The Washington times., 1936-06-30

Columbroadcasting, sails shortly
for six weeks abroad, in the hope
Of dousing his torch for Ann st,
George. But the st. George gal
will be there, too, with her nanny
and pappy. VIM. Powell Is at
Arrowhead, Hot Springs, trying to
berl out Hollywood's worst case OF
sciatica jeanette Macdonald,
never famed for being too gener.
Gus with her money, has gifted
blond Gene Raymond with a huge
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ring.
The Allan JOnes-Irene Hervey
blend will be effected next month
when the current Mrs. Allan
Jones gains her final release via
Reno. The JOneS-Hervey elOpe-
ment is scheduled for Yuma a
day after the divorce. Carlyle
Blackwell, encOuntering us in
Twenty-One, insisted he was un.
aware that AvOnne Taylor had
divorced him until he read our
story. 81 know she didn't like
the way I ate my grapes" he
said, ''but at least she could have
called me up and told me we
weren't man and wife any more"
=. Blackwell, once q screen idol
in the silent days, later the huS-
band of one of the worlds
wealthiest women, is currently
publishing a quarterly devoted
TO outstanding show horses.
The parted Ernest Truexes are
reunited in England, all Difficult
ties having been smoothed E. She
(the former Mary Jane BarretO
returns here to pick up her baby
and the TruexeS will then settle
down in London for long stay
John Curry'S son at Prince
ton bot himself a python as a
pet and tried to persuade the col
lege authorities to let him keep II
in room His roommate put
I'D the loudest squawk and the
python is quartered separately E
Vincent Curran, felled by 1nfan-
tile paralysis, almost 2 yrs. ago,
is slowly recovering the use OF his
limbs Norway is now halllng
Mathea Merryfield as a second
Carlo with a shapeher torso .
The sad truth is eve hate TO re-
peat, we admire the fellow 500
that w, C. Fields will never make
another picture Mary Bran
insists to intimates she will not
wed Cary Grant-until, or unless,
she is certain her film career IS
ended.
Able sons Of their fathers are
three ambitious and popular
young men of Broadway: When
Slime Silverman died, they said
Variety would founder now that
its chief personality was gone'
but Sid Silverman has taken
hold with the result that the
theatrical weekly is now in IT'S
most fIOurishing financial cOndl.
ton There was shaking OF
the wise heads when genial Billy
LaHiff passed away, but young
Billy, wrested from his school
books, stepped in and the Tav'
ern not only lures its old patrons
but has won a flock Of new
heavy.eaters and no one feels
sorry for the popular yOungSter
now as the profits roll in -.
Most famed of booking agencies,
the william Morris organization
seemed doomed when its chief,
william Morris, died-but since
his death, under the guidance OF
william Morris, Jr., the buSl-
ness has expanded until 1t is
now the most powerful in the
East and beginning to steal some
of the play away from the for
midabIe agencies on the Coast.
Betty Lawford is back in town
after fulfilling her screen assign
ments on the Coast and is dividing
her time between Ham Fisher and
Buddy Adler, two Of the towns
more susceptible swans. Peggy
Joyce, squirrel these nights by c.
Pearson, signs that Broadway is
dull and plans to leave for Europe
July 16. Following her Sensa-
tional guest appearance at the
Trocadero in Hollywood, Sunday
night, Gertrude NieSen who went
to the Coast for a brief rest, IS
now flooded with cinema offers. :.
For your delight and mine: the
thrilling throating of who" by
the sauve sepians, Johnny and
George at the Yacht Club. Tom
my Guinan here for brief breath
ing spell sails for London. Helen
Cakes. former Paradise eyeful
(and chief support of half dozen
younger sisters), is back in town
with arms decorated by diamond
bands-gifts from her Brazilian
swain.
The impreSSi0nable Lee Nor
timer, whose second merger
with Patricia whitney, is now
being annulled, will take as his
third bride, Ruth Ambrose.
Try Hoffman relays the case of
the blonde at Ell Morocco who
was being annoyed by an amor
Gus playbOy neighbOr 81 have
an aversion for men with black
eyes," she snapped Honey"
he purred, my eyes are gray
not black" "Mebbe," she re-
tOrted, "but wait It'll my hus-
band gets here!" Wendy Bar
rie wired that her trip here =.
(She had planned to arrive sew