The Washington times., 1936-12-17
I THE VOICE OF
Broadway
By Louis SoboI
Diary Of a CoIyumist's S
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Sneer the way they spend hours
talking about whether he should
or whether he shouldn't, but
when am eating my heart out
for my Bedlington honey, it's a
big laff to them, especially when
the Queen says to Eaglebeak how
it's all she can do to keep me on
the leash when Bibsie'S around.
''I think" says the Lady, "it's won
derful how a man will give up
country and position and every
thing for love-" and he growlS:
''Well, all I can think is maybe
some 10 years from now when his
coffee is served to him cold and
watery like mine is and he bawlS
her out for it, If she tries to
argue with him he can say: You're
talking yet. Look what I gave up
for you'll" and she says: Love
like those two have will never
bother with such trifleS like cof-
fee-and he won't blow up like
you do every time spend few
pennies for a hat or something.
Have you seen the new Simpson
hats? They're gorgeous" But
he turns back to his papers and
she can't get word out Of him.
Wednesday-He has a long let
ter from the Coast and he reads
part Of it to her. "I've been hear
ing about this" he says, "but
thought it was just talk but now
when Mike takes the trouble to
write about it it must have some
foundation" and she says: What
in the world are you mumbllng
about?" and he says: "Why Mike
says there's no doubt that Joan
Crawford and Franchot Tone are
having some sort of miSunder-
standing and that it's bound to
pop any day now. He writes that
Tone is pretty much upset about
it. And he writes, too, that he
has on pretty good authority that
everything isn't so forte between
Jimmy Cromwell and Doris Duke,
but he says he can't get at the bot
tom of the trouble-only it's not
because Of some other man or
woman in the case"
"Oh," murmurs the Queen, II
hope it isn't 50 about either OF
them-I mean the Tones or the
CromwelIs, because they look so
happy and beautiful in the pic
lures in the papers. Oh, / meant
to tell yOu-I ran into Barney
Gallant yesterday and he said
for me to ask you to say some
thing about Hans FlatO going TO
decorate his new place on uni
versity Place. It'll be nice, won't
it, to see Barney fuSsing around
in q place Of his own again and
saying to every nice gal, Ah,
Mrs. GaIlant'!"
Pushface says, "Yeah! Sure"
and pushes his face into a book
he's just gotten, which has all OF
Eugene O'Neill's best plays, and
suddenly he looks up and says: Il
could have cleaned up a fortune
II hadn't been dumb. Crooked
Lane ran again and she won"
The Lady says, who's Crooked
Lane?" And he says, "1t's a horse
they've been keeping under cover.
but I always called Broadway
Crooked Lane so it should have
been a good hunch. Besides which
she's sired by Memory Lane and
the dam is Crooked Way. What
more of a hunch should there be
for a Broadway reporter?"
The Queen says: "A good
hunch is not to bet on horses.
You ought to know"
Thursday-They come in late
and I hear her raving about 8
French girl named Rachel Carlay
who sings at Zelli's. II think"
she says, "she's marvellous" and
he. says: "She's got a classy
chassis" and she says: with the
way age has been sneaking up on
you it's refreshing to think you
even notice girl has cute shape
or nice legs" and he looks at her
queerly and snaps: Don't be
funny"
The Lady says: ''Why, dar-
ling, I mean it, and that's why
understand why you take some
Of those pretty girls out. It's
because you're trying to hold on
to your flaming youth, isn't it
sweetneSS?" And he grOwlS:
"Lay off. I'm tired. 1 want to
60 to Sleep"
Later he says: IT ran into a
neat little story tonight. There
was a cute trick named Arlene
Heath-No-I never took her
out-T got eyes, haven't I? Well,
she comes in from the Coast with
those other kids and stays about
three weeks, and suddenly she
gives her notice because she says
she can't bear it to be in the East
here without her husband, so she
leaves to joint him out on the
Coast"
THAT'S awfully sweet, I think"
purrS Beautiful.
He says:
"Well, she joins him out there
and she's only been with him
month and now / hear they've
broken up and she's leaving
him." The Queen says: 30, I
think that's sad. Did tell you
/ was riding in the subway and
they've got posters showing DR..
Dafoe and the .quintriplets, and
it's a contest? You have to
write a slogan to fit. Well, in
the car I'm In SOnehOdv