The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08

The zestful zanies of buffoon
cry, the three Ritz Brothers, make
their debut at the Clover Club ano
take the town by storm. Gloria
Swanson cackles like a high
school sophomore. Her escort
Herbert Marshall. scribbleS off g
fan note to them. Wallace Beery
giggles Historically George
Burns pounds dead-panned Oracle
Allen on the back and insists
"these guys are the funniest
ever. There are no halfway
measures in the enthusiasm OF
Hollywood. 1t either presses you
to its heart or shoves you away
with fingers of ice Saturday
night, illuminated Terry Lawlor
another import from Broadway
joins the show "a lastminute
change, for she was scheduled to
open in the Century Club)-and
now. on this evening, you rut
your eyes and wonder what magic
has eliminated the wide span be
tween the film capital and Man
haitian, for Broadway crowds the
place. Tommy Guinan, Charlie
Morrison, Lou Irwin, Lew Brown,
the Yacht Club Boys, Joe Lewis,
June Brewster, Iris Adrian, Alice
Faye, Dixie Dunbar, Arthur
(Street Singer Tracy.
Across the road, at the Tro-
caderO, blonde Virginia Bruce,
SHINY, ethereally beautiful.
swings 1.-THE body in rhumba
as she clings one second, pulls
away another, in the arms of
Cesar Romero, who, after these
) many seasons, appears this
night with a nude upper lip,
his familiar muStache shaved
off "A subdued Una Merkel-
looking even Representatives,
attentively to a gay, chattering
Robert Young, who appears to
be her escort this evening AT
a wall side table are the beam
ing, familiar features of Steve
Hannagan-a happy bloke be-
tween two seductive wenches-
one, his pretty niece-the
other, Anita COunihan COLBY
=. Celebrating Steve's birthday
John Barrymore, pOuched
heavily under the eyes, but a
romantic figure nevertheless,
wanders in, thanked by two
gals. walter Connolly and
Media Harrigan This BRIDE,
Beverly Roberts. President-elect
Gomez of Cuba, Patricia Wilder,
Dorothy Dehn are others who
sit around and dance in this
favOrite mite SPOT that offers
no entertainment to speak of
except on its guest mite Sun
days.
Bert Wheeler, just back from
Honolulu with Sally Haynes, drifts
into the Brown Derby-another
like Phil Plant who thinks there
Is no place like the tropical island
closer to Heaven on Earth. -.
George Burns stops us, =. "Groucho
Marks wife never remembers Sid
Silvers' name" he reports. $50
the other day when she stumbled
over it again, Sid says I've changed
my name-you won't have any
trouble From now on I'm Sllvo''
We wander over to the Legion
Stadium for the fights For once
George Raft is missing, having
flown to San Francisco with Vlr'
GINA Pine. But digging his snoot
into the canvas, as usual, is Pat
O'Brien. Near us Frank Morgan
sways and weaves with every
punch. In back of us sits the
veteran Lew Fields-three rows
away, his son, Herbert. Owen
Davis, jr., and Owen Davis, ST.,
sit together Slim Ann Dvorak
enters with Leslie Fenton and Vic
tor Moore settles down with the
Davises.
Lew Brown arrives back in
town. One the same train
has been the bereaved Princess
Louise Van Allen Mdivani. E.
Brown reports the great care
taken both aboard the train
and at various steps along the
route to provide complete Seclu-
sion. AT Chicago, they rushed
her into a cab to escape re-
pOrters and news cameramen.
We run into Harry Akst gig
Cling over an experience with
his tiny DIR. Georgia that after
noon. They had gone to a
movie theater. Harry asked
the yOungster if she would
mind paying his way in, too :.
She scanned her purse and re-
marked regretfully she had only
a dime. "That'll pay my way
in. You won't mind, will
yOu?" he suggested ooh, no,
you can't" she chirped, Gin
this theater it's 10 cents for
children-and Is cents for aire-
dales.". w. X. Vanderbilt and
Jesse Lasky are an interesting
duo at the VendOme. And
again, Leland Hayward makes
an appearance with Ginger
Rogers which stirs buzz
among gOssip-minded cOlOniSts
Over at the Warner lot to
meet another child wonder of
the filmS-Iittle Sybil Jason,
self-pOsseSsed baby who enun-
ciates clearly and decisively
and apparently reSents being
&~no%oS He m infant onI