The Washington times., 1936-08-10
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
-ByLOuiS SObOl-
Weekend Observations!

but following his engagement at
the Rainbow Room, he was pre-
pared to sail on a lucrative as
signment abroad. Luck'S with him
he can stay here. His next en-
gagement was scheduled for Bar
celona, Spain, where they're cut
ting up hi.jinks-and each other.
The little girl who was on
the same train with us three
years ago when we we're return
ing from Miami came into the
Stork Club last night. Strange
case. On the train she intro
duced herself to our group
q lOquaciOus frill who kept chat
tering necessarily and who
seemed unduly forward Her
face was ludicrouSly messed by
one of those aimleSsly, ram
bling large noses and a peculiar
jumpy left cheek-bOne &. Shed
be a good-loOkin' wren," OBJ
served Make ROsenblOOm, at the
time, eff it wasn't for her face
and figger. Take her away"
AS 1 say, she came into the
StOrk last night and the atten-
ton of the room centered on
her. For this was a beautiful
creature with large limpid eyes,
a perfect profile and a seduc-
tive form 1t took many min
uteS to convince us she was
the same girl. Plastic surgery.
Of course But that's not the
point The altered personality
was the surprise She was
quiet, almost shy, more in
clined to listen than to talk >.
She herself analyzed the
change THAT face of mine
kept me beaten down. made
it my business to keep talking
all the time and try to be the
life Of the party, hoping peO-
pie would forget it 1t was
the only way to keep from the
river"
And now the Hollywood Restau.
rant after hearing reports from its
emissary to the Coast, Mack
Miller, is beginning to wonder
whether it's worth while to import
the film beauties for its new show
The little girls on the Coast
have definite ideas. The ideas
resolve themselves into 500 a week
salaries, guarantees of transporta-
ton back and long-term contracts
The lassies in this town, as
pretty (perhaps prettier) -and
there are hundreds of new faces
available-are content with half
that sum-and less-and require
no guarantees. Amiable. young
Tommy Goodman, golf champ, un-
daunted by the distressing expert
ence Of Earle Sande, is now ar
to go into a night club
Stork or Versailles are poSSibili-
ties-not to demonstrate his facile
golf Strokes-but as a crooner!.
From the CatSkiIls comes
word that on several occasions
in the past week when crowds
have assembled to watch Brad
dock train, the champ has sent
out word that he was indiSpOSed
or that it was too hot to work
out. .TraddOck-whO was going
to be different! !! :! Kenny
Baker, the romantic tenor, has
had an unusual clause in his
vaudeville contracts the past
three weeks. 1t provides that If
his heir arrives within three
days before his scheduled open
ing, the contract is autOmati.
cally cancelled so that he can
fly home and be present to vel
come the bassinet arrival.
John Medbury reports that
AdOlph Zukor couldn't make
the party at the end under
stand his name "No, no, no."
he stOrmed, mot Cukor-Zukor
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
UVWXYZ-Zukor!"
Pathetic is the cas- of the famed
comedian of former days, who
until recently had lost the use Of
most of his faculties and only re-
Gently has come back to something
like normal in speech. Bill Hardy
thought he could use him among
his troupe of veterans at the Gay
Nineties and dispatched an ennis
sary to the former COMICS home in
a nearby city The fellow lis
tened carefully and apparently in.
diligently as the details of the as
were outlined Finally,
Hardy's agent, somewhat embar.
concluded: II hope you'll
forgive me-but there's some talk
that your memory is gone-that
you can't remember from one min.
ute to another-now are you sure
this engagement won't be too
much for you?". The former
star stared at the agent blankly
.. Then he said, with a puzzled
expression: Excuse me, buddy,
what can do for you?"
Sometimes a newspaperman
is q guy who meets so much in
tereSting piffle! Arthur Muir
ray reports that a local doll was
recently given a speciality num-
Der at a nitery AS she came
and did her solo number, the
other chOrusweets stood in the
wings and watched with envy
The routine was greeted with
tumultuOus applause by the pa
irons. probably her friends"
hiss one of the coryphees.
Don't be silly" snapped the
other, 1.-TWO people couldn't