The Washington times., 1936-05-18


For the people who are Swayed
and awed by names Of the stage
or the air, there stiIl remain to
be seen in the flesh the Alfred
Lunts and the Lynn FOntanneS
.. Philip Merivale e. Ina Claire
.OsgOOd Perkins. Jane COwl
You have your Ray BOlger,
your Luella Gear, your Tamara
Geva. Helen Hayes and Ka-
tharine Cornell . Rudy Vallee
:. Milton Berle and Benny
Fields. Belle Baker and Ger
tr1de NieSen. The HOwardS,
Willie and Eugene stick around
:. Block and Sully Jack
Benny and Eddie Cantor. Paul
Whiteman. George and IRA
Gershwin. George s. Kaufman
:. Ben Hecht and Charlie Mac
Arthur. "A dozen or two others
-. "A pitiful handful compared
to the full and abundant crop
Of entertainment and writing
stars Of only q few seasons ago,
And shortly, many of those men,
toned above will leave us for the
"gold-ines" of the West Coast.
MeSsrs. Cantor and Benny are only
part-time Broadwayites now. Mr..
Ray Bolger leaves as soon as his
current assignment is completed
Milton Berle and Benny Fields
are being baited even as this is be-
ing written MeSsrS. GerShwin
viii not be able to hold out much
longer-So fantastic is the sum
now being offered to them. The
list of those who have already
capitulated is staggering You
can't begin to name them all g.
Faces that were so familiar around
Broadway The Marx Brothers
Burns and Allen George
Olsen and Ethel Shutta. Jimmy
Durante who came back to us for
q spell-and now is off again
with a long stopover in England
first Gordon and Revel. Lou
Alter. Gene Fowler. Ann Soth-
ern. The BarrymoreS. Fred
...MacMurray. Joe Lewis {. &.
Martha Raye. Bobby Connolly
Danny Dare. Alice Faye.
John Steinberg. Joan Abbott. E.
Francis Faye. Il pick them from
all fields.
Ella Logan is scheduled to 60
shortly. The Ritz Brothers are
enSlaved by goth Century-FOx
=. The Yacht Club boys divide
their time between Broadway,
London and Hollywood. Abe
Lyman is in Chicago. .VelOz
and YOlanda are out West.
Sheila Barrett is being signed. ..
Helen Morgan remains here-but
leaves again shortly. Lew Gen.
sIer and Leroy PrinZ are back
on Q flying trip-but return to
the Coast in another week or
twO-taking with them more Of
our familiar faces Phil Baker
stays here, it is true-but lately
he has developed the itch and
will Join the procession unless
his radio commitments keep him
here. Lawrence Tibet divides
his time between New York and
Hollywood. The writing pits at
the studios are damned with
the boys who used to hang
around Algonquin, TOny'S and
Twenty One. You scarcely see
Bob Benchley in town these
days-he'S become picture star
=. SO has Irwin Cobb. The
Fred Stones have migrated. :.
Even the pretties who were
among the more obscure here
but so nice to look at and talk to,
to be with and listen to =. Little
red-headed Iris Adrian now a Hal
Roach starting Anita Count
han, renamed Colby. going places
with RKO Patricia Wilder with
RKO Mary Lou Dix with Co
lumbia Eunice Healy, Terry
Lawlor, Agnes O'Laughlin, Norma
Taylor, Barbara Blame, Peggie
Page Marion Martin and Aitzi
Haynes get their tests next week
and perhaps will be on their
waySout, too Doris Dudley
leaves as soon as her Theatre
Guild commitment is fulfilled .
Hazel Forbes spends almost 10
months a year on the Coast i,
Herbert Fields, Phil Regain,
Irving Caesar, Francine Larri-
more, Lew Pollock, Jimmy Nc
Hugh, Dorothy Fields and her
veteran dad, Lew FieldS-you can
keep picking names out Of the air
names that belonged to people
whose faces were to be seen on
Broadway People who used to
furnish Broadway commentators
with their material.
George M. COhan remains
among the die-hards and true
Sam Harris spends only
brief periods on the Coast. :.
Irving Berlin is still q New
Yorker, but he takes many
too many leaves of absence. :.
Ted HuSing and Graham Nc
Nance remain on their posts
here. But the old gang who
used to gather on Thursday
nights at the Algonquin for the
weekly poker SesSi0n-have
migrated en- masSe Walter
Connolly, Nanny Jeff, Howard
Benedict, MOrTiO Ryskind. =.
Remaining here stilI are Rus.
sell Grouse, Frank p. Adams
and yours fOreVerafter. Harry