The Washington times., 1936-04-30

Tammany Young didn't want
to die The last time we
saw him was several weeks ago
at the opening Of the girls base
bali season when we introduced
him to Mrs. VIII Rogers
He sat down to explain what
Hollywood had meant for him
1t had given him . new
grip on life He was doing
well-he had money in the bank
his wife and he liked the life
There was golf in the day
time-there were the fights
twice o week-there was money
coming in fairly regularly, more
than he needed to get by COM
fOrtably He had q car
''FOr q mugg like me-" he said,
''this is the last word. I'll live
to see . hundred out here-here,
look at that hand-yOu don't see
1t shake, do yOu?-Steady, amt
it?-KnOw how old 1 am? Near.
ly 50-pretty good huh?"
As q matter Of fact, Tammany
was q year or two over 5O-but
he didn't look it
Dick Watts was visibly shaken
by the death Of Hammond, with
whom he had been so closely as
ISOLATED "He could have lived
If he wanted to make the fight, Is
he said Watts pulled out of
town today-for China. jeanette
Macdonald enters with Jack
Bachman Bachman, once a
power at Paramount, recalls when
he had an option on the Mac
Donald girl for Paramount at
5000 a week but couldn't make
the studio see her as a possibility.
When Ernst LubitSch was
heading East, he urged him to
watch a performance Of the act
ress in Detroit Lubitsch wired
back-"Must have Macdonald
get her for me" Whereupon
Paramount signed her at a fig
ure close to $4,000 q week 3. .
The honeymooning Bert Taylor
and Olive Mcclure sit in a corner
table Pulling out tonight
for New York-thiS towns too
much for u.s." advises Taylor u.
Lillian Emerson in a wide picture
hat scans the room until she
spots William Frawley-and joins
him Margot Grahame in pass.
ing announces she win board the
Chief, Friday and head for New
York from where she will sail for
England-to rejoin her estranged
husband, is the report AL
kaufman sits with his former
wife, Rita-who just recently be-
came the bride Of Edmund Lowe.
JameS Cagney and Pat
OBrien come In together 1t the
Clover Club Sunday night
they had been among the hun.
dreds present at the dinner in
Victor Hugo's, where the exiled
Prince Zu L0ewenStein Is the
principal speaker He de-
scribes the oppressive condi-
tiOnS under the Nazi regime and
the pOgrOming against both
Jews and Catholics. Another
speaker is Donald Ogden Stew
art and among the guests as
sembled are Fredric March, AL
JOlson, Marc Connolly, Jack
Warner, Moss Hart, Irving Ber-
lin, Irving Thalberg, Merle Obe-
ron, Francine Larrimore and
Robert BenchIey. SheiIa Bar
rett is present at the Clover
CIub-just in from New York.
The Yacht Club boys having
finished their current Warner
Bros. assignment, head East
ward-Only Charlie Adler re-
maiIs!0s for another two weeks
Of this SO-called sunshine.
Father Will Whalen, of the old
Jesuit Mission. Orrtanna, Pa,
writes us a letter of mild rebuke
for censoring the language in his
play, 1.-THE Virgin Queens Daugh-
ter" produced last week at the Ben
Bard Theater here Nov about
my robustious language" he in
SiSts, you study the Elizabethan
period. I modernize all their glib.
berish You just study that
period and see if my strong talk
is one, two, three with the real
profanity they pulled then.
think you were weary and came
to my wee show to sleep and the
oathS pelted so profuse kept you
awake" :. A colorful figure, this
Jesuit priest who was once a
Shakespearean actor-and before
that a newspaperman - Eastern
feature writer's ought to get busy
on the fellow-he'S good copy
Mary Rogers. DIR. of the late come
dian, heads East shortly-to try a
whirl in stock at Skowhegan, Me.
.. Joe Lewis, now q fullfledged
contract player at 20 Century-Fox,
deserts his post as Sunday emcee
at the Trocadero next week to con-
centrate on his movie career
Another step In hectic career of
this amazing chap-who once was
left for dead by the hoodlums Of
Chicago-who later received the
personal apology Of the very chap
who cut him up Who for two
years was unable to articulate
.. Today, he's riding on the crest
Of the wave :.
Nat Ferber is rushing ahead
with his book for Farrar and
Notwithstanding his exper.
fences in 80 years as a news.
paperman $3.50 every newspaper
man of any prominence in that
time will be included in the
book 80. Fiery-thatched Nancy
relly opens In the Century