The Washington times., 1936-11-18
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
BY Louis SoboI
Snapshots at Random! !!

ny LOUIS SODOI
Snapshots at Random !
Sombre-eyed Fannie Hurst in
macabre-black habiliments a
Theda-Barish vamp type this eve
ning-attractS almost as much at
tention at the premiere of Black
Limelight" at the Mansfield as
the action on the stage. Maybe
more. Tuesday afternoon on
West SIND, near the Guild Thea
ter-a taxi driver holds up a
hand mirror while a Starry-eyed
blonde WieldS mascara brush al
most the size of a houSe-painter'S S
brush. Gus Gennerich, President
Roosevelt's bodyguard, was table
sitter at the Cotton Club Thurs
day night. . "A Stocky, beSpecta-
cled gent who some years ago was
a motorcycle cop here. And
only two tables away, a boyish
looking fellow, who was something
of q bodyguard, too. John Ham
ilton of the late lamented Repub-
ncan party.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rodney Boone
explain the athletic prOweSS of
Daniel Boone, aged 3, and Of
Rodney Boone, jr., aged 6 wkS.,
to Jack and Winnie Pearl at
the "21" Tuesday night. Prince
ROspigliOSi and his ex-bride,
Marion SnOwden, dined at La
Rue's Wednesday night, like a
couple of lovers, so absorbed
are they in each other. And
at the next table, the Gilbert
KahnS, who refuse to be parted.
Tommy Lyman, fingers drum
ming a nervous accompaniment
on the table, as he sits and softly
croons a dozen throbby ballads
theming the agonizing threnody Of
love, appears annoyed because
the swooning love-sick couple at
the next table are enrapt in each
other This is at the CheaSa-
peake House, Tuesday night, and
Tommy is further annoyed when
the unsuSceptible Joseph appears
with a steaming dish of chicken
liver delights How, means
Lyman, "can a man pour out his
soul in song with chicken ivers
on the tablet" The calm but
slightly caustic traffic cop at
Fifty-fifth and Fifth Monday after
noon chirps lightly to driver who
is blocking traffic by trying to
back into parking space: well,
make up your mind lady-you
doin' an old-fashioned waltz or
just truckin'?".
MiIly MOnti, hailed as the
Italian 'Iucienne Boyer" makes
her debut at the Rainbow Room
Wednesday night with such
eminent Italians present to
cheer her as Ken Murray, Rus
sell Patterson, Connie Boswell,
Bette Davis and young Mr.. and
Mrs. James Roosevelt
Gladys Crane surveying the
shapeIy dancing Andrews sisters
at the Glover Club, sighs: GIVE
never seen such beautiful legs.
Do men appreciate beautiful
legs, do you Think" ="
Dean Markham, alone and dis
consulate at Ell Morocco, later
that evening His romance
with Marjorie Logan blasted
John PerOna joins us
'LOOH," he excIaimS with Latin
excitement, "yOu ever see such
nice people, hah? Look that
woman. She's wearing easy
fifty thOusand-a hundred thou
sand dollars worth of jewelry.
It's wonderful" And shortly
after at the StOrk Club, Sher-
man Billingsley whispers
ever see a swell crowd like
this?-mOstly society. We're
getting the best people" And
half an hour later at "21"
Baron Jack Kriendler exclaimed
with justified exultatiOn
""YOu could get up a Who's Who
with the people we had here to-
night. 1 never seen anything
like it. The best people in
town."
Tuesday afternoon Playwright
Alvin Josephy BUSES Olivia de
Havilland fervently on the lips at
the Newark Airport as she hops
off for the coast-while the pilot
and a few mechanics stare in
obvious envy. Monday afternoon
Walter Huston, reading a news
paper as he walks, Strolls past
Ruth Chatterton at 50th st. and
Park Ave. without bothering to
look up as she halls "hello". ...
Thursday evening streamlined
Florence Rogge, ballet director at
the Radio City Music Hall, studies
a streamlined auto on display in
the Commodore lobby. Short,
white-haired DR.. Dafoe watches
with open-eyed amazement the
bedlam on the floor of the Stock
Exchange Thursday afternoon as
he is guided through the financial
maze by Broker w. F. Stafford. =.
"pd rather deliver batch Of
babies anytime" he pipes. LESS
strain on the nerves.. AT the I'm
perial Theater, where Leslie
Howards Hamlet" opens, Irving
Hoffman sneers to the orchidace-
Gus Lillian Emerson: "If Bacon
is turning over in his grave to-
night, then know for a fact he
wrote this" "If Joe Miller is
turning over in his grave tonight"
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