Word: colyums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lilly Turner (written and produced by Philip Dunning & George Abbott). To anyone interested in U. S. colloquialism is recommended Gasoline Bill Baker's "Pipes From Pitchmen" colyum in The Billboard. It is devoted to the affairs of itinerant vendors of medicines ("med"), penknives ("shivs"), soap ("gummy"), periodicals ("the sheet"), etc. Not so diverting by half is the latest offering of Playwrights Dunning & Abbott (Broadway) which is concerned with a travelling medicine show...
...What happened we don't know," chirped Franklin Pierce Adams in his New York Herald Tribune colyum, "but probably it was this: Mr. Smith said in good faith that he would write the piece; then this Outlook thing came along and he probably needed some copy quick, so he chucked that piece to the Outlook linotyper and when it came to doing another piece for the Post he had no more ideas. Any writer who thinks this is a bad guess isn't any writer...
...Seff & Forrest Wilson which started the cycle when it was produced in Manhattan last year. Colyumists in the cinema are usually embroiled with gangsters and Colyumist Alvin Roberts (Lee Tracy) is no exception. He is sufficiently lacking in decency and a sense of news values to lead off his colyum with the information that an unmarried radio singer is about to have a child. When he learns that the child's father is a suburban racketeer it places him in the embarrassing position of "knowing too much." More true to genre than Colyumist Robert's embroilment with...
Readers of "The Wisdom Box," George C. MacKinnon's colyum in the Boston Daily Record, learned last month of a strange & wonderful white rat, owned and disowned by Philip Baldwin of Medford, Mass., radio control man for National Broadcasting Co.'s Station WEEI. Radioman Baldwin, reported Colyumist MacKinnon, bought two white rats, one of which soon disappeared from its box in the Baldwin garage. It had been missing ten days when Mr. Baldwin suddenly beheld it perched impudently on a brake drum of his automobile. He grabbed, missed. The rat darted out of sight into the car's internals...
That was more than the Miami Herald could stomach. The offending paragraphs were deleted before the Herald printed the colyum. From the next day's offering the Herald lopped off seven paragraphs dealing with California and paradise. On the following day Colyumist Brisbane told how economically one can live in California. Miami readers were not to suffer that. The Herald tossed the whole col-yum aside, dug up and printed instead some two-weeks-old Brisbanalities about naval armaments, the death of Santos-Dumont, etc., etc. Fortnight ago Westbrook Pegler, eloquent sports colyumist of the Chicago Tribune...