Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
The Breakfast liable


OF course. I don't mind telling
you this is a fan note. You are
no Sinatra or Clark Gable. hut
j like your style plenty and just
as / say al the beginning you
are my kind OF guy.
Now what / would like 10!
know is what goes on at the:
breakfast table. In this kennel
where / hang out, Old Sour-Puss
which is another name i have
got for the crum-bum who triesi
TO boss me. they get up around
il or II in the morning and hs'
starts gripping and grousing artl
grouching from the minute hs
leaves the shower until he DROPS
the paper over his egg cup ansi
beats IL out of the house. II
you want a load of small talk
about nothing and nobody try
spending breakfast here.
I have got an idea your bees
and his lady 60 in for bigger
conversation. Ii ought to be an
education just listening to them.
will bet the names they drop
are better than the ones hsar
IN this place. Mostly saloon
md stage stuff.
\ Another thing 1 envy YOU
kHou get around. Your boss took
spuu 20 the country last mcalth
md they tell me you have been
am battleships with him antl l
do not know any one who ma cts
the interesting people you nnt'et.
Tell me. how is your he?
And romances-or do they want
you 10 stay bachelor like my
people here? I have met quite
n few dolls in my time-Ibut
nothing ever comes of il. / got
n way with them--but ] am al
ways being watched, so what is
the use.
No privacy at all. Out sof
clear sky very original thslght
comes to me which / am pes.sing
on to you / have got as much
privacy,as a gold fish! Like that
one?, / think them up right
along-but there is no one TO
pass them on 10.
. Asks About Big Shots
Like a week ago 1 sew
honey of a French midget
poodle and l made a little pass
at her and quick as flash be-
= fore she has a chance 10 say
anything, l whisper You iare as
cute as a bug in rug" Made IT
up on the spur of the mhment.
Well, Fsla, want to tgll you
that babe with her big trown
eyes Just quivered-and if she
had any kind of a tail, she. would
have wagged 1t like n6bodys
business.
I am only telling you Tnis 10
give you an idea about myself
that / am not moron or the
ordinary run of dogs yCb1 meet
on the street-but il is all
wasted with these people here.
Well, to get back to you--I
wish you would drop me line
about what you think of some
of those big shots like Hull and
Morgenthau and Stimson and
Drew Pearson and Baruch. and
/ will write YOU something
about the mugs we handle at
this end like Mike Todd and
Billy Rose and Swiftly Morgan.
Say, have the Harry Hopkinses
got a dog--or do YOU have the
run OF the place yourself?
Does your boss weer the ties
his lady picks for him and kick
shout the telephone bills? Did
he ever come In abolE ) IN the
morning after night IN the
saloons. singing Many Doats'
At the top OF his voice and then
sluawk st the breakfast table
that the canary was making too
much noise? / would like 10
get together with YOU and com
pare notes.
BY the way, Fala, off the
record-strictly between US
what do you think of that doll,
Lassie in the movies Kind OF
a stuck up dame. / would say.
Anyway / want you TO know
I am in your corner pal-and If
you answer me, my favorite
song is going 20 be, For He's
q Jolly Good Fala." SEE told
you / am pretty quick that way.
Hoping TO hound tha. hall
you always. WHISKEY.
Say, that was pretty slick
what they tell me was In the
papers about you have TO be de-
tucked after you are up in that
Bsruch farm. l get de-ticked
every Friday night without even
going 10 farm. Sour puSs has