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...President Coburn's last public act concerned Motormaker Cord, so did President Cohu's first public act. Because of a "prediction" in Walter Winchell's gossip colyum, President Cohu found it necessary to issue a denial that Mr. Cord was about to buy American Airways...
...colyum of Washington chit-chat in the Scripps-Howard newspapers Reporter George Abell told how Dr. Erich ("Candid Camera") Salomon pointed his lens at a group of important Democrats jovially quaffing drinks in an anteroom at the Jackson Day dinner. Just as he snapped the shutter Dr. Salomon heard someone shout: "Hey, you can't take that picture!'' It was Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland. Continued the Governor: ". . . But you can come in and have a drink...
...have been friends with or married to Rudy Vallee; three Broadway playboys playing cards in a penthouse; the man who makes Mayor James J. Walker's shoes, and Mayor Walker in jolly mood, strumming one of his own tunes on a piano. In effect much like the chipper colyum of Broadway gossip which Louis Sobol writes for the New York Evening Journal, the Sobol newsreel seems ingenious and potentially popular, depending almost entirely on the intimacy of the revelations made. Observers wondered where Sobol had procured his material. He had borrowed old shots of Thaw and Nesbit from...
Cartoonist Hershfield's contract with King Features expired Dec. 31, was not renewed. Welcomed, with some surprise, by Macfadden, Hershfield signed a two-year contract for a daily cartoon and a daily colyum called "If I'm Wrong, Sue Me." When King Features saw that he proposed to call his Graphic character "A. Kabibble," it accepted the invitation, threatened suit for an injunction on the ground that Abie Kabibble?character and name?was its property. Cartoonist Hershfield changed his character's name to "Meyer the Buyer" and grimly prepared to fight...
...craftiness, stinginess, cowardice?U. S. Jews have more than tolerated him. Reasons:1) he was the "comedian" (not the hero) of the strip, surrounded by un-caricatured Jewish characters; 2) he was preferable to the oldtime stage comic Jew who wore beard and derby, talked with his hands. A colyum in the current issue of The Zionist comments on his change of locale: "Here is where the Graphic gets our daily two cents." Two months ago many a Jewish weekly printed an editorial for the 18th birthday...