The Washington times., 1934-02-08


crime Edwina Gibbs she was ed.
ucated at Notre Dame Academy in
Roxbury, Mass, and while stu
dent there met young CASTOR.
The courtship was carried on at
the home of her aunt, Mrs. George
Cramer. of Beacon Hill, while her
intended was student at Har-
ward.
The CASTOR marriage gave her
the right to speak to the Cabots,
the Lodges and the SaltonstallS.
In fact, she could have presented
her card and been admitted to
the presence of the Higginsons
and others of the Mayflower lin
cage. Not to mention the ultra
Back Bay.
The GaStons were divorced. Kay
Francis married Dwight Francis,
son of a Pittsfield (MaSs0 wool
manufacturer, and took his name
for stage purposes. Another dl-
vorce and then she married Ken
meth McKenna (real name Mel
ziner), from whom she was re-
Gently divorced.
The best woman box office
name on the Warner Bros pay
roll her chief fight is to get light
society roles in which shows to
the best advantage. Tomorrow
you can see her on the Earle
screen in "Mandalay." All this
history because page one seems to
have just discovered that Kay
Francis was once a genuine Gas
ton.
incidentally "Mandalay" was
the picture Ruth Chatterton re-
fused to make because she was
tired Of playing sin-sodden sisters.
Uric Is Coming
Penciled in for the Fox Theater
stage the week of March 9 is
Lenore Uric.
The glamorous star Of such
Belasco hits as "Kiki," Lulu
Belle" and '"Tiger Rose" will
appear in two dramatic sketches.
They are Despair with words
and music by AL Siegel and Sup
per Time"
This Supper Time" is a mourn
full lyric from "As Thousands
Cheer" and is sung in that ace
revue by Ethel Waters. Through
the special permission of Producer
Sam Harris the song will be
offered by Lenore Uric to vaude-
vile audiences.
Miss Uric recently returned
from the Coast after Radio
pictures had signed her and paid
$25,000 only to discover she was
mot the type" Earlier this
season she appeared at the Ma
tional Theater In the i'll fated
Man Of Wax"
Stork at Payettes
It's boy at the John J. Pay
cites. Born at 10 a. m. today
at Garfield Hospital. Mother and
son doing nicely. The Warner
Brothers zone manager is smil-
ing. passing out the cigars and
making place on his office wall
for the new stars picture. This
makes three all-star Payette pro-
ductions, Dolores, S, John j. jr.,
8, and the newcomer, who may
he named after his grandfather,
Harry Crandall.
MIR. Grouse Arrives
Russell Grouse arrived in town
yesterday. He blows the big bas-
soon for the New York Theater
Guild publicity offices and writes
plays in his spare moments.
Among his plays (as co-authoD {,
Gentlemen of the Press" and Joe
Cooks musical, Hold Your
Horses" He has also written a
couple Of Hollywood stories which
have appeared on the screen but
does not boast Of these as among
his accomplishments.
Author Grouse is here to sing Of
They Shall Not Die" the John
Wexley play which comes to the
National Theater February 10. He
calls it the most important pro-
duction of the Guild season and
has all the testimony in the IA
nous Scottsboro case to back UP
what he will say about it.
Why Katharine
Proofreaders all over the coun.
try continue to spell Katharine
Cornell's name with two "e's" in
the surname. It doesn't make
any difference how many times
editors spell Katharine with the
emphasis on the "a's," it still
creeps into type with the "a
vorite spelling. Same thing goes
goes for Katharine Hepburn's
first name.
To make the proofroom happy.
Ray Henderson, Miss Cornell's
alert press agent. quotes Charlie
Collins, of the Chicago Tribune,
as follows:
"The second "a in Miss COrnell's
spelling Of her first name has
tempted a few experts on feminine
nomenclature to accuse her of af-
fectatiOn. 1t happens, however,
that they are wrong and she is
right, in spite of the fact that the
common English spelling is Kath-
! crime or Catherine.
Miss Cornell, as a Katharine, is
on sOunder ground than any Of