The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-11


understands" is his explanati'
Sharply little Ida LupinO en-
tiers and brushes by young Tom
BrOWn-but she doesn't stop
and he doesn't look up. Not
until she is seated does he steal
q glance. Until a few weeks
ago this was one of the feveriSh
rOmanceS among the younger
set. Danny Dare leaves the
table where he has been chatting
with Grace Bradley 20 greet red
headed Terry LawlOr who has
just entered. Terry is singing
at the Clover Club. In New
York she was for q long time
Dare's fiancee. Both deny that
the romance has been renewed
out here. Cecil b. DeMille is
with JEANNE Mcpherson and
one Of his numerous secretaries.
=. His latest gadget is q dictO-
graph hOOdicky placed under
desk which records every bit of
conversation during q confer
ence. .DeMille never lets any
conversation go to waste. Usu-
ally he has from one to two
stenOgrapherS taking down
everything that is said, even in
casual chats. Randy Scott,
Eleanor Whitney, Rochelle Hud.
son and Dick Cromwell are other
MONDAY luncherS at the Para
mount COmmiSSary.
A group of the highpriced
writers sit at one long table
looking neither to left nor right
just down. j.. In front of them
are pieces Of paper marked off
with squares. It's a word game
and it goes on for hours. Long
after everyone else has left the
lunchroom, these young and old
gents sit there at their game. &.
We wander over to the set where
Carole Lombard is sitting, talking
to Director Bill Howard. She
looks ethereal and naive-but the
Lombard girl is noted for her
clever, riSque stories - her two
latest are bowls and will make
this reporter the life of the party
when he returns-unlesS they've
travelled East by that time. The
censors have a word for them. {.
w. C. Fields is missing from the
Poppy" set this afternoon but
Rochelle Hudson and Dick Crom-
well go through a romantic little
scene in a picturesque early Goth
Century setting. And meanwhile,
there is an undercurrent Of unrest
and uncertainty for the lot
knows some sort of change is i'm
pending. las we leave, we drop
in to inspect the deserted elab-
crate set of Hotel Imperial"-Par-
amounts hoodoo picture which
some say may never be made now
it has been bounded by so many
evil breaks. >.
George Olsen with his "Teeth
for Three" smile joins US for
. second or two at the Cocoa
nut Grove, Tuesday night. =.
He and Ethel Shutta open las
previously stated Monday
night, succeeding VelOz and
YOlanda who go on tour, ex-
pecting to land in Manhattan
by October. Fetching Mary
Carlisle in a huge red picture
hat is Junior Laemmle's COM
paniOn this evening and Joe
e. Brown heads q table of six
=. Mary is quite excited about
q telephone call from London
earlier in the evening but re-
fuses to divulge the identity
of the British sutton. .AdOlph
ZukOr, alone, enters as we are
about to depart. ."I've heard
a great deal about these dane.
ers (VelOZ and YOlanda), but
I've never seen them work.
l want to see what they're
like" -. Earlier that evening,
we had Travelled high into the
hills to the home occupied by
Louis Prima, formerly the resi-
dence of Lew AyreS and Ginger
Rogers. You drive for miles
around periIOuS curves over q
marrow trail-but it's worth
it-fOr the view Of the lighted
city below you beggars deScrip-
tiOn and leaves you breathless
=. Here, Prima'S mama, noted
in New Orleans for her culin-
airy genius, prepares q rare
Italian dinner, which starts
with spaghetti and goes on
and on through a dozen varie-
ties of meats and vegetables
to a triumphant climax of a
coffee for which she alone, it
appears, has the recipe. We
mention this merely so that
you won't feel sorry for us be-
cause we're exiIed from Broad
way where the food is the best
in the world.
Alice Faye neglects her bowling
for an evening to join Weldon
Hepburn at the Trocadero, while
Mary Rogers is with a new escort
Ono one seems able to identify
him) but he is neither Owen Davis,
jr.. or Ed. Granger, who have been
alternating Dark-eyed Tamara
sits with the tall, broad-Shouldered
Don Briggs John Steinberg
comes over to inquire whether we
knew that the steaks we have oc-
caSionally had at his place have
been flown in-and that they come
from Lou Davis in New York-the