The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-29

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The gIamOrOus, exciting per-
sOnaIity that was Ziegfeld's has
been recorded for the movie
minded nation to see-nOw
comes the perturbation Of his
fayorite and one of his most
profitable prOductiOns-"ShoW-
boat" And dominating its &C
ton are Broadway favOrites Z.
Charles Winninger III e e n
Morgan Sammy w h ite...
Queenie Smith Little Sunny
O'Dea For once the pro-
ducers have sense enuf to re-
tain most of the original show
tunes-adding q few new ones
It is q picture which pre-
sents Irene Dunno at her YER
satile best, wins favor for
Young Alan Jones and con-
vinces you that Paul Robson
is one of the great singers OF
all time Junior Laemmle
watches his last achievement
for Universal with little Dixie
Dunbar at his side land three
hours later, 10, aand behold, the
same Little Dixie is at the Fa-
NOUS DOOr-thiS time with Jack
MOffett) In the audience,
too, are Walter Annenberg and
June TraviS-the towns newest
rOmance-and the Travis gal
doesn't deny that the formal
announcement of the betrOthal
will break any day Billie
Burke studies what the cinema
has done to her late husbands
prOductiOn-with James Whale
who directed the picture, as her
companion Most of the prin.
cipals are present. Win
ninger Irene ID n n e
Alan Jones with Irene Hervey
Sammy White (whO turns
in q rare perfOrmance)
Norma Krasna with Ann SOth-
ern lis the Roger Pryor TO
nance ended?) :. Cary Grant
with Mary Brian Anita
Stewart blonde nOw-but still
the beauty Of the silent days. :.
Later, most of these people pile
into the Trocadero and Glover
clubs. For a reporters notebook
there is Harold Haas wooing Nancl
Lyons again. Their Sudde y
merger a year ago lasted a day
they parted-and were divorced
=. AT the Clover Club, Leo Fitz
gerald, Sammy Ledner, and Larry
Sabelis sit compiling a list for the
prospective Ziegfeld Club they
have in mind. Members to be
girls in Hollywood who were either
Ziegfeld showgirls or chorus girls
:. Virginia Bruce Barbara Pep
per. Doris Lloyd. Ruby De
r m er. L.. Betty Braune G e r
trude Scott. Marie Wallace. :. .
Alberta Turner .Katharyn Perry
:. Agnes O'Laughlin. N o m a
Taylor. Billie Dove. Virginia
Howard. June Brewster. Hazel
Forbes. Helen Lee Worthing .
Iris Adrian. Edith Hallor.. They
search their memories for names
there are at least two score more
in this town who are eligible, but
they have dropped completely cut
Of the limelight.
At Warner Bros lot we watch
a scene in which 15-year- old snub
nosed Mickey Rooney is being
featured. He leaves the set anc
his stand-in is pressed into service
Henry Stone is the name of thu
Stand-in-a former jockey-agec
a.. . .Cy Bartlett settles down will
us at Al Levy'S. Just signed BY
goth Century, Inc, to do the adap
tation Of Dana Burnets' "Acros!
the Aisle" Confirmation o.
what this department has beer
limiting for two months-nameiy
that Adolph Zukor is to return
to complete control at Paramount
is received in advices from New
York and the long-awaited read
justment now is only a matter O.
a few days apparently. "A groul
of Broadway graduates gathered
in the early hours Saturday morn
ing at the Century Club and addeC
their contribution to the regular
entertainment-the gratuitous per
performers being 11artha Ray
Jerry Bergen, Terry L'awler, Bill!
'ay and Frances Faye.
Frances LangfOrd, whose HOl-
lyWOOd sutton has been Tony
Martin, will shortly announce
her engagement to Billy Chase
from the home town, Lakeland,
Fla. Incidentally, they've
named a seven-acre stretch after
the song birG-Lake Frances,
Polk County, Fla. Jackie
MOffett, one Of the youngsters
wOOing Dixie Dunbar, by COinci-
dence, has a Palm Beach resi-
dence on Dunbar ROa(. Cliff
Odets, fiery icOnOclast, got his
first initiation into the myS-
terieS and thrills Of roulette the
other mite He lost Los
Angeles has the worst record for
auto accidents in the United
States, as a result Of which the
traffic regulations are strict and
the officers give no quarter, re-
gardIeSs of how slight the in
fraction or how prominent the
offender Director William
Wyler, for instance, lad to spend
from dusk Saturday night to
dawn Monday in the hOOSegOw
at Beverly HiIlS-fOr driving 48
miles an hour in a 2O-mile zone
-. aside to Jean Harlow Club:
Miss HarlOw's Memory Lane will