The Washington times., 1933-08-09

up Ill ldlCy WOFuS ana FANCY
which did not, to be candid
The Phil Harris debut at the
Penn Roof did lure a host of
mixed celebrities, as I've told
YOU in a previous column, vary
Ing from a few eminent pic
ture personageS such as Norma
Shearer and jeanette Mac
Donald to aviation aces like
Wiley Post and Jimmie Mattern
and Clarence Chamberlin and a
newspaper principal like Walter
Eppmann. L. This was on Mon
day night and it started a week
that held a promise.full but
11zzled shortly thereafter, leaving
nothing much to discuss except
some exceptionally hot weather,
which in itself was too full of
heat and humidity to inspire
any conversational effort.
Thursday night brought what
the dramatic critics proclaim as
the first play Of the new
theatrical season, something
called, "Going Gay" which did
60 gay in a few isolated spots,
but produced nothing to excite
the emotions save for the Peter
Arnoesque characterization por-
trayed by Walter Kingsford as
q T. CORTLAND Smith. Inter
mission perSonageS Of name
and repute were few-save the
inevitable Tommy Manville, jr.,
with his orchid-festooned Neva
Lynn. Norman Anthony,
brilliant young gentleman with
novel magazine ideas, and
Arthur Swanstrom, a lyricist Of
parts, were among the curb
teetererS, and the peSence Of
the fetching Queenie Smith was
not unexpected since her hus-
band, certain Mr.. Robert Gar
land, is, by virtue of his calling,
entitled to two seats gratis, on
the aisle, fairly we'll down front
Which explains also the
presence Of your breathless
Broadway correspondent and his
charming companion. .As for
the new showboat, that was to
take place last night and this
Is being written in the after
noon.
Friday night at the StOrk
Club 1 passed a table at which
were seated Lillian Roth and
her judicial husband, Judge Ben
Shalleck, and a handsome look
ing couple who appeared some
what distrait. Mr.. and Mrs.
william Avrutine-that is to
say, MIR. and Mrs. since early
that morning, for this, it
seemed, was their wedding day
:. Missing at the wedding had
been Charles (Chuck) Fein-
berg, a lad popular and well
known on Broadway, so after
the ceremony the newly-wed
couple decided to visit Feinberg
and receive his blessings. ).
They arrived half an hour after
Chuck Feinberg had passed
away-he had been ill for many
months.
Later on Park Avenue and
Fifty-second Street roadster
pulls up containing the lanky
form of Ted Husing, radio an
nouncer and amateur aviator,
and Lennie Hayton, an orcheS-
ira leader and professional mu-
Sician. You must come with
us, Louie" shouts Husing in
hail-fellow-well-met manner,
there are doings and excite
ment at the apartment of
Jimmy Dunn" I ignore the
invitation and drive out to the
Riviera, where I perceive that
Emil Coleman seems unusually
unhappy and disturbed up there
in front of his band and later
he disappears. L learn that he
Is i'll and the following day in
formation comes to me that he
is bedded with a serious case of
ptomaine. My view of the gen.
eral proceedings is blocked by
the unbelievably broad back of
an unbelievably huge fellow sit
ting with Harry Lenetska, who
happens to be, as I suspected
1t might be, Primo Carnera, a
pugilist we'll known in these
parts and others. So I permit
the Signor to embrace my hand