The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-08

assure you.
re he devOtes his five pages
D Hollywood It will have to be
rehash Of what he has already
written. ..@.''''''.'.'''''...
II he devOtes himself to
broadway he will be writing
Shout o street with which. he
las lost contact; running the
hanger Of repeating what has
already been reported by his
contemporaries who remained
n the home camping grounds
khile he went a-roaming.
Ie could, of course, get on the
telephone and implore his rivals
I'd help him out with a few para
graphs, but he has a vague sus-
pEion there is nothing to be hoped
fdr from that source. AS one Of
them has already taken the pains
I'd assure you, quoting, as. his
habit, someone else, the only re-
ACTION to this reporters homecom-
ing was a sneering $50 what?"
Which, my beloved and devoted
readers, seems to be the attitude
Of not only your reporters con-
fieres-but also Of the town in
general.
'That, Of course, is not quite
accurate. The press agents,
Bless them, have extended q
Welcome home. There are wires
from them. There are letters
rom them. The wires contain
kagS-the letters also contain
gags. With all due mOdesty,
the press agents sacrifice an Op-
pOrtunity for cOlumnar gIOrifi-
cation, insisting instead that
they will not object If the quipS
Gre credited to certain person.
ages, important or otherwise,
Who retain their publicizing ser
Sicess
Thus we are asked to assure you
that Arthur Murray hears they're
thinking of remaking Janet Gay
nar'S last film with Kate Smith as
mall Ton Girl" :. Somebody
n$med Lee Myles means that the
income tax is just a pay in the
neck. Trudy de Ring describes a
phoney as some one who'd like
I'd own the world but merely owes
itg. Wen. that gives you a faint
idea Of the reception accorded a
hbmecomer by his devoted con-
tihgent Of press agents. For
other samples like above, if you
like them, consult any rival col
uAn1 in town-any day-even to-
day.
SHORTY after we complete this
column we will start on what for
want of a better expression is
known as making the rounds"
That will include a visit to as
many so-called night spots as we
can manage within the prescribed
SPACE Of time.
1t was much simpler I'm Holly
wood.
For dinner, you went either to
The Vine Street Brown Derby,
Che Beverly Hills Brown Derby,
al Levy's. Lamaze's PerrOni'S or
Lucey's. For lunch you invaded
khe Vendome or Sardi'S. Your
midnight tour encOmpassed the
ErOcaderO, the Glover Club, the
Casanova, the Seven Seas and
8he Century. There was always
cOpy-since copy from column
SaistiC standards means any
place that has names present.
There were always names pres
emit at the above mentioned.
That will not always be true
@ the clubs in this town.
The shows at the Paradise,
Hollywood and French Casino are
always interesting, even exciting
nut there are many nights when
lot q so-called name" is among
he patrons. You have better
rlck at the smaller placeS-the
Stork, Twenty One, Versailles, and
d. Morocco-but never Of any
Eime do you have such a gather
ing Of glamorous Qet us be quite
honest-synthetically glamorous)
personalities as you do at any one
Of the Hollywood places men,
tioned.
Thus, going through my files,
II notice that one nights assem-
bly, at the TrOcaderO included
Marlene Dietrich, Amelia Ear
hart, Alice Faye, Sylvia Sidney,
Eleanor Holm, Frances Lang
ford, Ernst Lubitsch, Louis B.
Mayer, Tom Brown, Joan Craw-
ford and FranchOt Tone, Cliff
ford Odets, and Sigmund Rom
berg. "A Brown Derby night
presented Al JOIsOn, Ruby Kee-
Ter, "Man Mountain" Dean, Joe
Penner, George Burns and
Oracle Allen, George Raft,
Nancy Carroll, Cy Bartlett,
Frank McHugh.
But then earlier In this column
I'VE told you we had shaken Holly
wood out of our systematic above
therefore, is the repetition agains
(which we warned you. But tn
ArSnint is. preSent-day BroadWa,