Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-16
New York
Letter

NEW YORK, Nov. I6.-The Ralph
IN. Y. World publishers) Pulitzcrs
Peggy Leech) anticipate a blessed
event Ziegfeld is bargaining
TO land Clara Bow-vo-deo-doh for the
Baking moving version or SHOW
Femme Thought: Then there's
the type az friend who never flirts
with a chum's girl-if the chum Is
looking.
A "rumor" has II. Is. Swope. re-
firing managing editor on the Morn
ing World. heading Radio Corp.
II Can't Give You Anything But
Lovee' is the current champ seller.
doing 100000 daily these famine days
when a $4,000 shcet-muslc sale is
considered a WOW. Earl Carroll
and Dorothy Knapp. coiEcidentally
enough. were secretly ailing W. the
same time at the Sherman Sy. Hosp.
recently. The local supply of
pash poison is not 50 hot.
j. r. .McEyoy has sold his interest
in Americana" which closed Satdae
night after a week. Bugs Baer,
who Is also ghostiRg the Moran and
Mack newspaper stuff. has n fort
night in which TO rewrite the revue
which will feature J. Tanner. =.
Eighty-one mcndicants call West
18th street their beat. j. O'Coa-
nor's "B'way Racketeers" CLiverigh.l
~ topping TIT ace sellers at Breu-
tano's already. Dsye Dawne.
Warner Bros. actress is divorcing
Gene Weincr Of Wall street.
Eleanor Bachman, or Philly s~assia-
~ whose pappy is . partner in Par
| IRISH a. Co.. the bond brokers'. M the
new exploiter for the Columbia
Roasting System. Robert Mont
gomery Of Possession" has teen
signed by Sam Goldwyn 70 be Wilma
Banky's new love interest. but it's a
sickritt. Equity will blaze away
at another ~well-known ham. who
walked out Of THE Squealerr be-
cause a former heart" joined the
cast.
What clean play producer urged
the Society Of Authors. at its last
meeting, 70 pass n resolution asking
the Encyc Britannica not 20 permit
George Jean Nathan % write on the-
atricals for that great tome? .
The society. however. voted down the
motion. Amy Flashner, John
Farrar's phormer sec, is reading
phoreign phiction for Harper's,
which will publish in tome form ev-
erything that the Sateveepost omit
ted from Eddie Cantor's current life
story. The way says he calls
his new mansion The House That
iZegfeld's Jack Built" or "The Can
tor Home for Girls" Heheh!
One Of LIES best contributors Is
a tragic ~recluse in Cincinnati
Guess what Main Stem reporter IN
mentioned throughout La Guinan's
forthcoming CAB flicker-oucha ma
gouchal Cosmo Hamilton IL
completing a new play, The A.
Feeling" in London . IL will be
done here simultaneously T.
II. A.. columnist, ties his youngest
son on a clothesline in the yard of
his G'wich Villith shack . George
Bernard Shaw gets 65 cents per word
from Yankee papers. . . d. Jim Tully.
the hobo-writer, is tenanting at the
Vanderbilt. ~ifyouplizz.
Automatic cocktail shakers that
play "I've Got Those Alcoholic
Blues"-and beer, cheese and crack
ers-are now considered smart
among some of the soontier set. .
Pierre DeRohan. succeeded as critic
on the American by q. w. Gabriel,
late of the Sun. remains on the staff.
NJ. The Gilbert Seldes will alc0-
holiday in Bermuda IL cost a
cold cream merchant 80 grand for
the Endorsement Of a famous
| duchess, five going TO the B'way
playboy who arranged the contact.
Z. The Yep "stowawayr was a
| plant"