The Washington times., 1936-11-25

II VOINE vi
Broadway
BY Louis SObOI-
Snapshots at Random i!
The tall Hindu in white turban
and Bond st. suit, standing in
front of one Of those metal-knot
puzzles in the Automat on Broad
way, near 46th-he finally solves
it and his face lights up with
triumph as the coffee spurtS out. .
Teeming tumult at the Cotton
Club Saturday night finds Kermit
Roosevelt, Jr., and party in one
box, young Franklin D. Roose.
velt,- Jr., land Ethel DUPONT, John
Roosevelt, Angie Duke and others
in a nearby box There is some
controversy with photographers,
who finally snare their shot when
F. D. and the DUPONT gal, sneaking
out of the back entrance, are about
to step into a cab .. Later at the
Kit Kat Club, young Roosevelt and
his fiancee again, attracting less
attention than another tWoSome
at a table near the floor-Noel
Coward and Gertrude Lawrence
... Gypsy Rose Lee, strip-gaI
queen, assumes her best lorgnette
manner as some of the ruder pa
irons joStle her, but maintains an
aristocratic serenity as she con-
verses with her Socityy COM
panions, Julia Donahue and Tom
my Higgins.
In Ell Morocco, Saturday
night, one of the better known
young gents of town who has
been passing a few checks
around, is advised by John PerO-
ma that no more checks will be
acceptable Affably, the play
boy suggests: "My watch-I sup
pose l could put up my watch
for security eyes," agrees
PerOna. Your watch-that is a
good idea. "A frOwn clouds
the patrons brow II for.
got" he murmurs, II just
handed it over to Sherman Bill
ingSley at the StOrk ."!...
Producer Pandro Berman and
Leo Spitz, head of R.K.O. pic
lures, summon the blossoming
MftI Green to their table after
the startling stampedes the crowd
ed Versailles with her talented
m1m1cries and exciting carolings,
=. There is an intense huddle
and something may come of it
At a wall table, deeply en-
crossed in each other, George Jean
Nathan and Sylvia Sidney-with-
out her smoked glasses ,. =.
Tuesday night at the corner of
69th and Columbus Ave-, Dr.. Da-
foe leans over to measure off
distance from the ground with his
Misunderstanding height of sample
Dionne . =. Tuesday night in
the Clover Club, a persistent neigh
Dor aSsailS the fetching Dolly
Dawn with his attentions
II could go for you, baby" he re-
marks in a whisper that can be
heard clear across the street
81 know" murmurS Dolly-"but
not where I'd tell you to-"
Halt hundred of the towns
leading illustrators and cOmmen-
tatOrs assemble at Jack and
t. Charles Thursday night-in-
vited to the gratuitOuS coffee
and, by virtue of having con-
tributed to the fancy brochure,
"The Iron Gate" =. The
evening finds TOaStmaster
Bugs Baer in rare form, and
the only four ladies present
Lois Long, Mrs. Lowell Thomas,
Nancy Randolph and Maddie
HOff (Guy HOff's dtr.)-trying
to be brOadminded in a strictly
stag atmosphere IlIuStra-
tor John LaGatta offers to read
agate print at 10 feet to refute
a printed statement that he was
going blind LuciuS Beebe
contributes a gem of OratOry
containing multiSyIlabics in ap-
proved Harvard style-and Will
COrum discusses his early boy
hood while thousands sip their
coffee Other imprOmptu
DemOstheneS include Rube Gold
berg, James Montgomery Flagg,
Lois Long and John McClain,
with heckling by o. SOglOw and
C. d. Russell
Anna Neagle, screenymph, en-
terS the Ritz early Thursday morn
ing, with approximately $4,000
worth of slaughtered mink on her
shapely torso to shut out the cold.
In the Shubert Alley in audible
but undoubtedly affable argument
George s. Kaufman and Edna
Ferber. Vera Hall, one of Man
hattan'S most beautiful models,
clingS to Joe Dorn's arm at the
premiere of 900 Were Chosen" at
the 48th st. Theater, Friday night.
. The play deals with the recent
pilgrimage of Mid-WeSternerS to
bleak Alaskan Steppes where the
Government promised them the
world and instead left them
stranded for a time. would