The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-05

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walters, doormen, bus boys.
The man with one of the hand.
soonest faces on Broadway is head
waiter of the French Casino
Fred Chiavantone. The man with
one of the homeliest pans on
Broadway is it's most glamorous
shoWman-Sam Harris. A fellow
with the face of a poet is mob
underling. A roly-poly gentleman
with the genial moon-face of a
circus clown is one of the coun-
try's most aStute lawyers, Dudley
Field Malone. A giant who looks
like a king lumberjack is an ami.
able playboy-Guy Loomis. A girl
with the blank beauty of face
glorified by Nell Brinkley is a
rare comedienne and gifted with
unusual neutrality-suspicious. Mar
tin. A baldish gent with eyes Of
a gentle dreamer and the counte
nance of a poet is the operator
of one of the noisiest little swing.
music bistros in town, the Onyx
Club-Joe Helbock. The motherly,
looking, ample-bodied Sophie
Tucker chants ribald dittieS.
Fat faces, thin faces, broad
faces, faces that are angelic,
lecherous, aesthetic, sensual,
amiabIe, cruel, tender, relent-
less, faces of submission, faces
Of power.
For years one sinister face ap-
palled and fascinated me. I met
it in night clubs and occasionally
in theaters. 1t was a face to strike
terror in you-to make you shud'
der. Vaguely, 1 had the idea it
belonged to a ruthless mobman.
1 met him in Hollywood again
four months ago. On the Para
mount lot. Boris Morros intro
duced me to him in the typical
fashion. "Of course, you know so
and So-you know" The fel,
low Is a musical genius-one of
ParamountS' ace composers.
For mOnthS-at SpaSmOdic in
tervalS-I had became conscious
of the face of a blonde show
girl. Dumb face. International
face. They picked her shattered
body up from the pavement in
front Of the Wellington Hotel
last year. She had leaped to
her death-victim of tumultuOuS
emotions within her.
Face of an angel has one girl.
Such beauty as to make you
drop everything at hand just to
stare at her and drink in her
charms. Gods gift to earth
sample of what awaits you in
Heaven. 1t has brought her
film stardOm-that face with its
serene beauty. Yet Hollywood
knows her for what she is.
FaithleSS to husband and lover
alike, Indifferent to her chill
dren, concerned only with the
bizarre pleasure of the moment.
Face Of a nun-shyly aloof, a
slim shapely girl brazenly exposes
her body in all it's beautiful nudity
nightly indifferent to jeers and
cheers alike. Faith Bacon, fan
dancer. Tall, stately with features
Of the born aristocrat-she even
affects a lorgnette-is Gypsy Rose
Lee, among the higher priced bur-
lesque strip tease artists.
The SculEtOred firmnesS of Joe
Louis face, the imperturbability
of Helen Wills Moody, the poetic
dreaminess of Earl Carroll, the
bOyiSh petulance of George
White, the usefulness of Helen
Hayes. Face of a Satyr from
the pages of mythology but the
gentlest, most generous heart
on BrOadway-Dr. Leo Michel.
Tender, dreamer face of John
Anderson, BrOadway's most
cauSic critic. Mild, timid face of
sepian KalOah, scOrchieSt,
. cOOtch queen in town.
Bloated faces on fat bodies, sin
lined faces on girlish torsos, ex-
pectant faces, weary faces-faceS
totally blank. You watch them in
the night clubs. White-haired
playboy face of Tommy Manville,
jr.-he is a playboy. Song-and-
dance face of George M. Conan
he is a song-and-dance man. Face
Of a smart financier-M a r
BoWeS- smartest of Rialtos finan-
cierS. Face of a professional gag
man-Harry Hershfield-a profess
slonal gag man. Face of an artist
james Montgomery Flagg-he is
an artist. Face of an eccentric
idealiSt-Hal Phyfe-most eccen-
trio of the idealiStS. Face of a tenn
peramental movie queen-Kay
Francis-temperamental queen of
the movies. Face of a practical
dreamer-Professor Albert Elm
stein-king of the practical
dreamers.
Faces of nOnentities, faces of
celebrities, smart faces, SNUG
faces, inviting faces, repuIsive
faces. GargOyle-pan of gentle
souled, viciOus-fiSted Tony Can
zOneri; rOguiSh bOy-face of Pat
Rooney; serene loneliness of
ELISA Landi; calm, seIf-COn-
tanned beauty of Ethel Norman;
SenSuOus maSculinity of Harry
Richman; SOmbre. underworld
sickness Of George Raft; face
Of . musical genius tops hand