The Washington times., 1936-03-07

WuS lLl1UI Ills LIE Va LLAC ACuOi
of a newspaper pal. villa r d
Cooper, who was editor of q Wor.
cester daily Cooper dead
its hard to believe 1. . Young,
husky, a brilliant and hard-work,
ing newspaperman, he was the
lad who kept urging me to quit
my Job as city editor of the New
london Day and try my luck in
New York Yet he never
would accept a New York offer
himself preferring to remain in
small towns .. Make RoSen
blooms romance with the soup
heiress, Mary Campbell, is at an
end Despite Eastern reports
that George Raft and Virginia
Pine have come to a parting Of
the ways, Raft and the gal keep
in constant touch with eac h
other by long-diStance and wire,
Only the other night, Raft in
sisted to this reporter that his
elopement with Virginia would
take place before June John
Wildberg arrived here yesterday
and hints the sale of "Russet
Mantle" will be completed soon
for q stiff figure He won $50
at the dice tahle-and spent it Is
minutes later telephoning his
bride. Ursula Parrott ).
1t was while Wendy Barrie
was dancing at the TrOcaderO
with Van Rensselaer, Smith
that word came of the murder
Tor suicide) of her father in
China Smith got the mes
sage and kept it from the girl,
taking her home without tell
ing her, only to find wires of
coincidence already there
Incidentally. Van Smiths cur
rent interest still remains ES-
teIle Taylor, back home
Jerry HOrwin takes us to a
meeting of the West Side AS
thma and Riding Club at the
BFOwn Derby club founded
five years go by ex-college
newspaper editors WI no h a d
made good in FINLAND. Now
IT'S membership includes Bert
Wheeler, Sid Silvers, Hugh Her
bert, Jimmy Glea son, Pat
OBrien, Ed Moran, Alan Riv-
kin, Robert Armstrong, Mel
Shaue' and others Gleason
and Moran contributed most of
the entertainment, chanting,
doubIe-talk ballads to Hugh
Herbert, who couldn't figure
them out
We visit the Warner lot and
stop for q short chat with Kay
Francis, who has just started work
on her picture, in the role of Flor
ence Nightingale For 10 min
utes we watch her acting, angel
icallY demure until Director VIM.
Dieterle shouts cut" and she
dashes off the set and lights up
o cigaret. 20 boy" she murmurs,
''thiS tastes good. I'm jittery."
Dieterle, by the way, is the Ger
man director who always wears
white gloves. He explained: Its
not q fad with me. They keep my
hands fresh and clean-that's the
only reason l wear them" AT
the Cosmopolitan Studio, Marion
Davies is posing with Dick Powell
IN Napoleonic costume for a series
Of stills. Miss Davies is nearing
the end of her assignment in
"Hearts Divided" and starts work
again In three weeks in Cain and
Mabel" adapted from short
story by the late H. G. WitWer.
George Stone joins us at the COM
misSary and urges us to try his
tailor. you're short, see - like
me. We're small guys. We gotta
have tailors who know their busi-
neSs-make us look bigger. It's an
art-you cut little here-you
puff the shoulders-like this, see
We'll. 1 tell you, it makes you
look two or three inches taller"
He looks at his watch. II gotta
go-1 gotta get bumped off this
afternoon-a prison break, see!"
AL JOlSOn, in fawn-colOred
coat. npauve pants, brown suede
shoes and gray hat, comes
along just as Joe E. Brown and
Director Lloyd Bacon Frank
BacOn'S SOM are in a pose
wi h your correspondent. :.
Brown plunges into a discus
sion Of Bobby Jones, his form
and his skill and his apparent
even temper "Never gets mad,
never. I've seen him dub shot
that would make me want to
break my clubs and kick my
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. he Just grins
and tries again. He told me
once, when asked him, that
he's gotten over getting mad
at anything that happens in
golf because the madder he
used to get, the worse he
played" AL JolsOn tries to
Wfest information from Pub
IIcity Director Ed Settler. con-
earning the sneak previeW he
has heard they were going to
hold on his newest picture,
"The Singin' Kid". LOok-It'S
my picture" he protests, "and
they keep 1t secret-E can't
even see my own picture
These "Sneak" previeWS are the