The Washington times., 1936-06-16
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
BY Louis SObOI-
Scraps From
The News Heap!

JllO OduIuOlI- lush NHNS nv "
are having it annulled already
-. They eloped three weeks
ago :. . The RabelaiSian min
strel, Eddie Davis, and his
frau will adopt a tiny gel
from the W. k. Chicago Cradle
Broadway, puzzled and
skeptical when this dept an
nounced the elOpement of
Billy Revel Moore and Ann
Kogut), was unaware that
Revel and Jane Moore had
been secretly divorced six mos.
ago..
Fannie Brice insists she is fully
recovered from her malady and
the Shubert office calls up to re-
peat she will reopen in the FOllies
some time in August The
report was the brilliant Brice,
would never make a stage appear
ance again Thrush G. NieSen
departed for the Coast Tuesday
p. m. and Paula Stone and Henry
Wilson left yesty, but Dorothy
Stone and Charlie Collins remain
here until Fred Stone arrives here
within the fOrtnite The SuS-
ceptible Jimmy Cannon is now en-
crossed in Songbird Sylvia Froos
-. incidentally, Jimmy and his
H'woOd Rest. eyeful parted wks.
ago when, after a quarrel in
cab, Jimmy stepped out and
snapped: "Driver-drive this girl
out of my life!"
George Marshall and Wendy
Iglehart are dodging moonbeams
E. Chevalier is reported signed
by the Music Corp. for a night
club appearance here Murray
Norman, the B'way lenSman who
has been Tilted by seven gels in
as many months, opens studio
in London shortly-to forget :.
Those two mysterious SpeCkS float
ing about on the vast stage show
at the R. C. Music Hall are alive
and speak-midgetS Patricia
Whitney, Paradise lovely; now Su-
ing Lee Mortimer for annulment,
will be featured on his radio pro-
gram tomorrow SeXotic Ag-
mes AyreS may travel the come
back trail via Metro contract
she was once Valentines celluloid
throb With Jack Pills in
PariSque exile, the French doll
Simone Simon is conSoling herself
with Philip Holmes on the Coast.
The Jack Pearls celebrate their
18th wedding anniversary on Flag
Day. The Ray PerkinSeS filled
the baSsinet Monday, tagging the
gel-tenant Miss Little New Deal
until they hit upon a better
label. . .PerOna, opening his West
chester Bath Club, may also keep
EI Morocco open during the sum-
mer months . Songwriter Lew
POllack and his bride have re-
newed their cOurtShip on the
Coast. .SchOOlbOy Joe PaternO, jr.,
and his bride, Beverly Parker, are
back in town, now that the term
is over The "handieS" craze has
been glOrified in q book created
by NewSpapermen Lou Wedemar
and Bob Low, with Milt Gross il
luStrationS Personalities Sug-
geSted by play titles: Idiots De
light" adolf Hitler Zone Good
Year" Benny Fields . . winter
set" Charlie ButerwOrth) {.
"Three Men on a Horse" MACK
GOrdOn) Trouble for Two "(Joe
LOuiS)."
Movie Critic Frank Nugent was
rushed to Gotham Hospital Wed
neday nite-throat infection. .
A fleet of open cabs is scheduled
to add to the confusion here. .
Poppy de Albrew and Olga Hilliard
are doing Hollywood with a ven
geance-tossing 2 parties daily
cocktail Sorties at 5-dinner
parties at z. .Budd Hulick (Stoop-
nagle and BudO has reached the
Swooning stage with Lucille Kellar
:. Part of Greta Garbo's new
"I'm-human-like-you'' policy will be
more frequent visits to Hollywood
nite-SpotS and lifting the ban that
kept visitors, including newspaper
men, off the set when she was
working. &. That will probably keep
cracks like this out of the column:
sample title for Garbo's next pic
ture: "The Shoe Must Go On"
Ernie Hoist has drawn up a
list for this department of famed
orchestra leaders and their pro-
fessions before they picked up
the baton: Paul Whiteman was
a cab-driver. Richard Himber, a
booking agent. Don Bestor, an
alderman in Kankakee, Ill. Ben
Bernie, a vaude comic. Joe
Reichman, a lawyer. Johnny
johnson, a professional ball play
er. George Olsen, head of a
moving van company Ben Pol
lack, clothier. . Abe Lyman,
taximan and restaurateur .
Buddy Rogers, a movie star. B.
A. Rolfe. motion picture pro-
ducer Eddy Duchin, a licensed
pharmacist. Harry Salter, fore
man in the oil fields in Tulsa.
Frank Black, a chemist. Russ
Morgan, a coal-miner. Ozzie
Nelson, a football star. Hoist,
himself, incidentally. was a junior
executive in a steel company.