The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-16

purrs-"I love Hollywood-but !
adore Broadway. Little Oracle
Barrie Is guest star, and like the
other Broadway favorites making
their first appearance here, STAN
pedeS the house with her nelo-
diouS outpouringS. Oracle re-
turns to New York-but will be
back here within a month-on the
Universal payroll. Another young
picture star in the making. =. Bert
Wheeler and Sally Haines are
present ready to become mister
and missuS before many more
columns 60 out Of here. Wheeler
is committing almost daily be.
tween Hollywood and Palm
Springs supervising the con.
struction of the hotel he is erect.
ing at the desert resort. Incl.
dentally, the season is beginning
to wane at the SpringS-the Their
mometer registering from lis to
125 at noon the last few days.
Letters from the boys at
home insist that Milton BerIe
at the Paradise is at the hilari-
Gus peak Of his career and
drawing the wit-lOving thrOngs
to the Broadway cabaret. .
There will be q place for him
in Hollywood when he's ready
to com e. =. Incidentally, the
dance team sensation in town
Is the new duo, Grace POggi
and Luis ArnO, who elOped
some weeks back. =. merely .
tip to the operators Of the
smoother night clubs or hotel
rooms back in New York eager
for new faces. All filmdOm, in
ermine and swaIlOwtailS, milled
into the CocOanut Grove for
the debut Of George Olsen and
Ethel Shutta. There were NO
more table reservations avail
able. One studio head had the
brilliant inspiration to try to
sell Gales on the idea Of ap-
pearing in q picture, based ON
the CURRENT situation In Mex.
leo. An under-executive was
commissioned to contact the
former dictator upon his ar
rival here-but he never got
within 10 feet Of him, and the
idea, I presume, viii. never be
cOnSummated. Local Variety
describes our gOlfing exhibition
Salty: Louis SObOI, columnist
for the New York Evening
Journal, drove the piI 20 yards
to q hole, ball popping in be-
side the pin, on last green
SObOl's par Is on the wrong side
Of 1907. SOb0l'S par, to be
more precise, is on the right
side of 200. Incidentally,
Hollywood reporter accuses us
Of perpetrating the Dalmatian
hound stunt and warns stars
not to accept gift dogs. The
truth is the originator Of the
gag is Dick Green, Johnny
Green's brother.
Cy Bartlett has become a Holly
wood road-company Of Quentin
Reynolds. One day, he escorts
Nancy Carroll, Quent's current
heart-on another, it is Anita
Counihan, who preceded Nancy. .
Sunday, Bartlett took both girls
to dinner. and then wired Reyn
olds to please forward expenses. ".
The famous billboard at Universal
on which the elder Laemmle used
to have his slogans and special
messages painted has been re
moved. .Severing almost the last
contact with the Laemmle regime
:. Pathetic is the plight Of the
younger MoroSco, who admitted
the other day, wher arrested FOL
a traffic violation, that he couldn't
raise the $40 for his fine. ctr
New York." he commented, sadly
they still have a theater named
after my father" Charlie Nor
riSon may remain in Hollywood. ).
another Broadway agent DESERVING
the old Stem-he associates him
self with Charles Feldman anC
Ralph Blum. What's become Of
the Charles Chaplin-Paulette God