The Washington times., 1933-08-15
Radio City Star
Has Vacation
In Capital
By GEORGE sPELVIN

Pat Bowman is IN town again,
and that's a summer high spot
for her many friends. She is
here to spend her vacation With
her sister, Mrs. Leo Sughrue, in
Chevy Chase, and so eager for
rest that she has passed up sew
eral opportunities to convert the
holidays into cash, through ap-
pearances at various playhouses
outside New York.
Pat has been knocking them
cold along the main stem these
last te1D monthS-eUen colder than
in the earlier stages of her career.
Ne1U York, apparently, has Just
diScoUered her in a big 1Uay, for 1t
is almost impossible nowadays to
pick up q newspaper or highbroW
magazine 1Otthout finding at least
one picture of charming Pat.
So great is the demand for
pictures and news of our Pat,
they tell me, that another Wash
ingtOn alumnuS, none other than
Leonard Hall, now publicizing for
the Radio City outfit, is working
overtime. Watch out for that
code and that thar old Blue
Eagle, Len-unIess you happen
to be an executive!
Ind I'd, via Subterranean
sources, I learn that what with
Pats numerous engagements, and
Halls own multifarious duties,
he has been practically reduced
to haunting the doormat of her
dressing room in order to make
appointments with her. Maybe
Len can make a name for him
self as a doormat-haunter.
Incidentally, the old boy is fall
ing doUn on the Job OF publicis-
ing himself. The current Radio
City Ne1US is full of pictures of
Wiley Post and Radio City celeb
rites. but no Len. Must be OGcG-
tion time.
Turning now to the latest data
regarding that well and favor
ably known gentleman, Mr.. E. M.
Newman, we discover that he is
spending his time these days, not
in the depths of Africa, not in
the frozen north, but right over
in Brooklyn, viewing his own
movies and acting as severeSt
critic.
Newman has been touring the
South Sea Islands this year, not
with a de luxe cruising outfit
but on the hunt for cannibals
and such. The big job in watch
ing the movies is to make sure
that the titles are right, and
that the various tribes of SavageS
are properly labeled. For if they
weren't, some carping soul would
rise to declalm:
"ThoSe aren't members of
the Uggux tribe; they are mem
bers of the Uggax tribe"
And another reputation-New-
man's-would be snuffed out,
just like that.
1t UiH be interesting to see
Claudette Colbert and Mary
Boland in Three -Cornered
Moon," due Shoytly-G record OF
the mdddeSt family eUer reUeGled
on the screen. 1t 1OiI doubtless
recall, in some measure, "HGy
Feuer" and Marc Connelly'S "The
Wild Man." There is a particu-
larly WodehouSian touch, it seems
to me, in the episode OF the lad
who gets q Job in a play, 1Ohere
he has to say Just one Hne-thGt
line being yes"
Undoubtedly a play about the
movie industry. But all sorts of
possibilities are cOnjured up by
the earth.Shaking Importance of
that one line! Suppose, one night,
he forgot it. Or even more devaS-
tating, suppose one night he
should deliver it as a reSOunding
'NO?"
Those netDshdtDkS 1Uho attended
General JohnSon'S press confer
ence Friday thought the big tel-
lou they didn't recognize 1UdS a
labor man. Now they kno1O-or
maybe some of them do, at least
that it 1UdS HeytOood Broun.
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