The Washington times., 1936-12-21
THE VOICE OF
Broad way
BY Louis SObOl-
Casual Comment!

CdpGu1C VI OCoPS4o0O AAu~1
weary the general public which
wants its thugs nabbed and
jailed and doesn't care whether
it's a Oman, city sleuth,
uniformed gendarme--or a gar
bage collector. 1t was good
work-no matter where the credit
falls. For the first time, royalty
was elevated to par with other
entertainers when Variety re
viewed Edwards farewell address
along with other new radio pro
grams. Prince Edwards seven
minutes on the air was a dra
matte SOCK" opineS the re
viewer. incidentally, one enter
prising press agent recorded and
is sending discs as Xmas geS
lures. You might say, mightn't
you, that the current headlines
have advanced from King to
Nanking!. A round of applause
for the new traffic code which
prohibits right-hand turns on
red lights. Take it from one
who has developed bats in the
belfry from waiting at the cor
ner Of 47th and Broadway try
ing to cross.
A giggle which I hope Greta
Palmer will forgive is the cap
tiOn under one of the cuts dec
Grating her piece, "The Long
Road to Glamour" in last
weeks New York Woman"
The picture reveals a group
of buxOm fancieS and the cap
ton informs you: "A bevy of
beauties of the gay old days
when ideals of feminine curves
more closely Appropriated the
measurements of the Venus de
Milo. Two of the beauties"
shown are Mr.. Julian Eltinge
and Mr.. Jimmy Slavin, fe-
male impersOnatOrs. Exhibit
A at Mt. Sinai for 1886 in a
piece to appear in the medical
journals will be Joseph Mick
Ter, Journal rewrite man >.
Mickler is the only patient Mt.
Sinai ever had to pull out
from a pylephlebitiS rap.
PylO, as it is playfully called,
is what happens to little boys
who don't have their appendix
yanked out in time. 1t makes
peritOnitiS look like a sissy.
Benjamin DE CaSSereS writes
to remind me that Don Mar
quis is still gravely i'll and
suggests that his many friends
and admirers and former read
erS when he was among the
ace cOlumniStS of Manhattan)
might send him a word of
Christmas cheer-addreSs 81
WendOver Road, Forest Hills,
L. L. The toubIe with
Broadway is it h"1 too few who
are great--and too many who
are ingrates!
Why don't they bill him as
Gypsy Nose Durante? Barney
Rapp, the orchestra leader, some
years ago picked a little girl
named Ruby Wright out of sew
eral applicants to sing with his
band Every few months she
asked him for a raise She
got it Barney. in turn, never
asked a favor OF her until the
other day She said "yes"
Ruby Wright becomes Mrs. Bar
ney Rapp on January Is .
Patricia Wilder, the cinema dar-
ling who upon coming East an
nounced that she and Newspaper
man Robin Harris had decided to
call their marriage off, is back on
the Coast-and with Hubby Harris
who is now a Daryl zanuck slave
Longest lived friendship on
Broadway exists between Come
dians Fred Allen and Benny Rubin
They met 27 years ago when
both broke in on an amateur night
in Boston and were booed
A great love developed from that
The Paradise's widely dis
cussed Esquire" number for which
they had been offered as high
as $500, has been pirated, Nicky
Blair will be pleased to learn, by
a Chicago night club The
trouble with the average New
Years resolutions, insists Ken
Englund, is they go in one year
and out the other!
The Nelson Rockefeller heir
is expected late in January .
Inspection of a rehearsal of the
new French Casino show leads
to advance applause for what
should be the best show the
theater cabaret has presented,
but what we started to say was
that the real sensation will be
a black dog who does amazingly
human tricks. Judy Williams,
Mrs. F. D. ROOSevelt'S widely
pubIiciZed prOtege, becomes Mrs.
Steve Clark early next year, and
Lee Mortimer, just unlinked
from Patricia Whitney, an
nOunces he'll wed Mary Ellen
Brown in March COinci-
dence: Simpsons is only a few
doors away from the Windsor
Hotel on the BOwery A 9Th
Ave. shOeman has invented
stocking intended for Christmas
Only-it'S made of asbestos and
planned for fireplaces.
Baron Hubert Pantz, famed Aus,
trian, who arrived here on the
Queen Mary, has confided that
Prince Edward leaves shortly to
spend a month or more at the
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