The Washington times., 1936-12-28
THE VOICE OF
Broad way
BY Louis SObOI-
d Diary Of a CoIyumist's
Pup!
("Whiskey" BareS his SoulU

Something up his sleeve, but it's
hard to tell only I recognize the
symptoms. He's been nice to
everyone around the house even
me and the other day when he
giggled over some story the Queen
told him. she got UP and felt his
head. Something's in the wind.
They were discussing a play
they saw last night, you Can't
Take 1t With You" and Sweet
Girl says ut just goes to prove
you don't need money or any
thing to be really happy If you
just follow your own inclina-
tons and don't hurt anybody
else" and he says: "Well, it
looks good and sounds good on
the stage, but you take a
Screwy family like that and
put it in any real home and
they'd all land in the gOOf-
house. Now you know you
don't have to have live snakes
in fish bowl to be happy" and
Queen says, "YOu silly, you
miss the whole point. That
was only meant to be symbolic.
He liked snakes so he had them
in the house which means he
did whatever he pleased and
look how happy he was. You
know" she says, 81 was think
ing that would be just the kind
Of . man Willie Howard would
be If he had a home. He'd
have snakes in the living room.
bet GrOuchO Marx has snakes,
tOO-and everyone says he's
very happy because he does
things that make people think
he's crazy"
81 think" says Limpjaw, "Pll
bring home a snake tonight"
mo, you don t." snaps the
Lady, you keep your Broadway
pals out of this house"
Wednesday, had a long con-
verSation with my Bedlington
honey, Bibsie, this morning. She's
not stuck on the people she lives
with either, she says; She says
her lady is very stuck up and has
a sweet little baby but hardly ever
sees her she's so busy being social,
and the other day she and another
very social stuck-up friend were
walking down the street and sud-
denly her lady says, Heavens,
I'm almost sure that's my baby
In that carriage we just passed. I
could swear she was" And then
her friend says, Isn't that mar
velous? How do you know?" and
her lady says. II recognize the
nurse"
"HOw," 1 asked Bibsie, would
you like to run away with me?"
and she looks at me cOldly and
says, "Pah-leeze!" and walks
back to her maid. No dice there,
guess.
Thursday They're discussing
Tommy Manville and his romances,
and she says, you always seem
to favor him a little. can't under
stand it when you think of the
silly things he does" He says:
well, know the other side of
the fellow. Whenever some kid
was in jam with a hotel bill or
needed money for an operation or
something, I could always count
on him coming through and it's
the one time he never wanted pub
licity, so I figure if he wants to
act little dizzy with the danes,
that's his business" and she in
terrupts and says: "Well, if you're
q good friend of his, you'd tip
him off to avoid publicity on his
romanceS. Some day he's going to
bump into the wrong girl" Driz-
Zlepan says, "He is Shrewder than
you think" She shifts: There
isn't a man born who's Shrewd
enough when a girl, dumb or
clever, makes up her mind to take
him"
Friday-A George Blumenthal,
who wrote a book about Oscar
Hammerstein, has written him
letter telling him that he read in
his column about that statue of
Hammerstein which is in a second
hand shop and that he went down
there and put deposit on it.
He also gets letter from q
woman who asks him why no
body has mentioned that the
Church of England, which is the
Duke of WindsOr's severest critic,
came into existence originally
because Henry the Eighth wanted
to divorce Catharine to marry
Anne BOleyn. Also another let
ter informing him that the
SIS. A." to whom Lawrence dedt
Gated his "Seven Pillars" and
whom no one seems able to iden-
tify, was the beautiful daughter
of q family named AarOnsOn
who were in the British Secret
Service stationed near Haifa,
and the girl, who was named
Sarah AarOnSOn, was a spy who
shot herself when they were
about to arrest her. The letter
says Lawrence was madIy in
love with her.
He's reading all these letters to
the Queen out loud and she says
in mild tone, Seems to me all
this business of having to stay out
late to get news is a state of mind
with you. So far most of the
news you ever tell me about which
I see in your column is something
which came in letters or somebody
phoned in to YOU"
He snaps, ooh, that's what
you think. wouldn't be getting
these letters if / didn't On around