have TO
insist, though gently, that Sara
was addicted 20 dining out. and
explain how Miss Sally'S parents
and guests in the Wilson place
could tell where she had been.
CARA was nocturnal and her
- social activities took place
generally after Miss Sally had
gone to bed and the ambassador
and ministers of the row had
pushed back their chairs and
the dishes had been done.
Along about 10 in the evening.
Sara would run TO the door and
bark and Miss Wilson'S mother
would understand that she had
dinner engagement somewhere
in the diplomatic quarter and
let her out.
An hour or two would pass
and there would be another
bark meaning that she had dined
and was back.
Now Sara was not one OF
those dogs who could actually
speak beyond the extent Of let
ting people know that she
wanted to 60 out or come IN
and letting the whole wide world
know that she hated William
Hassett. the confidential secre-
tary of President Roosevelt,
who entertained the same feel
ing toward her from the night
she chewed the back out of his
new overcoat
IF SARA had pimento on her
Il whiSkerS, never having
learned TO use napkin, she had
been dining with the Mexican
set and if il was spaghetti she
had been calling on his excel
lency. the Italian ambassador.
Her tastes were varied and