The Washington times., 1936-03-20

We ran into Sigmund Romberg
at the Glover Club, making the
rounds with Boris MorroS. i. Boris,
who, stricken with a nostalgia
seizure last week, hoped a plane
for New York-only to discover
he wasn't so homeSick after all
seems content with his new eXecu-
tive duties at Paramount here.
Romberg confessed he has taken
quite a fancy to Hollywood and
plans to remain here for from
four to six months. Over at
the Warmers Sunset Studios, I
fingered while Ed G. Robinson and
Joan Blondell went through their
night club scene for Martin
MONEYS Bullets and Ballots" ."
Robinson, in this pic, portays a
hard-hitting, two-fisted, New York
dick-and it's no secret that the
character in real life is Gotham's
own Johnny Broderick. The
Blondell gal, who is a night club
queen in this film, is as shapely
as ever-but looked tired about
the eyes-and drawn. Perhaps
loveSick-who ~knows-Hollywood
has kept insisting. with a certain
amount of justification, that never
has there been so fervent a court
ship as that of Joan and Dick
Powell-and yet, among a few in
Inmates, it is known that the girl
is still torching for the camera
man she divorced.
Mack Kriendler Of "21" flew
in yesty and promptly invaded
the VendOme. He hinted that
Jack and Charles will most
certainly open a place here.
Sherm BiIlingsley of the StOrk is
also eager to have Hollywood
club-and now, 1 hear, Leon and
Eddie's have the itch Wallace
Beery, clean-Shaven again, hav-
ing deserted the ranks of the
bearded whom we discussed yes
terday, sits alone in a corner
table Of the VendOme Mon
tague Love enters with his
pretty blonde bride and Jules
Bache. Johnny Walker is here
with Edith Craig Walker
and the Craig gal (she's Richly
Craig's widow have been pair
ing for more than a week, al
though neither will admit to a
romance. LuciuS Beebe, con-
frere from New York, settles
down with us-admittedly be-
wiIdered by the tumult into
which he has been thrust .
HoOt Gibson, Herbert Fields,
Dorothy Fields, Walter Wanger,
RaOul Walsh and Alice Joyce
are other MONDAY vagrants =.
Schwartz, incidentally, is now
working on the score for the
mark Of Zorro" which will star
Lawrence Tibbett.
Marlene Dietrich is limiting she
will appear on the Broadway
stage in the fa1l-how this jibes
with her studio commitment we
don't know, but she insists she
will have her New York fling this
time. .CuteSt romance in town is
between Barbara Blame, who has
just turned 18, and Don Mutually
a writer, just rounding his 21st
birthday. Pat Wilder gets hel
first screen assignment, ironically
enuf, not with R.K.O., which
has just signed her for another
six months-but with Metro, which
is borrowing her for :. leading
role in it's forthcoming Speed
:. Jack Wildberg, who expects tt
complete the sale of "Russet
Mantle" today, flies back to New
York before the weekend. He's
handing the town a giggle with
the story about his bride, novelist
Ursula Parrott. Size conceived
the idea of building a sound
proof telephone booth in theil
Connecticut home something
that resembled a padded cell.
For a week after it's completion
she was disappointed because not
a single person called her. Only
to find out that the booth was
so sound-proof she had been un
able TO hear the phone ringing
during the week. .Nazimova took
filmdorn by SO m when she
opened in Los Angeles in Ghosts
:. And what usually follows die
in this case-She has received
bids from practically every studio
from the same studios which
cold-shouldered her and almos
broke her heart some seasons
ago. Hollywood awaits the ar
rival soon of Gertrude Lawrence
and Noel Coward. is it new!
that the 18-year-old Pamela Cor
don, who has a minor role il
Cochran's Revue, Follow thC
Sum-" is her daughter?...
The Cagney. Warner case is
still chief topic of discussion
among the film execs and to
hear them talk you would be-
Iieve that no studio will hire
Cagney for fear of setting
bad example. yet we know that
!. ZanUck is already in the stage
of negotiations with the re-
belliOus star -. Another litter