The Washington times., 1936-10-24
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
By Louis SoboI
Diary Of a
CoIyumist's Pup

CoIyumist's Pup
"WhtSkey" continues his reUelG,
tons:
ThurSday-Big Moment tells
them today he had a strange
experience at the Cotton Club
It appears a nice looking young
fellow, crooked to the gills, walks
over to him and he says to the
boy: THAT stuff'll catch up with
yu, kid, if you don't lay off"
The kid says, $50 what, mister,
so what? You know who I am?
I'm land he gives his name) {.
Yeah, the son of land he gives
his papa'S name). He gave my
mother a tossing about and acted
like a good all-around louise all
his life and now he's in a nut
house with his brain eaten away
because of the way he lived. And
I inherited it, see-it's coming my
way, too-So I'll beat it to the
punch" The Queen says, 20, my
Lord, isn't that pathetic? Why
it's like Ghosts it gives me the
shivers. Why, I though you said
he was all right again-I mean
the father" and he says, well,
I'd heard he was, but I guess
not"
Friday-The Lady is babbling
about a play they've seen the
night before-some funny name
"Tovarich" L guess you call it.
"Oh," she gusheS, TT was so beau
tiful-so divine. The courage of
them-two against the world,
that's what it was-and satisfied
just to be servants after all
they'd been" AnG he grumbles,
year, in plays-you like it when
people are satisfied-but it's only
in plays" She says, There's no
idealism in you at all. Didn't
Paulette Goddard look pretty at
Ell Morocco! I could swear saw
a wedding ring on her finger.
Do you think she and Chaplin
are really married." He says,
IT don't know-all I know is
that wire I got from the Coast
saying she and Chaplin we're Civ
ing each other the ice before she
left" And she says. well, that
makes me believe maybe they are
marrie d-maybe they've been
married a long time, if that's
the way they acted"
Saturday-nOt much excite
ment today. He left the house
early and told her he'd pick
her up at dinner and they'd
go to Samson RaphaelSOn's
play, "White Man." She says
ooh, 1 like him-he'S so clever.
1t ought to be a good play.
He's got such a darling wife"
Sunday-He puts on an act of
being very amused over something
he's read in one of his rivals col
umns. "Ha, ha, ha," he laughs,
Hes taking another whack at
me. I guess I've got him worried
says I had a line he had two
weeks ago. o migosh, when I
think of all the lines he picks up
after I've run them-maybe he
amt reading me either" She
says, 20, for heavens sake, you're
not going to start that all over
again-what's the difference? If
he wants to be a baby, you don't
have to. too" He says, "It isn't
t .at-only nobody has right to
make me yawn. I don't like to
yawn." She says. Neither do I
but the Lord knows, if you keep
on this way. I'll yawn right in
your face. Have you read that
wire that just came? Who's it
from?" He says, How can I tell
until I read it?" And he opens it
up and it's from some one named
Blanche Yurka. She's bawling him
out, it seems, for something he
wrote about he' going to make a
different version of LySistrata.'
She writes she isn't translating it
from the Greek because she
doesn't know the Greek alphabet
and she doesn't intend to tour in
a snow-white version because she
does not consider the word sex
filthy as he says, and thinks it's
an admirable institution and that
besides she quite agrees with the
adjectives about Gilbert Seldes'
version, seeing as she played it for
five months. The Queen says: IT
don't blame her for bawling you
out after what you wrote. Why
do you write such things?" And
he says, For the luvomike, you
don't think I make these things
up out of whole cloth? I must
have gotten it from some one I
thought knew what he was talking
about" oh" she says, II get it
one Of those authentic Confiden-
tial sources. Excuse me, I feel
another yaWn coming on"
MOnday-She'S bawling him
out because of something he
said last night to Archie Mayo.
you've got a Broadway mind
or you wouldn't have talked
that way" she says. "And his
wife right there" He says,
"Well, what did / say that was
so awful? 1t was all kidding
men like t. kid that way and
Archie'S regular. He's one of