The Washington times., 1936-07-29
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
Louis SObOI-
SNAPSHOTS at Random !


A picketer struts up and dowr
in front of Dempsey's Behinc
him, initiating his strut are five
kids in single file, chanting: 1--WE
want Dempsey for President"
Gregory Ratoff in Reuben'S &C
cents a yearn for the cheese cake
recipe "Weet mine own two
hends would bake eet so Soor
as I gat back to Hollywood"
AL JolSon seated with Lew Brice
in Gallagher'S deploreS the
fate that drives him back to Holly
wood for another radio assign
ment "Ruby'S on her way by
car already-but the way I'm
picking the bosses, believe me. it's
more profitable I should stay here
I'm getting too good for the
bookieS" Joe E. Browns wide
mouthed grin lights up the darker
recesseS Of Leon & Eddie'S &c,
live it, love It'll" Love what
Joe?" II dunno-juSt love be
ing around New York -"
Frank Morgan ambIes into
"21" Tuesday highland there
is a gaSp-fOr his companion is
the AmazOnian pretty Is ft. q
Lois de Fee. Later at the Rivi-
era, A. c. Blumenthal with the
hOneymoOning clippers, Adelaide
MOffett and Winky Brooks.
PrettieSt girls in town here-but
A. C.'S expression is that of utter
boredom and the hOneymOOnerS
don't seem too happy either. .
Later, at the Gay NinetieS, where
Lupe Velez, inditing q postcard
message to her "ShOnnie" Weiss
muller spots tiny Doris Donald
son, the pretty-panned baby of
the Riviera and shouts across:
"Hey-yOu-yOu too purity to be
out. Look out for the wolves.
Lupe rOars at her own quip.
good, hey-wolves, ha, ha!!"
COmic-mugged Eugene Palette
of the films stops by to hover
over her table for a fleeing Sec
Ond. Odd fact: Here in the Gay
NinetieS are the halves of once
famous singing duos. Jerry
White who with Frank BeS-
singer composed the first radio
team-the Radio Franks. And
Bob BigelOw (whO with Larry
Lee formed one of the first
singing twOsOmeS to float around
in the speaks. Both are d.
vOrced from their partners now
and going solo.
Modern Trend: Blind beggar at
46th and Lexington selling golf
balls and tees instead of the usual
pencils. Playwright Sam Ship
man at the Hollywood. ."I've got
a play now-that'u set the whole
country talking. About IL girls
I wish you were a girl could
use your type!" Midnight in the
mezzanine lobby of the Rivoli. >.
A young gent starts a riot by un-
dressing and lying on the floor,
Spurning pleas and threats Of
uShers to get up and be decent
A cops stick finally perSuades
him. Richard Cromwell, boyiSh
star from Hollywood, studies Gard
caricatures at Sardi's. :. ct h e
are swell. I've made masks of a
lot of these people. I'm a bug on
making m SIX ST." Frances Nc
Coy chants You Hit the Spot"
at the Club 10 and a companion
calls a columnist's attention to
the fact that three former hard
hitting champions are in the room
(but not together . Mickey
Walker, AL Singer and K. o. Phil
Kaplan.
Helene Costello in the lobby
of the LOmbardy, deeply en-
crossed in a letter Mack
MiIlar and Dick Lyman at the
Versailles discussing Millar'S
mission to Hollywood on behalf
of Hollywood restaurant ..
He will bring back by plane "a
beauties picked by a committee
in filmtOwn Stefi Duna COM
ing out of LaRue's is startled
when a man reaches out and
grabs her arm. She starts to
denOunce him in explosive Hun.
garian and then bushes in en-
barassment when she realizes
he's blind and merely wanted as
SiStance across the street.
So desolate-those former play
stores now closed down since the
edict against the pin-ball machines
. Only one remains on Broad
way-and here nightly crowds
gather inside and out looking in
through the windows while serious
faced men duel at chess and
checkers hour after hour At
the Paradise, Ralph Spence, ace
screen writer and gagster, holding
a table audience with some choice
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