The Washington times., 1936-02-21


Steinberg, so long identified v
We drift to the Glover Club,
and here Bert Lytell leaps from
his table. "MigOd," he shouts.
''Nigod, someone from back
hOme-tell me all about it,.
which is a snicker. for all about
him are ''frOm back home" folks
..."T hear they've got snow back
in New YOrk-lOts Of snow.
huh?" "but lots" we tell him
gosh, the way I feel 1 could
just wade through that snow,
wallOw in it, just to get peek at
Broadway" means Lytell. .Di-
rector Seymour Felix sOlemnly
gives assurance that after all
these years "The Great Zieg-
field" will certainly and positively
be complete within three weeks
E. which brings to mind the lit
tie yarn they tell about MIN. NC
Guire, who has been working on
the Ziegfeld pic, too, for several
years. elf nothing else" Nc
Guire is said to have sighed,
''tl1is picture has brought about
q lifelong friendship between
me and Seymour Felix. Patsy
Kelly wanders about from one
room to another in the Clover
Club, stops . minute to talk to
Wilma Cox, and moves on with
an air of being distraught. =.
Joseph Schenck listens atten-
lively as Dorothy LamOur tOnce
Miss New Orleans) chants
"Alone". Chico Marx, Harry
Jams, SOngwriter Walter Donald
son, Mary Lou Dix are others
who violate the ballyhOOed Holly
wood tradition by being up long
after midnight.
We move toward the Club
Clements, for here we learn Mar.
tina Raye, longtime favorite OF
ours, has Just opened. and it's
true, but the little firebrand Is
much subdued and we learn later,
speaking to her, that only a few
hours previously had she learned
Of the horrible accident in New
York which snuffed out the lives
of her grandparents AT the
Brown Derby, where most Of the
talk centers about the fight that
night, two palookaS whose names
even escape me, but they make
quite a fuss in Hollywood about
these mediocre fights and go posi-.
lively looney over wrestling. Fred
Keating drifts over thinner and
apparently very unhappy. gotta
get back to New York" he walls
."you don't know what it means
to be away-two years-more than
that. I gotta get back" "bliz-
zard back there" murmur. 1.-TWO,
three, maybe six below zero. Look
warm here-just little sprinkle
of rain-but no overcoatS-no
nothing. {. but Keating is home
sick. George Raft pops in for a
few seconds. .Hoot Gibson fingers
at the cigar counter, plucking at
his teeth with a filched toothpick
=. Mickey Neilan is barstander,
relaying a stroy to Jimmy Starr
Harpo Marx settles down in the
booth-"box" they call it here
and starts talking to Moss Hart
:. Oater-I hear the referee
stopped the fight in the fifth round
and called it draw!!D
They're telling out here Of
the party several nights ago
whe.l Jock Whitney persisted in
cutting in on Alfred G. Wander
bilt every time he started to
dance with a pretty girl. this
annoyed the yOungster who
finally blurted out q petulant
protest "nOw, nOw,' Whitney
is supposed to have sOOthed as
he started to dance off with the
girl, "yOu've still got Dis
cOvery"..
The races at Santa Anita are q
lure and AL Jolson has three hot
tips for a newcomer from New
York. but none comes in, and
later Jolson confesses he hasn't
done so well this day, but, he adds
brightly, II gotta run away after
the fifth race-1 broadcast TO-
night, y'know-that'S when I'll
break even". as he leaves, he
tells me that Ruby Keeler hasn't
been feeling so clipper and has
departed for Phoenix, Ariz.. to
rest up. in the box next to ours,
Henry Fonda sits with his ex-
bride, Margaret SULLIVAN and they
pool wagers. .Mervyn Leroy
whispers he has some hot ones"
in the fifth and the sixth-but he
doesn't look too happy and I pre-
sumo the hot ones cooled.
Hollywood takes its racing Seri-
ously and certainly more money
Is wagered here daily than on any
two tracks elsewhere. Johnny
Walker, in q brown ensemble to
match the muddy turf, stops long
enough between penciling out his
choices to introduce me to two
more Manhattan exiles - the
Steve Rudyspere and Fill.
paunchy Guy Kibbee wanders
back and forth, slightly absent
minded, from the IS windows.