The Washington times., 1936-01-27


fatal plane crash which killed II
recently was recovered and for,
warded BloodStained and be-
grimed and in many instances
torn were the envelopes, and in
one corner was stamped Delayed
due to interruption in service"
A full-back-page ad in Variety
exposes q facsimile Of q check
made out for one weeks engage
ment of VeIOz and YOIanda by
Balaban and KatZ in Chicago.
for the sum of $1,000. Six
years ago . reporter sat with
this handsome couple between
their rOutines at the St. Regis
and listened while Frank VelOz,
who had been scheduled for
priesthood, expressed the wistful
hope that some day manage
ments would realize their talents
and pay them cOmmenSurately
They were drawing some
thing like $3.50 a week then
they hoped the time would come
when the weekly check would
average $500. George GivOt, at
thu Hollywood, is still a funny
fellOw-but he won't be funny
much longer to people who have
heard him befOre-unless he
changes his patter . The sue
cess Of Cantor, Benny, Allen ct
al is based on their sense of
public reaction and potential
boredom They keep changing
And now an impOSter, using
this departments name, ap-
preached the manager Of q
music school Monday, insisted
he wanted to take saxophOne
lessons and asked that they be
cuffed. The normal charge for
the lessons is two bits! I've
never been so cruShed!!!
For almost an hour she sat
there in the lobby of the Edison
perhaps waiting for someone
perhaps merely resting. No one
came near her. {. I wonder what
thoughts passed through her
mind-thiS still lovely girl who
was the toast of Broadway not so
many years ago. Ann Penning-
ton. .Hard-boiled, garish Broad
way still finds time to crowd
around the obscure old men play
ing chess in one Of the game
palaces. Lingering outside,
watching the game through the
window, Tuesday night, stood a
blond youngster, bareheaded in
the wintry nights chill. Jimmy
Donahue. Odd twist is that Ben
Cutler, who is to sprout wing as
q singing angel in Max Rein
hardt's Eternal Road" had his
first taste of the stage as Meph-
istopheles in an amateur produc-
ton of Faust" . Some of the
silly situations arising from the
many imposed by certain publish
erS on airbroadcaSts are exempli-
fled in one instance Jan Ru-
bini, an orchestra leader, now at
the Palm Island Casino in Flor
ida, decided instead of sending his
wife a birthday card or telegram
he would have his band play an
appropriate melody. III Apply
Birthday to You" He was
stopped-because the song is one
of those on the banned list.
Oscar OScarSen, premier of
Iceland, where you put on sum-
mer shorts if the mercury rises
to zero, contracted the first
cold in his life when he arrived
here in Manhatten. Recent
film releases show a favorable
trend-the producers are begin
ming to pay more attention to
classic StOrieS-inStead of claS-
sic feature. AT the very mo-
ment Comedian Teddy Berg.
man, who once occupied the
same apartment in which
Times Critic Andre Sennewald
met his death, was telling a
group of friends that but for
the within of Fate it might have
been he-wOrd came to him
that his father was dead Vic
Erwin's definition of Broadway
where phOnies whine and
dine. Capt. Tim Healy of this
town, spycatcher in the British
Military Intelligence during the
war, tells one hitherto untold
story about the late King
George. 1t was on the Occa-
sion of visit behind the lines
in France He entered one of
the sheIl-Shattered houses and
as he returned the salute of
his soldiers, he noticed among
them q boy of about H.. The
King held out his hand in
friendly greeting - and asked
for his name . The boy looked
up but didn't answer. One OF
the soldiers explained "He
can't speak English" George
addressed him in Ere
The boy said he was Belgian.
both his parents had been
killed by a bursting shell and
the soldiers had taken pity on
him and kept him with them
According to Healy. the
King made arrangements to
send the boy to England and
there had him educated He's
a doctor practicing in London
today.
eTroa,.o will ha few loncShore.