The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-04
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
By Louis SoboI
Snapshots at Random !

horSeman), sits With MISS Snella
Grahame at "21" Saturday night
and explains lugubriouSly that his
injured hand, heavily bandaged, is
the result of reaching for die
tionary. ITS the Gods honest
truth. 1 was reaching for a die
tionary and Knocked over a glass
of sherry which broke and 1 cut
my hand. The adjoining table
finds mixed group assembled, in
Guiding young Carl Laemmle, jr.,
swooning over Miss Olivia de Havi.
land and Jerry Horwin whispering
to Miss Julia Bentley. The
blonde beauty, eX-MrS. Bill Hol-
lingSworth, is young Howard
Hughes companion, and Miss
Jean Bellows finds herself con-
Tossing to Jack Duff that by
coincidence she still resides in the
home in Manhattan which was the
scene of her birth and that the
day Of her birth but not year coin
cides with that of the late Will
liam Shakespeare The pulchri-
tudinouS Miss Bellows, inciden-
tally, is the daughter Of the late
artist, George Bellows. . The Jack
Warmers and Hal Wallis complete
the party. Jimmy Durante enters
and spotting Cole Porter shuffles
over and whispers to the COM
poser of the Red, Hot and Blue"
score, You oughter come and
catch me in my new show.
Producer Alex Yokel, reported
currently feuding with George
Abbott, attends the premiere of
the latter'S modern Uncle Tom
version Sweet River" Wednesday
night at the Fifty-firSt Street
Theater, and joins the kissing
when Simon Legree appears on
the stage. Who are you hisSing?"
inquiries his seat-mate-"Legree
or Abbott?" Earlier that even
ming, fiery-haired Stumpy Jim
Tully presents Jack Dempsey
with a copy of his new book,
THE Bruiser" (the book is dedi-
Gated to Dempsey j.. Tuesday
afternoon, Claire Luce strides re-
gally up Park Avenue toward
Fiftieth, her skirts billowing in
the wind and her pup tugging
vigorously at his leash, disdain-
full of his pup's-eye view of the
shapely Luce CAMS.
Earl Carroll mixes with the
swagger set at Ell Morocco, Sat
urday night. Now a Hollywood
slave, he confesSes freely he likes
it. Here only a few days, he
flew in for whirl of the town
with his chronic attachment, the
lovely Beryl Wallace. In the
early post-midnight hours of Fri
day at the Stork. We settle
down with the MessrS. Durante,
Jack Pearl. Bugs" Baer and Rob
Ripley to share a flock of steaks
and listen to Humorist Baer ex-
pound his views on the late Ring
Lardner and the late Will Rog-
ers.. At an adjoining table, Play
boy Elliot Sperber and the paprik-
iSh lass, Susan Hatch, who
changes her escorts nightly. In
Leon and Eddie's, Saturday night,
while Dancing-Nude Della Carroll
freely confesses the roar and
burn of the flame in her heart
for the withdrawing Monte
Hellinger, little Helen People"
Cunningham approaches and
flashes huge glittering solitaire
on the important finger. IN
December she admits. The
bridegroom-to-be is Saul Arum.
Tuesday night at the Mason
cite Russo, Merle OberOn and
Brian herne in a SOulful-lOver
attitude as if waiting for the
cameras to shoot Milton Berle
exits from the Empire Theater
with his mama Wednesday night
How did you like 'Hamlet'?"
he's asked. "Terrible-phewie
not decent gag in it!"..
Wednesday noon in Central
Park, a handsome pair holding
hands, as they watch a solitary
rover on the lake near 59th
Street-Marguerite Chu rchiII
and George O'Brien, who are
mister and m i SuS Early
Thursday morning-abOut 8, a
sleepy cOIumniSt on his way
home watches with envy the
spirit and pep in the walk of
a stOcky gent (chewing on an
applet and his companion as
they strut by the Savoy Plaza
Governor LandOn is the apple
chewer IrOnic pathOS: A leg
less cripple, Squatted on his
heeled flat drown by a dog,
raises himself by his hand, to
stare into the ShOe-stOre window
at Broadway and 47th .IrOnic
hatOrs: Gypsy Rose Lee gazing
into 57th street art store dis
play of nudes
Vic Oliver, seated with Sara
Churchill at the Cotton Club
wednesday night. Shoes the cam
eramen away The lenshounds
have better luck at the next table
where Richard Dix and his bride
are settled-Dix Strengthening his
tie and adjusting his smile We
linger at the Paradise Tuesday
night for the thrill that always
comes when Virginia Verill pours
ont her soul in handsome song
VIRGINIA. beautiful daughter of D
news paperwoman - niece of
another n w sna perwonnan AT
tho HOLLYWOOD. later Joe Moss
asking newspapermen what thew