The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-20

OF the late VIII Rogers
To our immediate right sat
Myrna 10y with Arthur Horn
blower, fragile Loretta Young
with Eddie Sutherland, Alice
Faye with Vic Oscatti. The
10y gal wept little during the
scene in which Luise Rainier las
Anna Heidi phones CCUgratuAa-
tons to Ziegfeld on his marriage
to Billie Burke (Myrna LOy) -.
virginia Bruce, sitting . row In
front Of Is, seemed ready to hiss
with the rest Of Us a. she saw
herself in the part Of the Tightly.
drunken Aubrey Dane. Gltm'
mering personalities from the
mob vievpOint) who sat In the
choice seats inc led Ross Alex
ander with EOsalind Russell,
Marion Davies, Iris Adrian. Jean
cite MacDO7 - 18th Gene Ray
mond, Francine LarrimOre with
Irving Caesar, Tamara with b. ].
Schulberg, Norma Shearer with
Irving Thalberg, the Leslie How
ards, the Daryl Zanucks, Louis
b. Mayer, the Seymour FeExess
VIM. Anthony Mcclure, Una
Merkle, Ouida Bergere and her
groom, Basil RathbOne, Clifton
webb and his mama, May Rob
SON, Mary Carlisle, Anita Lees
Irene unn, the MAX G"rdOns,
the Robert MOntgOmerys. Loud
speakers blared, binding lights
hIazed, and Orches.-aS played
melodies from former Ziegfeld
shows. The crowds Of curious
jammed every pas 'geway. AN
exciting scene. An appropriate
setting for what Hollywood Is
willing to acknowledge is the
most impreSSively beautiful and
telling musical story ever turned
out BY its camera.
The gayety continued all over
town after the opening Into the
Trocadero poured most OF the
people already mentioned above
Others piled into the Clover
Climb. Frank Morgan and his
party got away from it all and
drifted over to the Casanova,
where we found them at 4 in the
morning. still unwilling to go
home, 1T was a carnival night
which gives you an idea Of how
these people go to town on the
slightest excuse. ON this occa-
sion, the first genuinely big open
ing since the days years ago when
Hollywood premiereS were always
an excuse for q gathering OF the
over.dreSsed clans.
Incidentally, earlier in the eve
ming sat in a corner at the
Trocadero. observing some OF the
early dinerS-and their, eating
habits :. For instance, Norma
Shearer chews from side Of the
mouth to side-with just a slight
slanting twist of the jaws to the
left. Irving Thalberg is practical
ly q perpendicular maSticator-up
and down with a great deal smack
ing of the lips. Leslie Towards
fingers curve daintily, but he eats
man fashion. almost wolfing his
food Irving Berlin used every
Jaw muscle-his cheeks bulge, the
upper lip curves. the lower jaw
grinds in a rotary fashion. .Lor-
eta Young also curves fingers
daintilv and her lips are closed
tight while her jaws move almost
imperceptibly.
Coming out Of the TrOcaderO
after the ZiegfeId premiere I en-
counter Max Reinhardt.
'What did you think Of it," we
asked. Europe" he pro-
nOunced SOIemnIy, "can no longer
stick out her tongue at the Amer
icans-that was zeal art" :.
Others that we had missed at
the Cathay Theater we found ct
the night club. Barbara STAN
WICK with Robert Taylor, Lillian
Emerson with Bill Frawley, Leo
GARLIC, Norman Krasna with
Ann SOthern land no sign Of
Roger Pryor., Alan Jones with
Irene Hervey, Ed Granger with
Mary Rogers.
You move from table to table,
Joining this group or that, and you
discover that nowhere In this wide
world Is there so much shop talk
as takes place among these alleg-
eddy glamorouS folk. In New
York, the conversation will switch
from a best seller to q prfzefight,
from startling murder to dis
cussion of q Pulitzer Prize play.
You get nothing as varied here.
Studio talk dinS into your ears
only occasionally is there q vari-
alton -an interlude Of panning
someone in the limelight. AS a
result, some Of these lovely film
gals are complete boreS to the
average Broadwayite acting as es-
cort for the evening and expecting
O night Of thrills.
Miss Anne Mitchell, the
Greenwich heireSs, tossed .
party ut the VendOme for the
DR.. B. HertzeS Of Chicago (she's
the DIR. of the late Julius
ROSenwald) on the eve Of their
departure for Japan The gal
was frantic at noon hour when
one Of her guests found him