The Washington times., 1934-09-01
Sally on B'dway

Broadway situation: Jack
Dempsey and Hannah Williams
sat only a few seats away from
Estelle Taylor at the premiere
of Kill That Story" Wednes-
day night. Sally Rand brings
her patch and bubbles to the
Paradise next month. Golf
Champion Sylvia Federman is
victim of the dysentery plague.
Chief attraction at the Gen.
trail Park Casino "Wednesday
night WdS Constance Bennett in
q mink cape do1On to her ankles,
sitting 1Dith A. C. Blumenth1l.
For second time in many
months, John Donnelly, the
theatrical manager, has had
1,arrow escape. He emerged
unScGthed from the automobile
wreck Whict took the lines OF
Bertha GdllGnd and her mother.
The other day, taking his first
auto ride since the fatal acct
dent, his car UaS run do,Dn By
q truck and completely de-
molished. Feature Writer Lee
Mortimer and Hazel NeUinS,
Paradise beauty, haze turned
on the flame.
Texas Guinan's remains will
be moved to new mausoleum
in Calvary cemetery, on the
crypt of which will be chiseled
her favorite lines from Wilde:
"And down the long and silent
street, the dawn, with silver
sandalled feet, crept like a
frightened girl" sheila ODono-
van Rosa, Boston blueblood
and leader of the women's Demo
cratic party there, has snubbed
Twentieth Century's 20 grand
offer for singing roles in their
productions.
Novelist Julia Peterkin slipped
into town quietly to attend the
funeral of her close friend,
Dorothy UIIman. The patriotic
pageant to be presented here
by the WOmen's National Re
publican Committee on Con-
StitutiOn Day was written by
Sculptures Suzanne Silvercruys,
Belgian born. She will also
assume the leading role. Mil
dred Davis Joins Harold Lloyd
here within the fOrtnite.
Despite their cautious state
ments to the press. the Mary
Pickford-Doug Fairbanks recon-
Citation is practically effected.
Aside from the romantic angle,
there is a sensible bushes side.
Miss Pickford has a substantial
interest in all Fairbanks pic
lures and both feel that the d.
vorce publicity would affect fan
loyalty. Bob Ripley writes from
Sidi F'allala, Tunis, inclosing a
snapshot of Berber belle slid
ing on a rock which Ripley
claims is endowed according to
the nativeS) with supernatural
properties-one good slide and
your married life will be blessed
with baSsinet tenants.
Musician-lnventor
Lawrence Cruikshank, Yale
student, Regime Crewe's stepson,
is in the hospital with Is stitches
in his leg as the result of a
freak accident. Incidentally,
Olive Jones, on the way to the
coast to start work for Warmers,
had her car wrecked in Pitts
burgh, narrowly escaping serious
injury. The John O'Haras Che
authored appointment in Sa-
mara") are moving toward a
reconciliation. The last chap
ter of the three-year court bat
tie involving an automobile de-
vice invented by Emery Deutsch,
the orchestra leader, and Eu-
gene Werner will be written off
when the case comes up October
in the United States Court of
Customs and Patent Appeals.
A million juicy berries are
said to be inUolUed. Helen Nor
CAMS stay in tolDn tDill be
limited to a 1Deek;; she 1Uill re.
turn to the coast to appear in
the VGllee picture. Maj Rein
hGrdt's chief mission in Holly
1Dood wiH be to lure the great
GretG into special pretentiouS
production. IrUing Hoffman
has a play in mind all about
critics: "Knite Begins at S:4O"
Lyricist Arthur SwanStrOm's
new heart.pain is the much too
pretty Alice Weaver. Gilbert
Miller, who devoted his pro-
ducing activities to the Eu-
rOpean field last season, will
concentrate on Broadway this
fall with four productions on
his list, one Of them starring
Herbert MarshalI (but not
Edna Best, as was his inten-
ton q season ago. The Jour.
nails Jack KOfOed is SEIZED
uled to produce a dozen or
more sports newSreelS for Co
lumia. One well-knOwn screen
comic somewhat fused be-
cause an unenthusiaStic recep-
ton at Point Pleasant ended
up by getting into q battle