Smyrna times., 1933-05-10
SIDE LIGHTS OF
NEW YORK CITY
Told BY Walter Trumbull in
His Own Immical Way
of Doings in City
INTERESTING SKETCHES

An actor, starring in a movie
drama, rented bungalow near the
studio. Back of it, another house
stood, facing the next street. The
actor and his wife occupied a bed.
room in the rear of their home and
as he frequently worked at night she
became nervous and had iron bars
put over the windows. When he
came home he frequently, before re-
tiring, demonstrated the stuff he
had done that day. The neighbors
told their real estate agent that they
were going to break their lease.
Nobody" they said, "can be ex-
pected to live in this place. There
is crazy man next door who rants
and roars and who is SO violent that
they have him locked in a room with
bars at the windows. Sometime he
might get loose"
No man knows more stories of the
stage or tells them better than Err
nest Lawford. He says that Sir
Henry Irving once was presiding at
big public dinner when a card was
handed him bearing the information
that Nat Goodwin was among those
present Sir Henry said:
Il have just learned we have with
MS tonight a great American actor,
a man famous in two countries, a
celebrated wit whose name is a
household word. I call upon him to
rise, and present to you Mister
Mister-Mister Nit Goodwine."
Several years ago a very rich
man, who had in his day made and
lost several fortunes, decided that
whatever happened he never would
be broke again. He therefore Great
ed a trust fund of considerable
amount. The income was to go to
certain specified charities, unless he
needed it himself, when, by the
terms Of the trust, he was to have
first call. don't know, under pres
ent conditions, just who is getting
that income now.
The wife Of Jesse L. Lasky, Of
moving picture fame, is Bessie
Lasky, the painter. She really
makes a vocation of her work with
the brush and canvas and her paint
ings have been exhibited in galleries
in New York, Paris and London.
Some Of them have been purchased
by the Newark museum. Her first
paintings were Of the Mojave desert.
Mrs. Lasky is a slim brunette, who
looks far too young to be the mother
of her son, Jesse Lasky, Jr.
Elsie Scheffler Payne once ran her
own dress shop but her present in
terest is in life masks. Her first
attempt was a mask Of her own
face, which she colored with rouge,
paint and lipstick. Now she does
life masks of others and among her
subjects have been Franklin P.
Adams, Rosamond Pinchot, Glenn
Anders, Francis Lederer, Walter
Iippman, Frieda InescOurt, Dorothy
Stickney and Mrs. Adrian Iselin.
She made a mask of Groucho Marx
and added the glasses. cigar and
mustache. 1t Is so lifelike that If
Groucho ever wants double he can
hang the mask on anyone of his
height and build and send him up to
bat for him.
II you ever wish to locate Reinald
Werrenrath and can't trace him by
listening for his barytOnes. look
for him in an antique shop One of
his hobbies is bargaining for
broken-down looking antiques and
then fixing them up and polishing
them until they look hale and
hearty again. Mr.. Werrenrath Is
good at backgammon, no beginner
at poker, and plays solitaire by the
hour in a perfectly honest manner.
he likes mystery stories and has
been known to read them at the
dinner table, becoming so engrossed
that it is almost possible to feed
him spinach, which he abominates.
On days when Music in the Air"
has no matinee he takes a complete
rest by going to the theater. His
favorite movie actress Is Greta Gar
bo, and he also likes steamed clans.
g. 1888, Bell syndicate.-wNU Service