The Washington times., 1936-03-09

and atfable Harry Brand OUT
side bearded legionnaireS and
few wounded prisoners paraded-
to lunch A few tables away,
dapper Jack Haley in makeup tan
sat, pronging spaghetti :. At still
another table, Buddy De sylvia,
slightly sleepy-eyed, brooded over
q plate of tomato soup In
our corner, the conversation flew
fast and furious Stories
chiefly about Jack Dempsey {.
Mark Kelly, until recently the
Coasts most famed sports col
umniSt, remembered his long
standing feud with the champ :. {.
When Dempsey and Kearns had
split, Mark had split, too-Sticking
with Kearns >. Came day when
Dempsey was finishing up training
for his jouSt with Tunney {.
Kelly had gone on a tour OF the
gin-spctS and by 2 in the morn
ing was tanked to the Adams ap-
pie He ordered his cab over
the hotel where Dempsey was
stopping "Get Dempsey on
the phone" he directed the clerk
"Mr. Dempsey's asleep-1
can't wake him" Get him
on the phone; tell him if he comes
down I'll knock his +eeth through
the back of his fat neck" :. The
clerk timidly obeyed E. Dempsey
responded sleepily o.. What did
he say?" demanded Kelly -. He
said, sir, okay-you can have the
title for "a hours, but please take
care of it-he'n need 1t after that. :"
Jim Tully Is talking. "Be
sure and call Frank Scully, Sun
day-we're all going over to
Harry Carey's ranch, and
want YOU especially to meet ].
M. Kerrigan. There's guy for
you-that Kerrigan. I'm using
something about him for one Of
the tag lines in a chapter in my
next bOOk-but you go ahead
and use it. We're at a banquet
all Irish-sOlid Micks. Kerri-
gan murmurS: "Jim, these Ir1sh'
shure, they're a wonderful peo-
ple. A kindlier race never tore
q man apart. . Tully recalls
his early days as a $35-a+week
slave in the Paramount pub
licity d artm n t.. "EEinOr
GIynn was under contract. They
were making all that fuss about
Three Weeks I looked through
the files and 1 see a lot Of pub
licity stuff under her by-line-
all about what she thinks of sex
how and why she came to
write Three Weeks So l shoot
It out to a movie magazine un-
der her by-line-and collect in
all close to $780,"
Jean Hersholt stops by the table
., Man of the hour since his re-
markably faithful portrait of DR..
Dafoe, in THE Country Doctor"
IA few weeks ago." he re-
marks, I'm an old-fashioned
Canadian doctor-now I'm an
Austrian farmer-how the times
keep changing!" Gregory Ratoff
joins him. Ratoff, the beard of
the legionnaire, is also directing
Hersholt in the new picture. "Tur-
moil". He ruShes from his acting
assignment in Under Two Flags
away from the trenches-to the
peace and quiet of the farm scenes
in Turmoil" where, instead of
taking directions, he gives them
This is the play he brought
over from Europe and planned to
use as a starring vehicle for him,
self. Outside, through the win
dow, we watch a long-haired gent
In a black, wide-brimmed hat walk
by slowly. He wears long black
clerical type coat. whats that
guy made up for?" we ask. .
Harry Brand takes a squint . .
"He doesn't belong to our lot. He's
visiting. That's Jan Kubelik."
Tully recalls the dinner given
by Wrestling Promoter DarO in
honor Of Mark Kelly. Away in
back in the the huge hall sits
w. G. Fields, who heckles DarO
every time he starts to talk .
The promoter, irritated, finally
shouts: "Hey-whO's dat bum
back dere? 'TrOw him out"
Fields stands up Mildly, he
raises a hand in protest, and he
draws: "Sir, I'm no bum. Not
o bum, sir, just a vagabOnd, Sir''
''HOw did dat bum get in here?"
raSpS DarO Friend" replied
Fields. 'T'm a stranger - who
saw the lights - just saw the
lights, friend, and came in" {.
The conversation SwerveS to
Gene FOwler-hiS various writ
ing exploits and bizarre expert
enCeS here Something, too,
about his latest poem, copies Of
which are at premium. They re-
call his first run-in with an Of
ficiOus Overling He submits
q script which the supervisor
reads, shaking his head in dis
approval every so often, until he
comes to one line, wh en- he
stops, looks up, frOwns, and re-
Dukes: zone thing, Mr.. Fowler,
you will have to learn with this
organization. We stand for no
filth here" What are you
talking about? What do you OBJ
ject tO?" "This-it1l have to
70 out" The Objectionable
word was "hypOchondriac" .