The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-06
Walter WincheIl
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legianS on The Ad Lib and It's Importance in Everyday Life" One Of the upStartS sprung a Joe Mill Ter on him and asked for sample ad lib topper. Baker, stumped. gagged his way out by saying: "The best way l could reply to that line would be to ad lib ten seconds of silence"
 The Morning Mail: Dear Wal ter" writes Helen Hiett of N B. C., "Id like to call your attention to a danger in the current and growing tendency to deprecate ou enemies - ard the rising tide of 'jingoism' so often typical of a country going to war. If the Japs are sub-human. filthy little yellow weddings, where will be ou glory in defeating them? Are we less than that they have given us such a wallopirg to begin with?
 Its high time to be realistic and admit frankly that our enemies are strong, brave, well-prepared otherwise there would be no merit in our victory once it comes, and no moe popular appreciation of the necessity for dealing adequately with them than there was in the case of defeated emany at the end of the last war
 The new cure for alcoholism is nausea producing drug which makes the rinnpotS sick of the taste, sight or smell of fireWater.
 That's only you old friend Mickey Finn with a diploma.
 Five daughters of five famous fathers appear in the cast of Let teS to Lucerne.' That's not the way it used to be. Girls acquired in- fluential Daddies AFTER they reached the stage.
 Hitler, always a plugger for pa ganism has injected a religious note into his Whimperings, now that the going is tough. He's sorry his armies destroyed so many churches. He'd find them useful to hide behind.
 One of B'way hits, "In Time to Come honors President Wilson Now the movies plan to revere his memory with biog Excuse the finger-pointing, but drop into the Public Library some day and be 'eminded how many honored Ameri- cans made Q good living out of attacking Woodrow Wilson's peace efforts.
 John Kieran nominates Gin Cos mopoltan) as his pet peeve the guy who talks out of turn.
 Info, Please, where John is starred, would be less exciting if the pop off was outlawed
 J. B. Griswold chides the movie moguls for refusing to be impressed with Greer GarSon's book larnin' when she appeared in the Holly woods. They vetoed her with Brains don't photograph" Miss Carson had other points that did, but just t.he same the filmsters' edict is piNVeJ Soott 1luC tO AOAlON III DICK ing actresses.
 A Norwaik wag says that "the commander in chief of the Jap fleet is looking forward to dic- tating peace in the White House in Washington. They get that way, sometimes, after the fourth glass of saki."
 F'ergoodneSsaki!
 The capture of the German ship (OdenWald in the South Atlantic recently (despite it's disguise as an American vesseD happened, we hear, because of boner. When the Warship first encountered it - it was certain the stranger was American but asked for identifica- tion. anyway.
 Promptly came breezy reply typlcally Yankee Doodle in spirit and zing - but it contained one word that trapped it.
 The word was Broadway slang and the Germans used it wrongly. That aroused the suspicion of the U. s. Warship and the rest is now in the history books.
 What was the slang word? Sorry. That's a naval secret.