The Omaha guide., 1933-01-07


It is beginning to look as though
Southern hospitality will have to look
to its laurels-Hollywood outdid it.
self the other nite-Reason The
Songbird of the South-Kate Smith
| have seen a lot Of welcomes here in
Hollywood but this one was the last
word never saw so many Masters
Of Ceremony in my life-Good old
Lew Cody was one-He gets better all
the time4Roscoe (stuttering) Ates
gave everybody a thrill when he in
PRODUCED his dottsr Dorothy-Dorothy
obliged with a song and did she stop
the show-Ohme Ohmy-Bert with
out Woolsey) Wheeler rendered
(meaning to tear apart the popular
song hit Say It Isn't So'-Sammy
Cohen-youll remember Sammy, re-
turned to Hollywood after an absence
Of two years-He did a take-off on
favorite Charles Buddy Rogers,
played almost every instrument dur
ing the rendition Of "12th Street Rag"
The grand finale was the introduction
of Kate-(as if that was needed)-
She Started by singing "Just a Shanty
in Old Shanty Town"-then the theme
song from her new picture Hello
Everybody"-The crowd refused to
let her stop-Next Harlem Moon"
then the ever pleasing "Dinah"-
More ENTHUSIASTICALLY had the
same idea-No rest for Kate until
she sang HER number "When the
Moon ONE Over the Mountains
and did the rafters ring-No one ev-
or received a greater tribute among
their own gang than was shown the
LITTLE Southern girl who made
good in the city Of Pickering
Cables
Now for a little oldIfashioned Cos
sip
Laurel and Hardy are starting
right after the first of the year on
their second feature length comedy
One of the most effective scenes in
"Pig Boats" M-G-M's sub story was
filmed by the light Of a Single flash
light held by Bob Montgomery-Jim-
my large smeller) Durante taking it
on that "schnozzle" from a boxing
kangaroo-Helen Hayes in flowing
white and Clarke Gable in a dashine
uniform Waiting together in a scene
Of "The White Sister"-Mary Pick
ford is using wooden blocks. on her
heels to appear taller in her new pic
ture-Jack Oakies latest "Sailor Be
Good" went over big at an a
nounced preview the other nite-Alice
White gets a feature role in James
(Hard-guy) Cagney's latest at Warn
ers-"Picture Snatcher"-Lloyd Ham
llton has started a new laugh getter
at Mack Sennetts-Did you know that
George Raft was at one time mascot
of the N. Y: Yankees-Wally Berry
and his kids (adopted) sure had a lot
Of fun seeing Santa in the stores
Have you heard Harry Langdons new
song LULU
And nowhere are a few New
Year Observation-Disclosures Powell is
going to learn how to do a .jack-knife
dive-even if it kills him-Joe Brown
is going to keep his eyes open and his
mouth shut-Ruth Chatterton resolv-
es that she will not pay any attention
to such such silly things as resolutions
Lyle Talbot resolves for more do
nestle blondes and less foreign bonds
Edward G. Robinson determines to
work for bigger and better morator-
iums-'Never lead away from a
Queen" says Dick Powell who ought
to know. "And furthermore, never
lead at one"-Bebe Daniels has res
olved to locate the corner that pros
perity is just around
Jimmie Durante is of Italian paren-
tage, a fact remembered BY Buster
Keaton when they were arguing over
! the taxdermist "props" in their new
picture-'I don't think its funny t.
stuff a lion" remarks Jimmy "But
do think it would be funny to see q
lion stuff himself-with Keaton"
you'd be better to feed to the lion
insisted Keaton eff he wasn't fussy
about Italian cooking
And So endeth another lesson a.
bout the boys and girls in the Village
Of Elickering Gahhies-CIIT-