The Washington times., 1934-07-20

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parents.
AS I reported elsewhere Tues
day, Paul Leviton and Nina Pier
son merged in London. 1t was
Leviton who fell violently in love
with Peggy Hopkins Joyce almost
two years ago and courted her
frantically. Every other week,
they quarreled, and the million
aire playboy would fly to Hot
Springs or Florida or the Coast
or sail to Europe to forget only
to return and escort the orchida-
ceous gal around town again. On
the other hand, Nine Pierson and
Tommy Manville, jr., were linked
constantly before his fourth
marriage and even after. Every
time, Tommy and his bride quar-
relied, it was limited that the
asbestos heir would take the Pier
son girl as his fifth wife. Nor
would she deny it to her friends.
Leviton went to England to for
get Joyce again-and Nina went
to England to forget Manville, it
is presumed. There they met
and there they wed. If that isn't
the perfect short story, I don't
know one.
Deserving Team
Among our better teams is the
Blossom Seeley-Benny Fields COM
bination-man and wife in private
life. Talented pair, these two;
yet, like Block and Sully before
them, the breaks have been far
and few between. Finally, the
movies saw possibilities in Blossom
and she turned out a few excellent
characterizations on the Mae
West order. She was to have had
an important role in "Barbary
Coast'-a section in which she
was reared. Along came the de-
cency drive-"Barbary Coast" is
shelved, and temporarily there is
no demand for Blossoms type of
work. So they've returned to the
radio, appearing twice on the Val
lee hour and scheduled for an
other appearance. Broadway would
like to see them click-just as it
was happy when Eve Sully and
Jesse Block finally got their break.
Recently this department ex-
planned the derivation of the
names of various liquors. The
American Weekly Magazine comes
forward with the origin of the
cocktail, crediting it to Betsy
Flanagan, who kept a tavern near
New York in 1779. Her mixtures
used to be known as "Betsy's
Bracers." Near by was the estate
Of a Tory, unpopular in the neigh
borhood because of his loyaliSt
sympathies. Betsy, it appears,
used to filch a fowl from the Eng
lishman's poultry house to serve
whenever American officers were
on hand. The tail feathers of the
stolen birds she used to decorate
the bottles on her bar.
One night one of her uniformed
guests called for a glass of "those
cocktails" whereupon French
officer arose, raised one. of the
"bracers" and exclaimed, Long
life to the cocktail" That's the
American Weekly Magazines ver-
sion, but I seem to recall reading
at one time that as far back as
the Sixteenth century there was a
concoction in England known as
the "cocktail"-served in a bar
room known as Cocktails Inn
named after the proprietor, Broad
Phil Cocktail.
One of the higher film execs
wed a wealthy divorce and to
impress her, hired a luxurious
yacht for honeymoon cruise
passing it off as his own. AS
they sailed out, she, purred
sweetly-"This is lovely darling,
lovely. How long have you had
it?"
"Oh, I picked it up two years
ago." he boasted. costs me a
barrel of money to operate"
II know" she murm u red
Sweetly," up until three months
ago when I divorced him, this
yacht belonged to my first hus-
band"