The Fourth at State

    A crew of painters has been working on the sixth floor of the Hall of Justice, where the district attorney's offices are located.  One painter was slapping his brush just outside the DA's press-room, which has no designating sign on the door and has clear glass panels through which persons in the hall can see in.

    After working there awhile he asked a passing deputy DA, "What do those guys do in there?  They're always on the phone."  He paused, looked around, saw the coast was clear, then said confidentially, "I heard there was a bookmaking going on in the Hall of Justice, and I wondered if  a fellow could place a bet in there?"

    The deputy DA, recalling a man had been arrested a week before as a bookie suspect on the seventh floor, assured the painter they were only reporters phoning in their stories.

'Good Evening, Friends…'

    The TV cliche file is overwhelming again so let's drain off another batch.

    Irene McCroskey of Burbank shrinks every time she hears the line, which she contends is in every British film, "Darling! It must have been awful for you!"

    Nancy Cooney squirms when she hears the villain who is on the lam tell his girlfriend, "I thought I told you not to call me here!"  Also when the innocent victim is caught leaning over a body with a gun in his hand and says, "Are you going to call the police?"

    Al Sisto cringes when he hears a cowboy say, "Now you listen and listen good!"  And more so when the other cowboy retorts, "Now you listen hard!"

    Melissa Caron winces at the sequence in which the girl learns that her father, husband, brother or boyfriend has been shot and insists on riding with the posse.  That sheriff says, "I'm sorry, it's too dangerous for a woman."  The next scene shows her leading the posse.