Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-02-18
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Hollywood contract were discussing
Movie Town "How's the wealth
er out there now?" asked the Broad.
wayite. "I'll be leaving for Holly
wood shortly. What clothing should
I take along?" "You might take
along" said Benny, "a knife-proot
vest!" Congressman Clare
Luce, at party, was seated be.
tween playwright Frederick Lonsdale
and producer Gilbert Miller .
Lonsdale asked her: eff you had a
choice, kissing me or Miller, whom
would you choose?" Clare hest
tated "I'll never" said Ions
dale, forgive you for that pause!"
Somerset Maugham's first book
was Liza of Lambeth Eng
lands great book critic, Edmund
Gosse, whose opinions made or
broke writer, wrote an ecstatic
notice about it The next day
Vaughan was on the road to fame
Once he had six plays running
In London at the same time-all wal
Looping hits He followed through
with "Of Human Bondage" and many
other best-sellers And critic
Gosse constantly met Vaughan at
dinners and parties for twenty years
and always said: "Mr. Vaughan,
that wonderful book of yours. How
wise you are never to write another
Incl"
A legend in Cuba (the home of the
famed Bacardi rum) is this. The
rum was originally owned by ten
brothers. Only two survive. Every
time one of the Bacardi brothers
passed on he was buried with a case
OF the rum-''knowing the brothers
In Heaven were waiting for somel"
Pod'n the Round Shoulders: Mar.
gle Holiday tells of the chap who
took out a lovely locker, who was
unbellevably dumb. When he deliv-
cred her home after an endless eve'e
he sighed: you're very beautiful,
but so stupid"
IF you think I'm stupid" she ga
CAD, you should see my mother.
She's all bent over!'
Yes, 1ndeedy!: In the newsreels
from the war fronts our brave com.
manders are usually photo'd lead.
ing their men to the attack. We
saw a closeup like that last night.
The General facing the camera. A
woman in front audibly Remarked:
He's certainly brave - but how
about the unknown photographer who
has his back to the enemy?"
The Magic Lanterns: 1.-THE Lode.
err classic among blood-curdlers
(based on the sinful Jack, the Rip
PERI loses none of its shudders in
its transfer to the screen "High.
er and Higher" is a pleasant song.
ambulance film. 1t brings Prof. ST.
natra into focus. He'll never get as
many girlish squeals for acting as
he gets for paper-dolling, but he gets
by okay. J. Haley, Michele Nor.
gan and the Hartmans help consid-
erably 1.-The Miracle of Nor
gan's Creek" is wild waggery, a d.
rect slap at Pop Dionne. Eduardo
Bracken is pranky parent, and
Betty Hutton jumps out of her skin
from time to time "Where Are
Your Children" deals with juvenile
delinquency. 1t skips the preacher
angles and assumes its audience is
more than eleven.
Willie Collier is dead. There was
a comic. He had wit and Snowman
ship and style of offhand clown
ing that you hardly ever find in the
days of stun-the-peasants technique.
You remember him best from one
of the first Music Box Revues,
teamed up with the late Sam Ber-
nard. That was where Willie popu-
larized the word nifty" A couple
of seasons later he produced a show
for himself and Bernard, called
"Nifties." 1t died, but nothing of
Golfers deserved to.
Another time Collier was a last
minute eplacement-for Lew Fields
it seems. On his first entrance he
turned to the audience and exhibited
his shaking hands-and won the
house. Later, making an exit, he
was asked by the heavy where he
was going.
Back to the dressing room," re-
torted Willie, land study my lines"
Sallies in Our Alley: Over at The
Gamecock a movie actor said that
Hollywood "is wonderful to every
one except people with smallpox"
. To which a cynic querieG:
"You mean to tell me that a guy
with a fiat wallet would be welcome
there?" mo" was the retort,
Sin Hollywood flat wallet is the
first sign of smallpox D.
loves nifty: "When the Yanks take
Casino. they'll have to play with 81
cards as the Duce is missing"
Quotation Workmanship: Bar.
bara Nix: The minutes crawled by
like Wo,1nded men Msor FIJI