Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-13

NEW YORK, Nov. lo.-IhougntS
while trolling: rural name: Sher
Fields. the orchestra leader. A lone
time between headlines for little
Gloria Vanderbilt. That thud wa;
the terrific flop of the kaufman
Ferber hoot. ha. ha. for Hollywood
stage Door" Air agonies; Radio
stars plugging their own movie re-
leases. e..-
Look alikes: Toscanini and Lewis
Stone. You'd never think Yelling
ton Cross duding it along the ave-
nue., was once a depot platform in
Cameron. Mo. Who knows Ramona's
full name and the meaning of kith?
Rhyme: Mrs. Simpson must be VIM
some. You have to fill up with
something. y
For my money, to spread the sas-
safras tea and red table cloth aura |:
Martha Dean. And ditto, Morgan
Dennis. as etcher of dogs. Samuel
Hopkins Adams could double for
Gene Lockart in a pinch One word
description of Zasu Pitts voice
syrupy. Memory: The Six Brown
Brothers saxophoning Tell Me,
Pretty Lady,"
Gentlest OF the movie producers:
William LeBaron. Silliest of the
baseball naming = calling Walter
johnson The Big Train. Will Rog-
ers's daughter Mary could win any
beauty prize IN a walk. And she
has that inherited strain of her
Dads self conscious shyness along
With it.
Only New York hotel on record
TO have a come -Dack-The st. Regis.
Conde Mast certainly knows how
to put on a sartorial shine. He
fairly CLOVIS No city editor on
Park Row ever kept reporters on
the run like Herb Swope, yet all
swear by him. No. windbag: Gen.
Hugh Johnson.
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One of the grand. glorious oldsters
is the late SINE Silverman's mother.
She confesses to 90, but some sus-
pect she's Judging year or so. A
devotee of draw. she frequently sits
in and plays a stiff game with
Shines former cronies until far into
the night. She has her own car
and on occasions drives it. Some
how when she went on her sum-
mer vacations her letters to Slime
gave him a chuckle. She signed
herself-first and surname In full:
Your loving mother-Rachel Sill
verman."
Sign on an upper Broadway goob-
er stand: Twenty million monkeys
can't be wrong, so peanuts must be
good, ..r - s
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The late, gifted young Irving
Thalberg had to buck the tortureS
of insomnia. much of his spectacu-
lar career. Always physically frail,
he was a glutton for gigantic tasks
and ideas buzzed like hive of
bumblebees. He had for a long
period slept an hour or so and re-
manned awake three and four. But
it was during these stretches of
wakefulness. his most extravagant
and successful ideas fomented In
like manner. Thomas Edison often
said his better inventions were in
cubated out Of those dragging inter-
ludes when sleep was coy.
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Also the cat-nappers. Fortunates
who can drop off any time, any
place and after 40 Winks be as fresh
as a daisy I used to beguile $l2
| a week from a city editor who after
each of our five daily editions would
cup his head in his hands at his
desk and completely lose himself
for five minutes-no more, no less.
And was again back and rarin' to
CO. Napoleon. of course, is cele-
brated for the figurative tuck under
the wing at any time night or day
The subway has its quota of those
who fall asleep upon taking seats
and never fail to awaken as they
roar into their stations. Most war
correspondents = Frederick Palmer,
Floyd Gibbons, Richard Harding
Davis and such-acquired the trick
of mapping at will. They had to
to survive the pace.
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In the de luxe midtown and
Wall Street barber shops they are
known as glollers" = welcome pa
irons who drop in for a half hour
or so daily just to be fused. with
perhaps acquire a nubbin Of sleep
or quiet meditation. They like the
contrasts of hot and cold towels,
gentle maSsaging, head scratching
and so on. And they are the most
extrayagant of tippers. Two and
five buck boys. Ralph Barton. in
sonnia sufferer for years, could Of
ten salvage a brief nap in a barber
chair after a night of tossing.