Mcallen Daily Monitor

Thursday, July 16, 1936.
MAN ABOUT MANHATTAN
By George Tucker
NEW YORK
One of the intriguing parlor games of the moment is reciting quotations that have contributed to the careers of New York's more famous sons and daughters.
An easy one to start with is "Hello, Sucker!" one of the two lines that helped make Tex Guinan queen of the nightclubs. The other of course, was "Give this little girl a great big hand."
It was Eva Tanguay who shouted from Hollywood after a successful career on Broadway: "Fifteen years of torso-tossing... Fifteen years of sleeping through the day... Now I'm in the movies and I can look at the sunlight without having to squint my eyes."
Meet Joe Jacobs, the prizefight manager who piloted Max Schmeling to a heavyweight championship. He will always be remembered as the man who raced to the microphone and shouted "We wuz robbed!" after Max dropped the title to Jack Sharkey.
Then, too, there was Jack Dempsey's explanation after Gene Tunney defeated him in the rain at Philadelphia.
"How did it happen, honey?" cried Estelle Taylor, who was then the Mauler's wife.
Mumbling through puffed lips, Dempsey grinned. "I guess I forgot to duck."
Of importance, too, is Jean Nash, whose five marriages and glamorous clothes have excited two continents for years, and who once was moved to observe: "As an ideal hairwash, I prefer champagne."
The late Marilyn Miller drew many chuckles when, after wedding a man younger than herself, she explained: "I've always wanted a husband and a baby, and now I have both."
Ted Lewis with his "Is everybody happy?"
Noel Coward saying "New York air is like champagne" and Kate Smith with "Are ya listenin'?"
are others that are sure to bob up in any remembrance contest.
But, most hilarious (if ill-advised), or so it seems to this scribbler was Jimmy Donahue's salute to Haile Selassie while visiting in Mussolini's back yard. Stepping to the balcony of a hotel in Rome Jimmy signalled the attention of the crowd and cried "Viva l' Ethiopia!" The next day the young heir to the Woolworth millions (well, some of them) was kicked out of the country and told to stay out
"Why," inquires Helen Gleason, "aren't women as interested in writing songs as they once were? They used to score hit tunes every now and then, but in the last few years nearly all the popular music has come from male composers.'
I can't answer this one, Miss Gleason.