The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-31
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
BY Louis SObOl-
Casual Comment!

with great delight Hype Igoe's re-
vealing piece on the fellow when
Damon Runyon, just back from
Texas, dropped in..."1 never
heard him use a swear word
even," said Runyon. :. Hes so
gentle I don't think he could ever
put a fellow on the pan. Some
times he gets a little mad. The
worst I ever heard him say about
a chap was once when he was
pretty upset about a piece Of
scurvy underhandedness by some
one he had no use for I. Hes q
funny fellow" Sam said. That's
the most vicious statement ever
heard him make. Accent Sam
Harris as this departments per
Sonal nominee for Broadway'S
incest guy.
Dark-eyed, gay Hilda Moreno
Is back in town after many
months in Spain where she had
just completed two pictures and
was about to start on a third
when a young officer, after pro-
testing fervently his mad pas
sion for her, urged her to for
get her picture work and leave
Spain "Why?" she asked.
He took her. through dark
streets to q cellar under an old
house latter convincing her
that his intentions were purely
hOnOrabIe) and there pointed
out to her a heap Of uniforms
and firearms. What it that
fOr?" she asked. "A masque-
rade?" kiss me-" he said,
"and then 90 home and pack
and leave Spain" Hilda didn't
kiss him but she did 90 home,
packed and left. Two days
later the revolution exploded in
all its fury 81 wonder" she
sighed, "if that young fellow is
dead by now. He was so nice.
From London arrives a mass
greeting from a group Of Broad
way exileS, the signatures includ-
ing those Of Jimmy Durante, Nor
ton Downey, Lew Leslie, Irving
Caesar, Morris GeSt, Irving Mans
field, Arthur Tracy, Ruby New
man, Tony DeMarco, Davy Burns,
Jack Arnold, Wally Ford and Lou
Holtz The import of their mes
sage is that London night life is
now the gayest in all the world,
reminiscent of Broadway at the
height of the speakeaSy era.
The P. S. is We're lonesome
as hell for the old town. Keep
the sidewalks unhinged until we
get bac:ii" AT the same time q
letter arrives from William and
Madeline Gaxton poStmarked
Brussels announcing their inten-
ton of joining the American col
ony in London and then starting
for New York planning to be here
August IL. From Oslo arrives q
letter from Mathea Merryfield.
"OSlo." she writes, "is full of
American tourists. The Yale Glee
Club was just here and scored a
terrific success. Their white flan-
nels were impressive. People here
think anyone wearing white flan-
nelS is either a doctor, a street
Gle !ner-or nuts. Denny Scanlon
has started suit here against the
father of Sonya Hjenie because
she jumped his contract with her.
The most regular fellow in all
Europe is the King-they're posi-
lively goofy about him and don't
blame them"
Now it appears the Paradise,
too, has dispatched an emissary
to Hollywood to bring back two
dozen of filmdom's loveliest for
the new show. so the race is on
between the Paradise and Holly
wood Restaurant, each of which
will feature "HollyTood'S Loveliest
GirlS-1mported at Great Elk
pense" But the giggle is that
the loveliest girls in Hollywood
are those who went there from
New York. 1t would be much
take this observers word
for it, to pick the dainties here,
ship them to the coast and then
bring them right back again. ..
Word comes to me that the Roy
crofters, founded in East Aurora
by the late Ebert Hubbard and
his wife, is slowly fading out of
the picture, due to the depression
and that the famous Roycrofter's
Inn has passed out Of the hands of
Ebert Hubbard, I'd, into the pos
session of an outsider and also Is
in danger of folding. The handi.
work of the RoycrofterS on sale
here can be had at panic prices
even some of the original choice
bindings and books Of Alice Hub
hard RETAILING fnP aS lnxy aa RI