The Washington times., 1936-10-17
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
Broadway Potpourri!
By Louis SoboI

spouse, Fred Francis, will make
it a permanent parting by law
early next month Hollywood
hears-and report Shat Oh.
Chaplin and P. Goddard have
titled The Jules EpSteinS
Che's the author of And stars
Remain"-she's Frances Sage, R.
K. o. starling) will join the
pram puShers To help re-
coup the family fortune, Mrs.
Jesse Lasky is opening an art
shop on Wiltshire Blvd, where she
herself, will paint portraits .
The James Campbells (he's the
famed British song publisher
she's Betty Balfour, English &C.
tresS) are readying the basSinet
and celebrating here in ad-
vance Elaine Barrie, j.
Barrymore'S ex-Ariel has now be-
come Songwriter Abner Silver's
Oriole.
Con Conrad sitting in the
TrOcaderO some months ago
spotted a pretty girl whose
face seemed familiar. Funny"
he murmured to his wife, "but
I can swear l know her. She
nodded to me. Did you notice?
Let's See-where did 1 meet
herr" He was wrenched
from his fog by the icy tones
of his bride who snapped, II
can tell you. That's Francine
LarrimOre-she was once your
wife, don't you remember"
There is probably no saloon
quite as redolent of the Mauve De-
cade as the bizarre cafe known as
Bill Hardy's Gay Nineties-the
ancient prints, meller-drama four
sheets, muSty old photographs,
silver dollars studded into the
floor, ceiling lamps of civil war
vintage, two gilded atrocities torn
from Barnum & Bailey wagon
bot by Henry Ford-these are only
a few of the colorful decorations.
The entertainment is continuous
and reminiscent of old Coney
Island saloon days, but the pleas
antly lncongruous note is fur
nlShed by a talented operate
canary who has often sung with
operate companieS-Lea Barberi-
and, believe it or not, by a new ad-
dltlon, a tenor who until very re-
Gently was an ace soloist at St.
Patrick'S Cathedral-Jack Early!
Not only is Mrs. Donald Ogden
Stewart in the hOSpital-but her
sister, Mrs. p. S. Carr, too-the
latter awaiting an heir MiIt
Gross and Oh. Sherman, who
sold play to Daryl Zanuck,
are now icing each other .
report that Dorothy Cullman,
II. Richman'S former expIOiter.
will succeed Mack MiIIar at the
Hollywood - Millar gradually
dropping most Of his night club
accounts to take care of his in
creaSing commercial clients
Arthur Murray has bought an
apartment house in Mt. Vernon.
planking down S17O, 900 in cash
and some people think dancing
a waste of time! . Joe ZeIii
takes over the old Park Avenue
CIuD and will try his luck again
incidentally, Joe Moss new
cabaret will be tagged Inter.
national Casino" and will have a
revolving dance floor Author
Dashiel Hammett has Just
bought an estate in Princeton.
N. j.
Broadway observations: People
VINO live in penthouses shouldn't
drop stones. . "A movie original is
an adaptation of story that
wasn't purchased. (Joe RicardeD ::
Premier Blum?. oh, yeah. the
man who broke the franc at
Monte Carlo".. (Stanley Evans)
"A Russian girl friend of mine
just got here and now she's in
burlesque. from Minsk to Min.
sky" (Enoch Light: He uses
his head-to keep his ears apart
-. Heo Reisman): He left him
self as wide open as yawn.
One of the columnar tribe Wis
tied an Indifferent mystery
Shocker a couple of performances
ago. He was stopped by the pro-
Queer after the show.
"Well," was the breathIess
query, did you hold your
BREATH"
"NO," yawned the columnist,
my nOse!"
Broadway hears that all Eugene
O'Neill plays have been withdrawn
from the market because O'Neill
plans to finance revivalS of sew
eral of his more successful plays
and hasn't decided which ones he
will do "A new monthly mag, The
Big Town, hits the stands October
27-among it's contributors will be
both Farley and Hamilton and a
piece on public banqueting by
Harry Hershfield. aside to Al
fred Mccain, jr): 1t was typo
it should have read: you are to
wed Dora Gallagher in january
Maria Gombarelli (Gamby) is
the producer and director of the
floor shows which open at the
Pierre tonight and the Ritz Octo-