The Washington times., 1936-12-16
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
-ByL Louis SObOl-
Snapshots at Random! !

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Machon and Joe Jacobs, occupies a
box at the Cotton Club Thursday
night and chuckles with the rest
when Bill Robinson pulls one of
his jibeS at the Hitler regime
Wednesday afternoon on Park
Ave. near 55th-Mrs. Xavier Cugat
and Margot trying to keep a
shrivel-faced Pekingese and q
stately police dog from entangling
. MitZi Green, the lovely and
talented, pleads for a reporter to
take her over to the table, where a
tiny fellow sits at the Versailles
Friday night She meets shy
Jimmy Savo, who tells her he once
held her on his knee when she was
younger and wouldn't mind re-
peating now.
Twenty-One teens with mid
night excitement Wednesday
with Gloria Swanson and Her
bert Marshall attracting chief
attention At q corner table,
flanked by Gilbert and Roger
Wolfe Kahn is Sylvia Sidney in
the raw-that is to say sans tor
tOiSe shell glasses. .. TaniS Mon
tagu, recently publiciZed for jilt-
ing . British swain, enters with
the well known ibrettiSt with
whom her name has been recent
" linked Ed Swazey, just
back from his China Clipper
jaunt, recOunts few tall tales at
the bar with Jack Pearl and
Harry Grabiner as his chief au-
ditOrS Director ward
Hawks, his brother and Dan
Topping sit near by and Grabi-
ner walks over to introduce him.
self as the papa Of June Travis,
whom Hawks directed in a
recent picture .. Jack Krien-
dler Is in q mOr0Se mood
"The Romance" he Sighs, "haS
gone out Of my life-and I'm still
. young fellow"
Later at the Rainbow Room pre-
miere of Peggy Fears, who lures
an enthusiastic response as she
with some talented
sophisticated chants-particularly
her "ziegfeld, Carroll, White
number. The mixed aSSemblage
includes Judith Anderson, Norma
TerriS, Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr.,
Count Covadonga, Helen Menken,
Harry Richman, Clifton Webb,
Libby Holman and Marion Cooley.
To Shatter the rumOr Of the
feud between them, Milton Berle
and Henny YOungman Of the
Yacht Club, settle down at T.
central table in Dawes Wednes-
day night. Tuesday night at
the Kit Kat Club two buxom
ladies crowd around Sidney Lenz
and drive the fellow almost nuts
asking for contract bridge advice
..Only two tables away, unmO-
Tested, sits the new champion
and one Of his opponents in the
recent Vanderbilt match-Atty
Fred Kaplan and Harold Schen-
ken. AT Wednesday nights
premiere Of "The Holmeses Of
Baker Sta 6reary incOnse-
quentiality, amid q drably unin.
terested audience, sits George
Jean Nathan in full swallow.
tail, stiff shirt regalia-Sits
through the three boring acts. :.
'I'm waiting for him to turn"
whispers Kelsey Allen. maybe
he's become q sandwich man for
q Side-line". Ham Fisher and
his beautiful bride, Carolyn
Graham, are StOrk Club diners
Saturday night with Joey Ray
of Hollywood as their guest.
Friday afternoon at Jack an6
a slim, tall, handsome
chap in sports checked brown
jacket and gray slacks rusheS in
for a quick drink at the bar. {.
Louis Reed, eStranged husband of
Marion Snowden. :. Just in that
day from Bermuda-and planning
to go back again at once. {.
Weather too beastly here" he
.(And that reminds
me. Saturday night at the Kit
Kat Club, a group of the French
Casino girls toss a party to
Princess Vanya Nardi, recently
picked as the most perfect Brit.
ish show girl in The French
Casino-"She's going back to her
castle in England" whispers some
one. Which is a giggle. For
the girl with the italian name
picked as tI British queen of a
French she " left yesterday for
her home in the town of her
birth-in Kentucky!D. Louise
Henry buys a few Red Cross seals
from the pretty stationed at
Rueben's Thursday night. "A
few seasons ago Louise herself
was q Red Cross seal saleSgirl at
Reuben'S. ..
Friday night at Jimmy Kelly's
the fan.dance events are inter
rupted to bring out on the floor
before the loud-speaker three
youngsters who have never been
associated with the strip-tease
art. Helen Stephens, great
woman champion Of the OIym.
pics. Alice Arden, pretty Olym-
pic high.jump queen-and
Glenn Hardin, hurdles cham.
piOn. =. Earlier at EI GauchO,
where Dmetri and his pretty
bride, Helen Virgil, introduce a
new ballroom routine and where
Gypsy MarkOff cOnfeSseS a few
of her romantic woes as Bar.
ney Gallant sympathizes. Still
later up town again to invade
the VaIhalla, . Swedish reStau.