Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

WALTER WINCHELL
Park Row Visitation
Last evening, sCGlking north, along the Rop,
On paUements trod by Edgar Allan Poe,
WashiHgt0w Irving, and a lettered host,
Sure as you re born, I sap there many ghost:
Greeley, Just as he Vds ere he vent pest,
Brisbane and Briggs and Tad, and all the rest:
The Dons, Marquis and Skene, as dIcays gay,
McGeehan, s0ith a cdulifloVer bouquet;
Old Pulitzer and all his men renowned.
Who toited With lore that made the World 90
round;
Dick Harding Davis in an opera cape,
And Heypood Broan-d far from phantom
shape:
Ghosts one and all, and all good men and true:
Ghosts-but not one ghost-writer in the crew.
AVERY GILES
LAST NIGHT someone said to Quentin
Reynolds: "Willkie is a man without a
party"
well" said Quentin, "they can never
say that he's man without country"
THE WEST Coasters tell you that even IL
the Japs do invade California they're hay.
ing pipe dreams if they think that will get
them in to see David Selznick.
ONE ACTOR asked another if the news
paper accounts of war atrocities didn't
strike him as little unbelievable.
Certainly not, retorted the other player,
I've acted In weirder ones'
NEAL OHARA mentions the Associated Press
ruling against letting It's foreign correspondents
pick up little NICOLA lecturine when they get
back from the battle front.
That rule was the best break Robert st. John
ever had. He quit the AP FOR the platforms
wrote best-seller cFrom the Land of Silent
People, and wound up as Q London news broad
caster at better wages
And AP lost q crack reporter
IT'S GOING to be long time between new
suits according to the tightening up program on
mems duds There won't be many dudes by the
time the war ends.
Oh, well. patch on your pants is kick in
Japs.
ACTRESS Jean Muir. reports The Times
studio boy. once regarded q movie career as IAN
impossible hallucination."
COULD be. Leo c. Roster claims the only
time the filrh folks leave the dream world and
face reality Il when they 90 to sleep.
PAULA CRYSTAL, the concert singer. tells
OF the air raid warden making the rounds Of an
apartment hotse. One question Is: Have you
any pets here7"
A woman on the 18th floor admitted she had
q rooster in the apartment. He warned her It
was illegal. and then went on
On the floor below he asked tenant Have
you any pets?" She said no-she hadn't because
o small city apartment was no place for pets.
We'll" he said. the woman above you keeps .
rooster" whereupon the 10th floor lady let out
o piercing shrek and then swooned
When she recovered she told the warden that
for months she had been visiting a psychatrist
ON the advice OF her Northumberland every
time she told him she heard a rooster crow he'd
shout You are going crazy
DALAD1ER told the Rom courtroom that
petty pickering among French Statesmen In time
OF crisis Is what gave France TO the Nazis on a
platter.
1t Is also worth noticing that Laval. the best
administration hater over there, was taken care
OF when the conquerors came.
BROADWAY Dictionary might Club Edi-
tion): Headwaiter: He thinks you're q louise for
o small tip-a yokel IL you leave him q big one
milne Host: The only guy In the joynt clean"
enough TO get the likker license Meaning no
police record. Chlorine: A gal who can get q
full-length coat out Of q pnt-sized wolf Show
girl Same as chlorine except she wears longer
coat. Minimum: The lowest bail you can get. .
Wendy Iglehart: Deep In the Heart of Tex's"
-NcCrary)-ha, hal. finale: All the corny acts
presented en- masse. Eastsde swank Spot
Havelock Ellis, set to music. .westsde Spot
James T. Farrell. ditto to tinny music. Floor
show: Second-rate production Of q first-rate
plagiarism.
CAPITOL Hill wass claim Congress recent
try for pensions wasn't 50 unreasonable
They name members of both Houses who'd
be worth money to the Govt-out Of office
BOOMERANG: Here's the latest draft
dodge" gossiped around. Get yourself q
friendly doctor case Of pneyn1onia and