The Washington times., 1936-12-05
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
BY Louis SoboI
PrattIe and TattIe!

PrattIe and TattIe!
Before her departure, the for.
mer Queen of Spain had a bitter
quarrel with her son, the Count
of Covadonga because of his re.
fuSal to go back to Europe with
her and his insistence that he
will wed Marta Rocafort. The
count and his sister. Princess
Torlonia, no longer speak to each
other (they were seated only
two tables away at Ell Morocco
Tuesday night) so the affable
blond ex-crown prince has con
fided to intimates that he knows
how to get even with her. He
will wed Marta and will sail for
England to participate in the
coronation festivities where, in
the major procession, his place
will be directly behind his father,
Alfonso, while his sisters carriage
will have to be many PAGES to
the rear. @ hum!. Incident
ally, since the tranSfusionS, Cova-
donga has gained 20 pounds, and
now insists he hasn't a single
drop Of Spanish blood in his
veins I'm mostly Irish now, -
he says, because all the blood
they poured into me was from big
husky 1riShmen".
SculptresS Suzanne Silver
cruys Farnam's brother, Baron
Robert Silvercruys, has just
been appointed Belgian minis
ter Canada. He will arrive
here December % to spend a
week with his sister before as
suming his post in the DOmin-
ion. In i dentally, Suzanne'S
exhibition Of bronze buStS at
Upper MOntclair, N. J., has her
conception of this departments
noble profile Sandwiched in be-
tween Bishop Manning and
Herbert Hoover. .HeireSS Anne
Mitchell, whose name has been
linked by the buSybOdieS with
that of ErrOl Flynn entertained
both Flynn and Lili Damita at
the Morocco. Friends of the
amiable Mitchell gal are begin
ming to fret because so many
European ne'er-dO-WellS are
hanging around her. The legs
quisite Marlene Dietrich wants
the Theater Guild to star her in
a play based around Marie An
tOinette.
Is it true the exciting Gypsy
Markoff is secretly merged with
the purser of a French liner?
The other Gypsy Rose
Lee giggles over the printed &C.
counts of her $4,000 mink coat
which the polite bandits permit
led her to retain. They looked
t over and sniffed," she says. IT
paid $1,000 for it four years ago
t isn't worth $400 now. But
wasn't I lucky-I just paid my
first premium with LloydS on that
ewelry early in November" e.
Highest applause for the daring
number on orange globes per-
formed by the Gae Foster girls at
Roxy'S-but dangerous. Little
Dolly Fritz, for instance, fell off
md is bedded with two sprained
ankles. Description of Holly
wood: Sex characters in search
If an author.
Emil Jannings has just been
accorded the accOIade Of appre-
citation for his work in the Ger
man pic, "TraumuluS"-a pic
ture of the Fuehrer-signed by
Herr Hitler himself. . The PhyI-
lis BrOoks-Cy Bartlett romance
came to stormy end the other
night following a long distance
tell-0ff conversation between
the two. Herbert Marshall is
haunting the hospital bedside
of Gertrude MichaelS Doctors
HOSpJ Suggested title for one
of the chapters in Dorothy Kill
gallen'S fascinating book:
"Gaum-but not fOrgOtten!".
From Montreal comes a letter
from Nils GranIund requesting
this departments aid in gather
ing lovely new faces for him to
add to models he is securing
from Jeff Machamer, Howard
Chandler Christy and McClel-
land Barclay Another tip to
the towns lOvelieS: The Para
disc Is preparing a new show,
to open in January, and seeks
about two dozen beauties. :.
Contrary to printed reports, vi
vienne Lafone, the highly pub
licized beauty of the French
Casino, is not married to a
British peer, but to a Michael
LafOne, distant relative of a
British Lord. She has no chill
dren. Eleanor POwell'S chief
escort around town is her mama
=. Pretty Mae Medley, former
Hollywood Restaurant chorus
gal, is now the fIOwer-peddIer at
the Cotton Club-and doing a
Iand-Office business, earning
twice as much in extra bonuses.
Ethel Allis, who was divorced
from Paul Page of the cinemas
only a few month ago, flew to the
Coast and rewed him a fortnite
ago Barbara Bennett Dow
ney is reading scripts-planning
20 go back on the stage {.
Amusing, the letter describing why
and how Helen Morgan socked
that cop in Austin, Texas {.
The screens new heart menace
Sable and Taylor are warned
S Tyrone Power, jr., now in