Word: colyums
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Major General James Dinkins, Chief of Cavalry of the United Confederate Veterans, has so enjoyed reading "The Spillway," a colyum in the New Orleans Item, that with a fine flourish he commissioned its conductor, William G. Wiegand...
...Manhattan, Red-Headed Woman and her famed short story Night Club won her a reputation for knowing-her-way-about. With pardonable pride College Humor boasted recently that Author Brush, who ''rushes about the world with her eyes open." would write for it a monthly colyum, Manhattan Cocktail...
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...