The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-27

Will. mllllO1lS VI. uO1ldIS III
Incidentally, Laemmle revealed
for the first time that several sea
sons ago, in desperate need TO
money to carry on, he found NJ
one to turn to except the lad VIII,
had once been his secretary.
Irving Thalberg. And Thalberg
without q murmur of protest, haG
come through-"Tomorrow." h
said, I think will come knock
ing at Irving'S door-maybe n
can find something for me to do
I don't think he'll turn me down.
Katharine Hepburn sits at the
long table in the r. X. o. COM
missary, thanked on the left by
Harry Carey On the right by
Director John Ford. Carey has
been her table companion al
most daily for two weeks. The
gal chatters away necessarily
(Since there are no newspaper
men at her immediate tablet
and in the midst of some par.
ticularly emotional haran9ue
during which she waves her
thin hands wildly while her
wide, not too handsome, mouth
curlS and twists, she suddenly
breaks off, rises ana runs to the
side table where the pastries are
lined up, selects a particularly
fancy and gOOey looking piece
and digs her teeth into it on
her way back, continuing the
conversation as she settles down
.. AT another table alone sits
Florence Eldridge MRS. Fred'c
March) in q peculiar medieval
curly cOiffure (She'S Queen Eliza
beth in "Mary Of ScOtIand'') :. .
With us are H00t Gibson and
Harry JaIls-Jafis opens his jaC-'
ket to reveal a gat slung from
his shoulders bad man in the
new HO0t Gibson picture >.
Anita Colby (SOunihan) looks
at her watch. Novelist John
O'Hara has promised to come
out this afternoon. Local para
grapherS see it as q romance
with 81 Bartlett as the other
menace, but, as stated here sew
eral times, the COunihan's heart
thrOb is for tennis player Gre
CORY Mangin back EaSt-whO
calls her almost daily over the
long distance phi one Sitting
alone, too, Is Lew Brown, now
an r. X. 0. producer. 81 get
no earbends this way" he ex-
plains .'I like to talk to my
Self-Pm a good listener.
We spend the early hours of the
post-midnight morn in the hila
rious precincts of the Casanova
where diminutive Jerry Bergir
continues to drive patrons ir
cachinnatory mysteries . The lit
tie fellow has become a finished
comic. Here, too, is the ga
who tears a piano apart and lifts
the ceiling with her syncopations
80. Frances Faye And for the
softer mood, the three Roberts
Brothers-alSo graduates of the
old Ha-Ha Club-just signed tt
appear in the new Bing Crosby
picture Jack LaRue is in gay
spirits this evening and againsl
the wall sits Johnny Weissmulle1
in a party of four, all rocking thu
place with their laughter as one By
one they draw comic pictures or
the table cloth and pieces Of
paper 49,.
Passing Zeppo Marks, it Oc-
ours to us that here is genial
irony /. It has never been q
secret that ZeppO was always
considered a complete nOn-es-
sential as far as the Four Marx
Brothers were concerned
The critics insisted he lent moth
ing to the act-GrOuchO, HarpO
and Chico were all that counted
80. So ZeppO finally stepped out
%. Today, in the short time, his
income is fully on par with
perhaps in excess Of-that of
his comic brothers He has
become one Of the tOpnotch
agents, handling some of the
highest priced stars in the bust.
ness -. MargOt Grahame leaves
for London next month to re.
turn to her estranged husband.
Francis Lister-SO she insists. ,
Betty Cradle and Jackie COOgan
have set their wedding date
December 10. 1887. Some
romantic significance in that
date-whatever it is.
Hear from an authentic source
that ETHAN Frome," one of the
outstanding plays of the Broadway
season, has only recovered $500
toward the $40, 900 spent on it's pro
duction, having just broken about
even each week on it's current nut
E. And so far none of the picture
companies have seemed to want tc
touch it-because of its morbic
themes : King Levinsky is still
playboy1ng around the mite spots
tossing his mixed SyllableS and
stunning the natives with his orig
tnal PHILOSOPHERS, which sound like
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