The Washington times., 1936-10-08
THE VOICE OF
Broad aV
BY Louis SObOl-
Snapshots at Random! !!

1A1S uLSSSlcSG CTOWQ OF IE1e season
to its brilliant premiere at the
Center Theater. Some of the
feminine customers match the ex,
travagance of the colorfu! scenery
with their own scenic effects.
Notably, Hope Hampton, with her
bizarre Oriental get-up. The or,
Child Of the screen, Jeanette Mac
Donald, hoverS in intimate con-
VerSations with Fred Stone and
his pulchritudinous blosso S,
Paula and Dorothy. During an
1ntermiSsion, Jimmy Walker Ia
ments his thinniSh frame. &.
Thin people never die" consoles
Betty Compton. . Rudy Vallee al
most forgets himself and starts
to below out a hello to us but
checks himself in time and
dashes by. I'm beginning to be-
lieve he no longer cares!. Tai
lulah Bankhead clinging to the
arm of her current fawncy,
Philip Reed.
A youth Of II or 18 ap-
prOacheS the box at the Cotton
Club Thursday night to engage
in animated conversation with
Jim Farley, who beams at the
lad AS he walks away we
notice that the boy wears a
huge Landon buttOn-BOb Mar
tin, nephew of John D. ROcke-
feller, jr. Later at Rainbow
Room for the Sheila Barrett
and Ray Noble debut Nine.
Jeritza is just departing with
Winfield Sheehan Z. E. Ethel
Levey, once Mrs. George M.
COhan, directs a chattering fire
on Prince Alexis ObolenSky...
Robert Montgomery Shoes a
photographer away, pleading
for a chance to relax. The
Barrett wench is in rare form
this evening in her biting Satiri-
cal pOrtraitureS e..
At Jack and Charles. Ernest
Truck and his eStranged bride in
a serious huddle. . both definitely
determined to make the parting
permanent. Playwright Sid y
Kingsley passes, hesitates a Sec
ond-and walks on. He has Just
bought the Truck farm, Many
Waters" in Oakland, N. j..
George White at the Stork Club
with Harry and Marjorie Rosen-
thai, deploreS the trend of the big
ger cabaretS to theft ideas from
the musicals from his own
Scandals" when we play on
the road" he protests, many peo-
pie think we stole our numbers
from the night clubs" Peter
Arno in a dolorous mood. Whats
this about Tin4mie Nansing) and
me splitting! We both take a
night or two off from each other
and the word goes around. No
truth to it,"
Peter Ellis. movie critic for the
class-conscious New Masses"
timidly crossing in front of the
pickets patrolling the Rivoli-to
enter-and review a capitalistic
picture, "Dodsworth" :. Thursday
night, Queen Victoria of Spain,
goes backstage of the Centre
Theater to meet Kitty Carlisle
(still one of the most fetching and
talented starlings in town..
Thursday afternoon, trying to un-
tangle his broad hoof from wad
of gum on the sidewalk, in Shu-
bert's Alley-Alfred Lunt.
A cop ShOves a few of the
unemployed actors away near
the stage-doOr entrance of
LOew's State. "WOtinell,
now," mutters one of them.
"They don't even let you lay
off in peace" Bob Ripley
at Gallagher's Monday night in
a shirt the color of which 1
defy him to describe. Dun
can McMartin, just back from
England, settles down with Bert
Wheeler and Sally Haines at
the Kit Kat. Excuse me a
minute" he chides. "Just
thought of something. I'm 60
ing to call up London and find
out what time it is" In the
VendOme Restaurant Cafe, the
glamorOus beauty of other days,
Mary NoIan-she works there.
Only an hour earlier, a gent
had passed by-without enter
ing-perhapS unaware she was
even there - Frank Tinncy,
whom years ago, when she was
better known as ImOgene Will
son, she had dragged into lurid
headlines with her. Tinney,
incidentally land paradOxically),
makes a comeback by being
starred in a forthcoming revue.
Tuesday night at the Cot
ton Club. In one box, quite
recovered from the shot" which
"kiIled" him a few nights pre-
viOuS, John PerOna. E. And in
the box newt to him, showing
more visible animation than he
had ever revealed in the ring,
Joe Louis.
On w. 57th St., Wednesday,
hurrying toward Sixth Ave. &.
the handsomest woman surgeon
in town (screenable lass-Dr.
Bolan) whose clientele includes
the loftiest dignitarieS of the
Stock Exchange. At El
Gaucho, Saturday night, Lou
Meyers, auto racing king, hints
that he may not enter any of the
races this year but will wait until