The Washington times., 1936-06-25
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
.BYLOuiS SObOI-

the pastures reserved for the
sports pages, but vaguely, after
the upset of Friday night, memo
rieS came back of a statement
by Jimmy Johnston printed in
this department. last year. "A
peek into the files dug it up. ID.
Date, September 27-and here is
what Jimmy had to say:
Don't think that it's be-
cause Joe Louis is such a great
fighter that Bae.' lost. Nav!
Baer is just a guy who can't
take it Now this fellow Louis
-sure-great fighter-but he
isn't the fighter Jack Johnson
waS-he never will be. Nor
Sam Langford-nOr Joe Wal
colt. JOhnsOn?-Say, there was
the greatest fighter that ever
Hved-the greatest. This Louis
is all right-but he won't be
champion. Not after the next
fight. Yeah, knOw-heu meet
BraddOck. That IS, 1 guess he'll
meet BraddOck. And it'll be
another milliOn-dOllar gate
don't kid yourself that it won't.
You know what's going to hap
pen?-Remember, nobody ever
accused me of talking through
my hat. I've been in this busi-
ness long enough to know. I'll
tell you what's going to happen
and you paste it up-and
then come around after the
fight. BraddOck is just going
to keep sticking out that paw
and Louis isn't going to get
anywhere near him. BraddOck
is going to be the first heavy
weight champion since Gene
Tunney to retain his title after
his second fight. And now
just hold your breath a minute
Pm telling you that Brad
dock is going to knock Louis
cold. And amt crazy"
That was back in September OF
1885, but it was SChmeling who
fulfilled the Johnston prophecy
-Moxie, who was considered out
of the picture entirely.
Prophetic perhaps is the or
der issued by the publisher of
a leading morning Republican
newspaper here to have his two
yachts put into Seashape. Each
year he has told Harry NevinS,
owner of the NevinS EOatyard
in City Island, that he will
never launch either one of his
two boats while there is a
Democrat in the White House.
The craft have been drydOcked,.
accordingly, since Hoover va
Gated.
At the Hollywood a handsome
gal, talented in many respects but
certainly not as a singer, turned
sweetly to inform our table she
was opening a small night club in
which she hoped to be the singing
star. "As soon as we can think
up a good name for the club" she
said, well get going"
"Why not" offered one of us,
"call it Table for One'?"
John p. Medbury offers the
case of a fellow who claimed to
be a song writer and went out
to Twentieth Century-Fox last
week to play over a song for
Buddy De Sylvia "You won't
believe it," he purred, "but 1 can
write song like this in an hour
and think nothing of it" .T
agree with yOu," answered De
Sylvia, 81 don't think much of it
myself"
Speaking of songs, I've forgot
ten the name OF the tune thai
Charles G. Dawes wrote, but there
have been others in various fields
who have turned to tune-fash
ioning or lyric writing as a hobby
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote
lyrics for the Princeton Triangle
shows Theodore Dresser au
thored Banks of the Wabash
Hendrix Willem Van Loon
has half a dozen concerts to his
credit Paul Warburg has
turned out a number of song hits
in collaboration with Kay Smith
Franklin P. Adams and o
Henry were the joint authors of a
musical tidbit entitled "Lo"
Otto Kruger composed The Jap
anese Symphony" and conducted
it's presentation IN Manhattan
The current King of England
wrote the "Mallorca March" while
he was Prince of Wales I read
an item recently to the effect that
Ginger Rogers has written song
DR.. Erdman Harris, head pro.
fessor of psychology at the Union
Theological Seminary, is an &C,
complished composer Will
Hays, cinema tycoon. will admit,
if pressed, that he wrote Gene
We've" back in 1921 Lou Davis,
wholesale meat packer, has writ
ten a dozen popular song hits.
P. 81 remember now-"Mel-
ody in A Minor" is the label of
tho Dawes t1ne