The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-15
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
-ByLOuiS SObOl-
SNAPSHOTS at Random!

legged, black-and-white companion
Cor mate) fights for its share Of
the bread crumbs and peanuts
donored by fascinated Samaritans
The gray bird fights off the
others If they interfere with the
crippled pigeon. =. Tuesday night
in Mickey Walkers. "A t h u
Dashiel Hammett calmly lights
the cigarettes of three companions
E. Three at timer" queries ar
observer. wouldn't that mean
death in one of your mysteries?'
-. Maybe" he drawlS.. But
am not superStitious-look" :.
With the same match he lights his
own cigarette. . -Four on a match
should mean a massacre, huh?'
Walter Chrysler in white linen
coat and black trousers, heavily
tanned in face, dimes with three
friends at LaRue'S. AT the
Tavern. Charlie aShburn
greets Martin Beck. tits Ger
tainly swelter be alive on day like
this!" he purrs, wiping the sweat
from his brow, Catch on?"
Novelist John O'Hara in "21"
sips . long drink. . my fav.
Orite definition of life comes
from Louis Adamic-"Life is
like licking honey from a
thOrn"-I like that-almOst as
if I'd thought of it myself" e..
Sally Haines. fresh from the
Coast, advises that Bert
Wheeler will be in town to
pick her up for their trip to
Europe. Slim and exquisitely
graceful, Mae Murray shameS
the younger h0neys on the
floor at the Riviera as she
dances continuously during the
evening with a series of part
nerS. There is still certain
amount Of glamOr about this
star of other days. The whiS-
per is that if she will forget
her pride and make some sort
of apology to a certain lofty
and powerful cinema chief,
she can go back to the films
on q lucrative contract. 1t is
no state secret that these days,
Mae Murray is none too af-
fluent. This reporter would
like to see her get the break
she deserves in Hollywood.
In front of MinSky's burlesque
The legleSS beggar studying
the posters of the nudes while his
dog pulls at the leash impatiently
-. Giant Leon Ketchel, said to be
three inches taller than seven feet
"a new pugiliStic menace, in 6
barber chair The man with
the shears has to stand on a soar
box to give the big boy a trim.
In the Stork Club, pretty Gloria
Hatrick, talented daughter of Ed
Hatrick, confides her determine
ton to forgo a summer vacation
and stick to her dramatic studies
-. Recently, she took the Katha
rine Hepburn role in THE Lake
acquitting herself with merit.
The Pat Rooneys, pere ct fills, walk
up Broadway, arm in arm, Tues
day night-the elder Rooney do
ing all the talking, the son listen
ing with absent expression =.
Amazing what they have these
little girls in our big cinema
houses do. Only recently in
the Roxy Theater, the Gae FOS-
ter hOneys had to do tricks on
bicycles. This week, they per-
form on huge, moving globes
trying on the nerves of both
the girls and the audience-but
very effective. And occasion
ally amusing when the kids try
to save themselves from falls .
These Il mean the girls in both
the Roxy and the Music HALL
are the hardest working young
sterS in town-in addition to
the four and five shows daily,
they have to rehearSe in the
mornings and occasionally be-
tween shows for the following
weeks presentation. The pay
is none too adequate-but the
training is excellent. Unlike
the beauties of the big cabarets
or the musical shows, these kids
rarely get publicity breaks
through the columns or drama
tic pages. The other afternoon
rushing along Sixth Avenue,
near Radio City Music Hall, the
divine Gambarelli whom we last
saw in Hollywood. This dan
seuse extraordinary has prOfited
by her film experiences, for
she seems to have attained new
heauty and a certain pOise which
she didn't have in the years
b. H, before HOllywOOd).
Minstrel Eddie Davis at Leon &
Eddie's outlines to Marty Owens
the wonders Of his penthouse. -
IT spend most of the time with my
kid got him a portable swim
ming tank and I put that out or
the terrace but he doesn't want tx
90 in so dive in myself and vol
know? It's lot of fun and I for
get I buy it for the boy. "A
the 1S Club, Monday night, from
the back of the house, Dan HealI
heckles his buddy and formel
partner, Jack White q. The follow
ing night in the Yacht Club {
mixed Hollywood and Broadway
group unite. Tommy Guinan
Songwriters Mack Gordon anc
Harry Revel, Abe Lyman, Milton
Berle and Judy Malcolm anc
Yascha Bunchuk. All turn out K
cackle at the towns hilarious trio