The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-01
THE VOICE OF
Broad way
BY Louis SObOl-
Snapshots at Random !


at "21". FLEW 5000 miles
broke my neck to get there-and
what? Nobody in town. 1t amt
the Broadway I used to know" -.
Tomorrow" purrS Cinemabelle
Betty Lawford, Il fly back to Hol-
lywood" George Raft at Leon
and Eddie's means: Il fly all the
way here to stay a while and l
get orders to come right back.
This is my whole life-Broadway-
they speak my language here-out
there what do you get?", "A
swell living" offers Eddie Davis.
The late Pancho Villas youngest
and lovelieSt daughter, Celia, sur
veys the beaming beauties at the
Riviera and murmurS: 80 happy
American girls. If I'm a man I
love only American girls" How
about American men?" Pooh
they not kind and loving like
the Frenchmen and the Mexican
men" AT the Black Cat Club:
Look" I said to him, Il am loyal
to you like a puppy, and what do
you do-you treat me like dog,
and he seq to me: You get in my
hair so I washed up with him."
Ziegfeld beauties of the past
assemble at Sherry's-the beau.
tiful, the glOrified, the glamOr-
Gus darlings of only a few years
ago Some still beautiful
some stout and matronly-Some
who give evidence of having
been buffeted about since drop
ping out of the limelight
Stately Gypsy Rose Lee exhibits
an angry brUiSe on her arm :.
Vernon McFarlane gave me a
pet monkey and he bit me-sO
1 bit him right back. It's the
only way to teach them a les
son" Dark-eyed beautiful
Nita Naldi purrs: I'm the oldest
Ziegfeld graduate here-they ex-
pected me to come in on crutcheS
I see Myrna 10y is married.
That gives you an idea how any
thing can happen-T don't mean
her getting married. mean
only few years ago was the
star of q picture and she had
a little obscure part in it-nOw
look. She's a big star-and a
real One-and a very pretty one,
too" :. Pert Ada May, Shapely
Faith Bacon, blonde Caryl Berg
man, Slim Beryl HALEY NOW
Mrs. Falkenheimer), pretty
Dorothy Brown Fox, stately Elsie
ROssi. Jean Robson, Anita Rice
YOrkS. Shelly Janis the
morgues of the newspapers are
crowded with pictures of these
girls who no longer have a Zieg-
field to glOrify them.
Charles Schwab standing in the
lobby of the Savoy Plaza, speaks
loudly enough for an eavesdropper
to overhear: you can't tell about
elections. They're like wars-like
prize fights. Your opinion is as
good as mine. All I can do is
guess -. But Mr.. Schwab's
guess doesn't carry to the listening
ears. George Bourne stands near
the bar at the Bali Cafe, with
corSage of gardenias in one hand
and his watch in the other. He
studies his watch and finally
snaps. .. We'll, she's pretty late. ..
I'm not going to wait" and hands
the gardenias to Jim Moriarty. .
Here, sweetheart, these are for
you" -. Moriarty grins and walks
over to Estelle Taylor, donating
the corsage to her Estelle al
ready has flowers. however. and
she in turn presents the gardenias
to the pretty cigarette girl. The
Barclay Warburtons, jr, watch
the little scene with keen amuse-
ment. (The same Barclay War
burton who later went out to Har-
old Ross estate, set off sky
rocket to announce his arrival
and was seriously burned when the
rocket flew into his face) =.
Tamara Geva and Mark Hanna
in front of the Strand studying
poster showing Kay Francis as
Florence Nightingale. 1T is law
fly, think, to be a nurse-as-
pashly a pretty nurse" murmurs
the dancer.
Arthur HammerStein in the
Edison Green Room, protests
that Coast cOlumnists are still
making the mistake of insisting
it's Oscar, End, who is turning
out a biography of the late Os-
car Hammerstein A little old
lady stops Lynn FOntanne
Thursday night as she was en-
tering baCkstage of the Shubert
Theater and offers luck charm
The actress Spurns the charm
but presses a coin into the old
wOman'S hand E. . Snapshots.