The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-30

Earl Wilson's new book, 'Pike's Peak or Bust" Doubleday entry, out soon, is expected to outdo his Eight Ball', which passed 100000 on the same type of topic :. Oliver Morosco's widow will revive Canary Cottage" the music for which. few remember, is by Earl Carroll
 Wolves have been called almost everything, but there's new word for them on Broadway since the lupos added the China Doll to their hunting grounds. The angle-eyed pigeons there, New York's only Oriental chorines, call the predatory pack "chai long," straight Canton ese for wolf" But, sotto voce, they add, "fon guey,' That means white devil'
 There may be merit in George Whites lament-that he isn't a criminal and shouldn't do a year on California rockpile, or roads for his fatal auto accident l have known White long and well :. His consuming passion was betting on horses :. . He never was drinker He was a vaudeville headliner with Tot Qualters) as a rst-claSs hoofer, a handsome lad with bearing and genius for wear ing clothes |. =. He spurted into the big money overnight with his first "Scandals" almoE in the zieg- field class.
 After six solid weeks of gossip and "reminiscences, your respectful eversigned will confine himself for the next II months to one weekly offering, All in the Family"
 Walter Winchen, who took breather from all his public activi- ties during the period, will be in again, day after tomorrow.
 The preponderance of Chicago anecdotes brought me offers from three publishers for book of them. None was accepted. The worth while stories will go into my auto biography, if I ever get around to writing it.
 In answer to many inquiries, l wish to state that they were authentic, with here and there per- haps a twist of the story-teller's license in episodes about Duffy the Goat, Monk the Mugg, Charlie the Chisel and Make McCool.
 But the tales of the Carbarn Ban- ditS, Bedelia, Annie Oakley, Sheriff Tom Barrett and Frank LeWandoW- skis "Floorless Dance etc, were factual. With no notes, entirely from memory, they were tram scribed as straight reporting.
 It may be revealing to point out that these items were published in Chicago, where there are still many who recall the events.
 And there are plenty left over, for next year.
 Mike the Pike (Heidler) and Monkeyface Charlie (Genker l didn't get around to at all, but they'll keep; Jocko Briggs and how we saved him after he was sen- fenced to die for murder will have to wait; Koestner and Holland, two young thugs, confessed robbers and killers who were sprung" through the amazing legal work of Can't we'll and Erbstein, two lawyers around whom a whole library could be written, are booked for AT; some deeds of Charlie FitzmorriS, legend ary reporter whose like has rarely lived Qater Chief of Police of Chi cago, now a millionaire coal mer- chanD will enliven columns to come
 It's been fun. But I can under stand why Walter stretched his siesta to six weeks this year. It is a bit of grind.
 Reported Romancing" takes ur usually a dozen lines. But it takes up hours of checking and cornpil- ing. Why folks should like to read such thing about strangers, many of whom we don't even partially identify, for lack of room, is one of those eternal human mysteries But I suppose there's a vicarious thrill in seeing a male name and a female name linked-shows that stuff still goes on.
 Aloha, then (eXcept for All ir the Family"), until we meet again