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BROADWAY’S GREATEST SCRIBE
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myself. Again the long trail over the
continent. I organized my own song-
and-dance act, and hilled Winchell &
Greene. There was a gel with me, and
together we played every house in the
country except the Palace in New
York. Strange thing about the Pal
ace. Only recently the management
offered me $2,5(X) for a week’s appear
ance there. But the line “once an actor
always an actor" doesn’t hold with me.
I rejected the contract. Too busy
writing articles for the mags to go
back to hoofing. What do I want to
go back on the stage for, anyway? I
don’t miss it. I’ve never been far
enough away from it to miss it.
I went backstage a few days ago for
the first time in ten years. The organ
was playing a mournful tune. The
bunchlight colored the stage in sombre
shades. The scene brought my song-
and-dance past back to me like a flash
—the sordid side of trouping—the disap
pointments the best two-a-dayers can’t
detour—the days I didn’t have a dime
in my pocket—and I said: no stage
comeback for Mrs. Winchell’s boy.
I enlisted in the Navy when America
entered the war. I was 20 then. And,
of all things, they made me confiden
tial secretary to two admirals. What
a juicy slice of irony! First confi
dential sec to a battleship, and now
the mogul scandalmonger.
When the fireworks died out I re
turned to the vaudeville racket. But a
very short time later I made up my
mind to quit the show business and
make something of myself. 1 wanted
to become a newspaper man at any
price. So I started my own newspaper
while still on the vaude circuit. “The
Daily News Sense” it was called, and 1
used to tack it up alongside the mail
box in every theater in which I ap
peared. It consisted of several type
written sheets of paper containing in
timate chatter about actors on the bill
and other personalities in the house.
In no time it became very popular.
Managers praised me for it. Local
papers quoted it.
One theater owner showed my jour
nalistic work to Glenn Condon, editor
of the New York Vaudeville News.
He liked it and wanted to see me.
“I’ve got $15(X) to invest in Walter
Winchell, Inc.,” I said to him when we
met. The money was my savings from
my hundred-dollar-a-week salary as a
hoofer. Would he pay me $25 a week?
I told him I would supply the addi
tional $25 to support myself through
a trial period of six months. At the end
of that time I would know definitely
whether 1 had any business in the
newspaper racket. Well, at the end of
three months I was earning $50 weekly,
and after Condon agreed to allow me
20 per cent on the advertising my
total income was greater than his.
Then the Graphic was born. Just
another tabloid. Here was my chance
to write for a real newspaper. Some
body on the organization staff had
followed my work and took an interest
in it. 1 was hired as dramatic critic,
amusement editor, and columnist for
$100 a week. Four years later the sal
ary was $300. I was on the up and up.
The mags sent me checks instead of
rejection slips. To top it
offers from nearly every p a
when the Graphic objected
tides for the magazines
Mirror would pay 25,000 bm f r
column. I moved my hatr .
Mirror.
Broadway, or New York between
Forty-second Street and Coh-nbus Cir
cle—that’s my world. Roll
about four in the afternoon. At the
office at five. Prepare the cdumn for
the next yawning and begin t!
round of theaters, sin-dens, ritzy par
ties, cognoscenti conclaves drink
little giggle-water here and there am!
sniff out the dirt about tin celebs At
sun-up, or about seven o’clock in th
morning, I go to bed. Mustn’t 1
caught napping on the mazda lane's
night life. Must pump people for news
Always manage to find a leak in the
person who promised not to tell. In
addition, I have almost regular new
sources in Newport, Paris, London, and
every State in the Union. These men
and women, the majority of whom are
reporters, send or phone their tips in.
Most of them have never met me—I
don’t know what they’re like myself—
but they keep me informed because 1
never betray my informaniacs. It’> a
dizzy business—a dizzy job. Yet I’m
happy where I am. If l could get out
of the radio contract I have with the
department store I would scram t
Hollerwood to see the wife and the
kids. I miss little Walda and Gloria
But I can’t seem to manage it. All oi
Broadway must be my back yard.
(Copyright, 1930, by S.A.F.S.)
IN THE LIMELIGHT
I /.' / (Continued from Page 10)
MASTER-SERGEANT BENJAMIN
ROTH, member of the Byrd Antarctic
Expedition, was among the three who
were decorated by Secretary of War
Hurley for heroism in connection with
the expedition. In awarding the Soldier’
Medal to Sergeant Roth, Major Fecht,
chief of the Air Corps, said: “Sergeant
Roth performed his duties as airplane
mechanic in a most metitorious manner,
bringing great credit to himself, the ex
pedition and the United States Army.”
JACOB DUCORE, the founder and
first president of the Minsker Society, a
charitable and beneficial organization,
died recently of heart disease in New
York after a long illness. It is believed
that his death was hastened by the drown
ing of his son, Arthur, which occurred
recently. Mr. Ducore, who was a retired
insurance salesman, was prominent in va
rious Jewish social and philanthropic un
dertakings.
LOUIS B. BRODSKY, since 1924 a
judge in the Magistrates Court, was re
cently named by Tammany Hall as the
Democratic candidate for Congress in the
Seventeenth district. Magistrate Brodsky,
who is 46 years old, had been active in
Jewish philanthropic circles and is well
known in Democratic political quarters.
He is a former chairman of the Borough
Park Keren Hayesod District, a director
of the Hebrew Orphans Home and a
trustee of the Israel Zion Hospital.
SAMUEL LEAVITT, a lawyer, was
nominated as the Republican candidate for
Justice of the City Court to succeed Ber
nard L. Shientag whom Governor Roose
velt recently appointed a Supreme Court
Justice. Mr. Leavitt, who is 51 years
old, graduated from the New York Uni
versity Law School and was admitted to
the bar in 1901. He has been active in
Republican district politics in Manhattan
for the past thirty years.
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