The Washington times., 1933-09-04
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
BY Louis SObOI-
BROADWAY MERRY-CO-ROUND

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Aside to Huey Long Getty eds
please take notice.: The gang"
who socked you at the Sands
Point Bath Club was Gerald
KrimSky, brother of John, the
movie producer-his retort to
your water gag"!!. .. Georges
Metaxa, the musical comedy
star, who was divorced by his
wife only the other week, ap-
piled for a license Wednesday
in Greenwich to wed Peggy
Stafford, II, society deb. An
other hueylong erupted at the
snooty Lido Club, Salty, when
Walter Richards, society back
gammonist, took offense at re-
marks passed by Warren Carter
and took a swat at him. .Sheila
Barrett, the mimic, and Dick
son Kramer, polo playing broker,
are On the Stove. .Fragmen-
tary movie romance: Marshall
Neilan will assign a role to
Blanche Sweet, once his wife, in
his next flicker. Murray L.
Rome, N. Y. broker, aged 36,
eloped Tuesday with Catharine
Coe Willis, As, wealthy DIR. of
the late John N. Coe. For the
first time since the death Of her
father, Renee Belasco Gest
stepped into the Belasco Thea
ter Tuesday night for the open
ing of Come Easy. Verne
Porter, the mag man, has
adopted a baby.
The Frank HitchcOckS brother
Of Polo Player Tommy have
drifted. She's Sis Atwell, whose
brother George has just parted
from Clifford Cochrane's DIR.
Jean Harlow is still trying to
explain that hair-pulling match
on the Coast with the blonde
extra -. The revived Jimmy
Dunn-June Knight romance is
iced again.
Gordon Andrews, pianist at
the Ha-Ha, and Floria Vestoff,
the dancer, are scheduled to be-
come Mister and Missus to-
day. Buddy Rogers fell on the
set the other day and bruised
his dainty thighs; result, Take
a Chance" held up for days..
The flicker will be completed
today and the new Rowland
Brice piece will be "Ex-Judge,"
purporting to be an expose Of
Tammany Hall. One local firm
raised set of its employees from
$35 to $3.50 per week, thereby
bringing them into the execu-
tive class with no working hours
limit. Ballard Macdonald, the
composer, abandons Broadway
and shifts his lares and penates
permanently to Tahiti. David
Hutton opens in the Fox-Brook-
lyn just about the time Aimee
Mcpherson brings her act into
the Capitol here. Revived Po.
lice Gazette out and features
those ads and cover pictures
just like the old times.
Illustrator Harrison Fishers
only living relative (aside from
his brother in Paris) died on the
Coast Monday-an aunt
Victims of robberies in hotel in
the sos include Robert Coleman,
dramatic editor, $50: Bee Mo-
rosco, $50, and Ben Slevin, $40
License number Of Jimmy
wellington, announcer, w I'll
stands for his initial and the
address Of N. B. Che went to
OsWego to get it David
Freedman, author and collabor-
ator with Eddie Cantor, ailing
again The Roy Atwells
veteran comedian) are $3.50 -.
Arriving Tuesday from London
is Walter Frank bringing team
Of card players who will launch
a tourney to introduce a Euro
pean game to supplant bridge
something called 'spadowiscze,"
long popular among Polish peas
ants.
With license applied for and
arrangements made for the mar.
rying justice, Charles Murray,
the orchestra leader and Blanche
Martin failed to show up for the
merger in Greenwich H. B.
Franklin is the purse carrier be-
hind Jed Harris this season
Incidentally, A. C. Blumenthal
informs me that he will devote
most Of his time to his newly
acquired Poll circuit in New
England but will produce three
plays he brought from Eng
land-"fOr the fun of it,"
Out of the mouth of Vera Mil
ton: "The doctor said he might
have to get insulin but I said
oh, you look like you're too
decent " Lilyan Astaire
who went to Paris for a divorce
returned last week, spotted her
husband. Leon Osterwel at the
pier, and reconciled Minor
B'way romance: Jack Nolan
and Helen Wray Young
George Vanderbilt is now &C.
companied by two bodyguards-
kidnapping threat The May.
fair Club when it reopens will