The Washington times., 1936-11-11
THE VOICE OF
Broad way
BY Louis SObOl-
Snapshots at Random! !

While the Fordham-Purdue duel
was raging inside the Polo Grounds
Saturday afternoon, a group OF
mounted gendarmes assembled II
the open field nearby, set up soap
boxes to form a ring and proceed
to stage an impromptu horse show
They leap boxes, march four
abreast, rear their horses into a
two-legged strut and finally climax
the event with a race down the
field-as hundreds, unable to get
into the Polo Grounds, cheer. u.
Thursday night in front of Lindy's
three Senegambian youths, age
about 25, in a hot jiggity combi.
nation of the Lindy, truckin' and
Susi-Q. The cop comes along and
two of them run off, but the third
holds his ground. {. Don't yo'
tech me with dat dare stick, COP" "
he protests, "Yo' is on'y a city
employe and I is a Federal man
Il is wukking for the gov'ment
Il is w. P. AZ. But the un-
sympathetic cop whacks him on
the rear and he scoots to safety. q.
Swing Lane gains a new rOwdy
bistrO Friday night when the
Glover Club opens on West SD
Street to house the bOisterouS
trio of Jackson, Irving and
Reeve An event signalized by
q minor dramatic interlude
when Jimmy Durante plays the
piano while his former partner,
Eddie Jackson, chants and struts
E. .Durante, now the interna-
tional star. Jackson content to
head an entertaining trio in a
tiny night club. Tuesday night
at La Rue'S, Blonde, Mary Pick.
ford, accompanied by a tall,
dark-haired youth, stops on the
way out to interrupt a touching
tete-a-tete between Merle OberOn
and David Niven. Two Old-tim-
ers in the Green Room of the
Edison Thursday night. D. w.
Griffith, once the czar of all
film directOrs-and Gus Ed
wards, prOtege ferret.
Herman Wassermann, pianistic
genius, interprets modern pop
songs into ponderous classical
melodies before an impromptu
audience at DR.. Leo Michel's Fri
day night at which such diversi.
fled music-lovers are gathered as
a producer, Sam Harris; a clergy
man, Father Connor (who has
written some famed melodies,
too): a surgeon, DR.. Julius Lem
pert, and his bride, the former
FollieS queen, Flo Lempert; musi,
cal comedy and night club star,
Bobbe Arnst; an illustrator,
Cleanthe Carr; composer, Arthur
Swanstrom; a song-czar, Gene
Buck; a photographer, AL Pach; !;
a radio actress, Agnes Moorehead; !;
a Wall Streeter, Harry Silvey-
and others. In the early hours
preceding the dawn, Thursday, at
a night spot. Helene Costello and
young Jack Barrymore Colt occupy
a floorside table and receive the
attention of a whispering couple
at an adjoining table, Miss Addie
Moffett and her brand-new bride
groom. Winky Brooks.
At the premiere Of forbidden
Melody" Robert Benchley haltS
Irving Hoffman in the lobby dur
ing the intermission and mur-
murs drOwsily, as he pats his
yawning mouth, ''I'm working
on a portable folding bed for
dramatic critics. Want to place
your Order?" {. The sisters, Lady
FurneSs and Gloria Morgan
make a striking twinsome Thurs
day night at La Rue's-one all
in white-the other in black
in Spanish mOtif-with a white
mantilla Of Sheerest lace cover
ing the dark hair of One-and q
black mantilla over the head Of
the other. .Marg0t Grahame.
epitOme Of aristOCratic charm
and alOOfneSS, admiring herself
in the mirrOr-at the hOt-dog
stand on Seventh Avenue and
46th Street, Tuesday afternoon!
Mr.. William Gaxton, genial star
OF white Horse Inn" his hand
some bride, Madeline Cameron Gin
theatrical circles considered the
best-dreSSed woman in America)
and Ethel Norman join in the
thunderous and lengthy ovation
which raises the roof when Bill
Robinson intr oduces Wallace
Beery at the Cotton Club, Satur-
day night. Earlier that evening
at the Chesapeake House, Tommy
Lyman spotting Floyd Gibbons
with Hype Igoe, recalls when Glib
bons was his press agent in Paris
back in 1922. ."I used to pay him
off by singing Melancholy Baby
to him" "You still owe me
couple Of choruses," interrupts
Gibbons.
Buried deep among limited
editions at Brentano's Fifth Ave.
store, Wednesday, a scholarly.
looking gentleman-Gene Tun-
ney. That evening at the Yer.
SailleS, Joe Zelli joins the table
where Bob Hague, Jimmy Walker
and Betty Compton are gath
cred and discusses the sad
plight of night club men in what
was once gay Paree. Freddie
Rich and Harry SOsnik, finding