The Washington times., 1936-03-19

We run into pretty Patricia
Ellis, now completely recovered
from her attack of measles -.
As we sit on the steps with her,
posing for q still, she recalls
her days in Chamberlain
Browns stock company when
Hollywood and even Broadway
seemed a remote possibility -.
Now she's one of the younger
mainStays Of the Warner lot ...
Around the corner is a unique
trailer, bearing the legend along
its sides: "The Silver Cloud"
Property Of Rex Ingram, "De
Lawd" in "Green Pastures" who
leaves in it tomorrow for a tour
of the South We're invited
to enter within to inspect it -.
And find two husky rOtOgrav-
ureans shooting craps on the
table in front "JeS' chriSten-
in it fO' Rex" grins one Of the
sepes "Get hot, you travelin'
tramps-cOme th'u-ah-h"
The cubes quiet down to q 10
Incidentally amusing vaS
to watch Joe E. Browns stand
in Brown, coming off the
set, cocks his hat, reaches into
his pocket and digs out a slab
of gum on which he starts his
busy jaws Almost uncOn-
SciOuSly, the Stand-in cocks his
hat, reaches for gum and starts
chewing too. =.
Again we invade Junior Laem-
niles penthouse apartment. AL
in White-the whole thing looks
like an elaborate set and the
changing lights drive you a lit
tie screwy. But coolest thing
about the whole business is that
you take the elevator and go
down instead of up-then when
you reach the apartment and go
out on the terraces. you find
you're way up in the sky All
done without mirrors. In the
Famous Door, the other night, we
bumped into Comedian Sammy
Cohen in dolorouS mood. . He ad-
mits he has just parted with his
pretty bride, Doris Roach. AT
another table sits young Harris
BarriS and his wife, Loice White
man. .BarriS, who was the most
promising of Paul Whiteman'S
original rhythm boys when Bing
Crosby was just chap who could
sing Crosby now is on the top
of the heap-and Barris. with
abundance of talent, is still try.
ing to push the clouds away for
a glimpse of the promised sun =.
Jane Lee, who with her sister,
was the first of the precOciOuS
screen babies, is on the way out
here to get a divorce from her
husband Iris Adrian, who was
scheduled, after her divorce
from Charles Over, jr., to fly
back to New York to rejOin
Herman AmrOn. won't the
romance having ended -. She
started work yesterday in a
Laurel and Hardy comedy.
Florence Rice, Grantland'S dtr"
will desert the Columbia lots
after her current assignment
and return to the Broadway
stage for a brief spell Mack
Miller flew out here for g.
week holiday This first plane
fIight-and a stormy One) -.
Nat Moss Of the Hollywood Is
scheduled to arrive here at the
end of this wk. or early next wk.
If you linger here long enough
all Broadway comes knocking
at your door.
Every other yap you meet here
has a beard The pictures
they're making call for virile
bearded men :. Lionel Barrymore,
Gregory Ratoff, Julius Tannen,
Warner Baxter, Fredric March.
John Boles, wallace Beery, Guy
Kibbee-all have had to grow
boards and wear them around >. e.
Now added to the list are Clark
Gable and Spencer Tracy-and if
you can picture Gable and Tracy
in boards you have some idea what
the boys are going to have to suffer
in the weeks to come Over on
the Romeo and Juliet" set they've
gone jolly British - serving tea
every afternoon at 4-to| which
even visiting reporters are invited
-. Half the principals come from
England-Basil Rathbone, Leslie
Howard, Reginald Denny, Ralph
Forbes, c. Aubrey Smith, Conway
Tearle and Violet Kemble Cooper
.. Even Norma Shearer has be-
come a tea drinker, basing her
claims to British distinction on the
fact that she halls originally from
Canada Freddie Bartholomew
is back il town and starts work
Immediately in Captain Cour-
ageouS" :. The kid gets break
that should make him the envy Of
every youngSter in the country. E.
For from two to three weeks his
assignment will carry him off to
the high seas on the Gloucester
schooner Spinny.
In all seriousness, two of the
local writer's are collabing on a
scenario based upon the marital