Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-01

NEW OtNTN, NldN - iiObtSAAN'
while strolling: How the imagina-
ton wanders when one sees a trunk
all crisS-croSSed with foreign labels!
Opening a bottle of pop named
Sonia Henie. Helen Morgan al
ways looks as though she was just
ready to bust out in a good cry.
Add biggest of blunders: After
building New York's flock of sky
Scrapers, regional experts discover
they are impractical, Why not an
American conductor for the New
York Philharmonic? Most durable
of the Hollywood Romeos: Gilbert
Roland. The audiences that leave
Ethan Frome' unsmiling.
John Drew's kin, Jack Devereau,
is a nifty dresser, too. With flow
ing hair and a paunch, Dwight
Fiske could pass for Gilbert White.
Last stand of the cuSpidor-AlaSka.
Who remembers when Baked Alas
ka was hot diggedy as a desert?
Town Hall ladies who look like those
Helen Hokinson drawings.
Nothing freshens up Manhattan
like a sudden shower. Never knew
a fellow with a few drinks who
wouldn't recite Robert w. Service
if asked Appropriate nickname
for Raymond Clapper: The Bell
Ringer. For the Looks the Same
as he Did Is Years Ago Club-Earl
Benham. Bob Burns for my money
as top radio hill billy
Stages hard luck lady: Ethel
Barrymore. Wonder if Alex Yokel
knows Axel Stokel? Good trick if
you do it: Refrain from filling up
en- hors d'oeuvres at those Swedish
restaurants. Every time I occupy
a bench in Central Park, the gnats
put on one of those group inter
est" things.
Broadway with all its upSetS for
Evelyn Nesbit has not yet complete
ly untruSSed her. She came back
recently to hostess in not too OPP
ulent biStro. While the years and
successive diStreSSeS.ha obliterated
much of the beauty once hers, she
is still personable and sparks faint
ly the glamour that set her apart
from the usual chorus girl. Her
philosophy is thoroughly Nietzsche-
an, her reflections darkly bitter but
she manages to perk gay enough
when necessary. Her dominating
pride is in the air exploits of her
capable and StalWard son Russell.
To one reporter she expressed de
sire to live but one year"
In contrast. Harry ThaW seems to
have completely lost his taste for
caper along the srtect where he SC
long cut intermittent SWathS. The
last time he was seen he was having
quick bite at a drugstore counter
after the theater near the Astor
preparatory to motoring to his eS-
tate in Pennsylvania. He has taken
on weight and his heavy shock of
hair is snow white. But his eyes
are still starey!
The times and economic conse-
quenceS have also entirely obliter-
ated the flaShy type of spender who
used to strut the White Way with
his trail of cleaners. 1t takes hefty
dough these days to bulge the eyes
of lockers on. In the old days the
man who spent 5000 in a place was
eXtravagantly bowed to his carriage.
To make that sort of a splash with
present prices would set one back a
grand. I was with a gentleman in
one of the expensive spots a recent
evening for dinner. He called the
waiter captain and explained he
had little check he had not paid
for party on previous evening
He paid it with four 500 bills and
received back only a few small bills
That casual transaction would have
been worth stick in The Telegraph
20 years ago.
SentimentaliStS are worrying
about the condition of Maxfield
Parrish's Old King Cole. Those who
used to glance up to the old rasca
at the Knickerbocker Bar and were
inspired to just one more are fret
ting about its shabbineSs. 1t now
hangs in room bearing its name
at the st. Regis and is in sad neec
of conditioning. A fellow re-
porter standing before the painting
one day observed to Frank O'Malley
You know that picture looks mucl
better after a few drinks Said
O'Malley: What doesn't?'