The Washington times., 1933-08-23


sort of magical conveyance
that could annihilate time
and space and transport me
to p is of the globe where
events were taking place and
people of interest were fore
gathered. There amt no such
thing, and I have to be salts
fled with what I read in the
papers. However, friend
now in Cannes comes to my
aid by "snapshotting" Juan
Les-Pins-the people and the
acti- ties there, with names
well known to Broadway and
Park Ave. Some of his puns
E, are a trifle puerile, to be
euphemistic, but I convey the
picture as he presents it and
beg off: Lady Mendl, whose
husband failed to keep de
Wolfe from the door and
ha-n't regretted it DIS note:
Lady Mendl was the former
Elsie de Wolfe) Maxine Eli
Oft, who has railroad house
,.,H. r. H. Prince George,
Prince CLAIMANT as ever and
surrounded by admirers. Elsa
Maxwell and company enter
tanning as usual. .Bebe DAN
lels, who found herself in the
den of a Lyon and has Ben
there ever since. Freddie Proc
tor, who won the Dublin Sweep
l. stakes, and his wife, who COL
lected a speedboat -. Jimmy
Walker, who lost the New York
sweep, and his wife, Betty
Compton. .Marlene Dietrich,
now the Riviera's greatest &C
tress. Irving Netcher, whose
Boston store made what Mar
shall Field lost, and his wife,
Rosie Dolly, with Bono and
Poupee. .Muratore still missed
by the Chicago opera. Mrs.
Adolph Zukor on the quest
for new scenario. . Poppy d
Albrew demonstrating the diff
ference between 'whoopee' and
la Bombe'. .. Olga Hilliard (al-
ways with Peppy) D.. Ethel
=. Levey, once Mrs. George M.
Cohan and now one of the
greatest yachtswomen in the
Mediterranean-and her hus-
band, Claude Graham White,
still a hi-flyer. Earl Leslie,
with a steady job and million
r. dollar legs. Sgd Chaplin and
his wife doing a chop suey
rumba and wondering what
brother Charlie is doing.
Michael Arlen, still the liter
ary king here-and still null
tiplying %. Gerry MacBride,
American expatriate, with evi-
IDENTIFY no desire to return.
My correspondent adds a few
names and impresses me with
the unparalleled" gaiety at
the famous Europe resort.
Wednesday night at the pre-
mier of the "Power and the
Glory" at the Gaiety. "A NOV
ing drama ID am not so
much impressed with the much
tOuted device h e film people
tag "narratage," for it does not
appear to be So novel or new
to me, as I am with the subtle
direction and the splendid char
acterizatiOn presented by Spen-
Ger Tracy and the excellent per-
fOrmance of Miss Colleen Moore
. Leaving the theater, 1 run
into an old time screen favorite
of mine, Dorothy Dalton, now
Mrs. Arthur HammerStein, and
= farther down the stree AL
Smith, who is most certainly
putting on weight around the
middle. Tuesday night, at the
MaisOn Royal, / settle down
with Georges Sanches, Cuban
sugar millionaire, and MayitO
Menocal, son of the former
president, and am almost car
rfed away with the enthusiasm
of these gentlemen, who predict
that great things are in store
for Cuba with the downfall of
MachadO.
Thursday evening, for dinner
at Helen Gallagher's, chop
house which for the present at
least has caught the Broadway
fancy. Pictures of Tammany
chieftains, past and present,
decorate the walls and the two
largest pictures in the place pre-
sent the features of President
Roosevelt and Jimmy Walker. =.
Here I run into Dorothy Dell,
formerly Miss Universe. who
keeps me from my steak long
enough almost to convince me
that she wishes the boys" would
stop trying to marry her off be-
cause there is nobody, positively
nobody, she'd care to AIRY
right now, etc. AT the Ha-Ha
club Wednesday night, I see
A. j. Powers, the engraving emir,
a stalwart, powerful shouldered
gent, who is a health fanatic
and h a all types of athletic
gad0ets and sun ray machines
in his specially equipped roof
gymnasium. Powers is dead
ringer for Dudley Field Malone
and as affably loquacious.
Tuesday night, I drive out
to Pavilion Royale and get
there just in time to hear Guy
Lombardo's men play Home,
Sweet Home" bardo
seems a little gay. 1t appears