The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-28
THE VOICE OF
BrOadWa Y
-ByLOuis SObOl-
Casual Comment!

AAC VI oil Wd4ICL 1Gd4C1S1 4OA
the new restaurant bar in the
Warwick Hotel. AS part of the
decorative motif, there will be a
running frieze composed of 40
heraldic shields. Artist Cornwall
has conceived the impish idea OF
having those 40 shields symbolic
of 40 outstanding gentlemen of
America, among whom he in,
cludes several columnists. To
this end Mr.. Cornwall is creating
heraldic crests for each-in other
words, for the first time in his
tory Broadway columnistS will
have their personal shields. 1. To
protect the back, no doubt!
Mildly inspiring to the news.
minded is the report that the
versatile millionaire Rudy Vallee
is now wooing a girl said to pos
sess remarkable beauty doll
named Mildred Vrabel who
models for a living. . That Mayor
LaGuardia's personal secretary re-
ceives only 81 a year-she is
Mitzi Somach, wife Of DR.. Irving
Somach, who makes ill actors we'll
but can't make bad actors good
That Times Squares largest
electric sign will shortly make its
debut, advertising a chocolate bar
That Cinda Glenn, star of the
French Casino troupe here (Amer-
lean born) might have been on
the way to become the Mrs. Simp-
son of Sweden-but thought bet
ter of it and rejected the pro
poSal of the grandson of the
King Of Sweden. . That the Rob-
ert Benchley-LouiSe Macy ro-
nance seems to have dissolved
into gentle pally-wally friendship
Ironic that, on the very day
of his death, a mag should hit
the stands with a cOmprehen-
sive article on Oris p. Van
Sweringen and his vast railroad
empire. . "One thing is certain"
you read, "the future Of Oris p.
Van Sweringen and his system
is too deeply involved with the
economic forces that cannot be,
judged in the mere terms Of his
ability or his systems financial
and mechanical arrangements"
-. The writer forgot to include
a mere important fOrce-Death!
-. Conflicting reports from the
cOaSt-One that Barbara Stan.
wyck and Robert Taylor have
cancelled their trOth; the other,
and more believable, that they
will wed on or about the 18th of
January. For another dose Of
irony: Herman WaSSerman, the
pianiStic genius who numbered
among his pupils as diversified
hOpefuIs as George Gershwin
and Doris Duke, was informed
by cardiac exDert some months
ago that he had only a few
weeks to live-perhaps, with
care. a few months. So he
went to another SDecialist. who
confirmed the others gloomy
diagnosis. The SPECIALISTS were
DIR. Mark ROthchild and DIR. Al
bert GOldstein. Both are dead
within a few months of each
other. Wasserman has never
been in better health. DIR. Da-
foe is reported to have observed
after inspecting some Of the cur
rent cabaret shows. "This city
has one thing no other city can
rival-its thigh line!"
Widow of another Hamlet" of
by-gone days, Mrs. Richard Mans
field still retains with no ballyhoo
an active interest in the theater-
particularly the Shakespearean
theater Almost nightly you will
find her at little place known as
the Christdora House on Tompkins
Square, where she reads King
Lear, Hamlet, Merchant of Venice
and others among the firmer
stand-bys. . 1t was here that the
then obscure Mr.. George Gersh.
win first got his Start-Ira Gersh.
win, too-Yip Harburg, Gertrude
Niesen-all, as you know, great
opponents of the ShakeSpearean
tradition "A series Of articles
which will rip certain circles in
this town and other towns wide
apart, as the cute saying goes, is
scheduled for the December issue
of Town and Country. 1t is au
thored by Francis o. French, papa
of lucky French, who married
Jack Aston. and is packed with the
type of dynamite which explodes
into heavy circulation-and
fevered whispers and even shouts
-. "You can say this for John
Anderson" said one producer to
another the other night, "his criti.
ciSms always contain a note of en-.
couragement" ."Y hi" agreed
the other sourly. For Gains
Warehouse!" =. ..... 500. =.
Broadway has seen them to-
gether so often, but it cannot
understand =. There is no doubt
they are madIy in love with each
other and there is no obvious
reason why they shouldn't wed,