The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-06

MIN.
Snapshot: The sepian swing
ers at Onyx Club blasting out
"Three Blind Mice" with vocal
interpretations Have tn e m
sing that again." murmured a
girl at a waIIside table. E.
Pretty girl-tOtally blind
Speaking of those "handys"
which this department brought
to town, they're not entirely new
Ed Wynn did gOOfy series OF
them back in 1915 in the Shu-
bert Gaieties. .Wynn'S son, Kee-
nan, is keenest about Ursula
Seller, ION Your Toes" pretty
Two more gels join the Holly
wood parade-Mary Alice Rice
goes to the coast on Universal
ticket, Ella Logan joins the Sam
GOIdwyn ranks Two of film
dOm's prettieSt making the
rounds this week-Anita Louise
and Paula Stone. . 1t isn't dyna-
mite with Alexander GradiSOn
and Lorraine CARMEN, DIR. Of
the dupont exec.-it'S love.
The First Lady still adheres to
an ancient family custom Just
before retiring, guests to the
White House are approached by
Mrs. Roosevelt, who asks them
personally what they want for
breakfast the following morning
When a Broadway reporter en-
deavoring to be cute purred to
Hammer Swaffer II hear you used
to be a newspaperman - before
you became a critic" London's
famed caustic snapped: Il still
am a neWspaperman--t why
I'm a good critic" Betty Sund-
mark, graduate of the Hollywood
Restaurant showgel line, returned
on the Queen Mary, dropping
diamonds from fingers and wrists
with a bankroll of Is gees -.
London" she murmured, lis so
utterly, utterly hospitable II"
IA sentimental touch in the re-
union of Joe Weber and Lew
Fields-for one day only =. E. This
will be on July /, when Weber
will fly to the Coast to appear in
q skit with Fields for the Actors
Fund . E. Two British producers,
Lee Ephraim and Louis DreyfuSS,
arrived on the queen Mary to bid
for English rights to ION Your
Toes" j. Harold Murray, roman
tic figure of the musical stage in
bygone days, may retire perma-
nently-he is vice president and
treasurer of a New England brew
ing company doing a flourtshlng
business.
SNAPSHOT Slim, bare h ead
young man rejecting cab after
cab in the lineup in front of
French Casino, Tuesday night
until the one which suits his
fancy rolls up-H. H. Rogers,
jr. Harold MinSky of the
burIesque clan and Anita Ar
den have developed the fever
"A giggle is the distress Of
an owner of an apartment
house in the East 80s who re-
fuses to lease to nOn-Aryans. -,
One of his prettier tenants is
a gal who signed the lease
only a few weeks ago, and he
has just discovered that the
gent who pays the rent for her
is obviously and visibly not an
Aryan. Bill Cleveland, former
Journal air.pilot, becomes the
highest Salaried private air
chauffeur in the country as
personal pilot for George Van
derbiIt.
Encouraged by the success of
"The GreaG Ziegfeld" and Louis
Pasteur," practically every major
studio is hungry for biographical
stories >. At present Oscar Ham
merstein is finishing up a screen
version based on the life of his
famous grandpa George Me
taxa and his bride have joined the
Hollywood colony Junior
Laemmle will travel to Europe with
- his father next month and upon
his return will start an independ-
ent unit . British reporters now
in town hint that, concerted
campaign against crime, similar
to the current Dewey investigation.
Is all set to explode London's
underworld Crime in London?
Does Scotland Yard know? 8.
j. j. Shubert will produce pictures
in England in the fall while his
son Johnny is out on the Coast
learning what he can about the in
dustry there June Lorraine,
talented gel who drew columnar
raves, goes into the Village Barn
tomorrow mite Washington.
says Benny Fields, would probably
welcome a Zioncheck-out At
Dinty Moore's the other mite, one
of the BroadwaywarditeS called
two friends aside and piped: Eel
lows, I wouldn't tell this to my
own mother. If I let you in on
something. will you keep it strictly