The Washington times., 1934-06-29

In spite of her drastic milk farm
diets, Belle is no longer slim, but
her eyes are large and softly slum-
berous, and heart-rending sweet
and rich are the divine notes that
pour from that magic sound box.
Today I no longer pay to hear
her-I walk in on passes; but the
thrill is still there for me. Ora
cious, Observation-Disclosures maud
linly SO: moody, generous, self
plying, sympathetic-Belle is a
1ovable creature, who spoilS her
growing boy with too much kind
ness and occasionally bores you as
she discusses his cuteness; but
she's very much like most mothers
I know in this respect. (My
mother, to this very day, thinks I
am the cutest thing, and will show
you a curl once wore at the age
of 20
The Baker gal will invite you to
dinner whenever she meets you
finally YOU make the appointment
and on that very day she diScov-
ers she has to leave for Chicago
or Hoboken or the milk farm. So
you make another appointment
and another-and another-and
finally. comes the day when she
frantically telephones that this to
to be the great day-she is to cook
the dinner with her own hands
and none but she will serve it. So
you starve yourself and arrive at
7 o'clock Sharp-and at 1880 sharp
she leads you to the elevator
which carries you downstairs, and
there in the apartment hotel din.
ing room you are served a meal
right off the menu, cooked by the
chef and served by waiters-price,
SLIPS $50 cents extra for sirloin
steak).
But Belle beams and chatters
and addresses you in the most
touchingly endearing terms all
during the dinner, not emitting
mention of her growing boy, and
YOU grow fonder and fonder Of her
until you're almost ready to cry,
YOU get so soft and mushy. Then
she lures you back to her apart
ment where she sings your favorite
melodies-and you leave an emo
tional wreck-just a little sorry
you ate that strawberry short cake
downstairs.
Musician:
Like others I have always re-
Harded Paul Whiteman as some
thing Of a big boy but occasionally
I've seen and more often I have
heard of some Of his tempera-
mental streakS from which I con-
clude that when he's not big boy
he's q big man who used to be
even bigger before his Mar
Garet undetermined him into
diet and reducing. Whiteman, an
outstanding celebrity, is as pan
icky as anyone else in the presence
of other celebrities -particularly
those whom he hasn't met per
Sonally.
He would no more think OF
walking up to-well, let us say
Chaplin, provided he didn't know
Chaplin which he doeS-Stick out
his hand and Chirp, How are
you Charlie-I'm Paul-you know
Paul Whiteman"-he would no
more think of doing that than
I would think Of walking UP to
Greta Carlo and ask her to
swap shoes with me. Whiteman
is loved and respected by his
musicians and his singers and !
presume he is loyal to them, yet
every SO often he will get into
certain moods and do a little
sweeping out as a result Of which
you'll see a new set of singing
boys or singing girlS-and on ex'
tremely rare occasions, even q
new face in the orchestra itself
Lately, he has taken to bizarre
Bartorial effects - deeply hued
shirts, screaming ties, coats with
odd burrows and knots and but
tons. but not yet, for which I an
grateful, has he succumbed to
the lure of buttoned shoeS-noi
does he wear corsetS like one
prominent gentleman of Broad
day whom I know. Paul is gay
and he is melancholy-one MOOD
succeeding the other-but never
has he been quite so sad as he il
today and my heart goes out tc
the grand fellow for he has just
lost his mother. He loved hel
tenderly-and it was touching tx
see the Solicitude Of this big Eel
now as hA h0vered aro,1yo6 laa1