The Washington times., 1936-12-04
! THE VOICE OF
Broadway
BY Louis SoboI.
Casual Comment!

about the place, and during the
tour a member of the management
brought out one of the old gold
back $40 notes recalled by the
Government "Is it against
the law to have theSe?" Hoover
was asked Il don't think
so," the Oman replied. But I'd
take the number, if I were you
and the name of the man who
gave it to you-just in case"
This conversation took place in
the kitchen Whereupon the
colored boys, IL of them, who
work around the pots, asked to see
the bill Monday, they played
the number on the note-and of
all preposterous miracles-the
number hit That is, each
received 600 to for the amount
he put up Mr.. Hoover, in
other words, upholder Of the law
was indirectly responsible for a
violation of the law which bans
policy-but the dozen sepian boys
are the wealthier
Mr.. Dick Merrill is easily
BrOadway'S No. air pilot
Ask any of the boys along the
ThOroughfare with whom they
would like to take their air jaunt
and the answer will always be
with Dick Merrill" In
the early pre-dawn hours of
Monday, Mr.. Merrill, having
Just returned from flight to
Florida, went into Dawes for a
snack, as the saying goes
He deposited his aviatOr'S cap
with the hat check girl
From tables rose song pluggerS,
music publishers, a college boy"
or two and even q newspaper
man, who rushed toward the hat
booth and fought with one an
other as each grabbed the avia-
tors cap and tried it on his own
head-and posed
Young Mr.. Glenn Hardin has
had trouble with his name all
through his young and fairly
eventful life The spelling -.
A simple name, but people never
seemed to be able to get it right
He decided to make that name
stand for Something-and he die
He became an outstanding
athlete and was the chief member
of the All-America track team OF
1884 which toured Europe, shat
tering all sorts of records -. For
his own achievements in the 400
meter hurdles, the French Athle'
tic Union struck off special
medal to be worn on a watch Tor
But Mr.. Hardin rarely wears
It or shows it For the medal
is inscribed to "Glen Harding"
Currently in town are cluster
of fair Hollywood buds, a Warner
Bros. contributions b u t e S
plucked from the corsage of pull
chritude glorified in the forthcom-
ing God Diggers of 1887" The
little girls have been feted and
shown the town 1t was the
happy inspiration of Press Agent
to gather the little dolls, bring
them to the Paradise, which he
represents, and SOW them night life
as 1t should be shown =. The in
vitation was accepted and the cute
"Gold Diggers' arrived and sat
at the table reserved for them .
But something of the joy OF the
occasion faded for young Mr.. Rus
sell when among them he recog-
nized five young blossoms who had
in their time been members of this
very same Paradise chorus.
The 145th annual issue of the
Old Farmers Almanac is out,
dedicated to the four seasons of
the year, and I pity you pro-
vincialS of Broadway who haven't
bought a copy For this is
like no other almanac :. What
other almanac devOteS a page to
"Charades," a couple of pages to
''POetry, Anecdotes and Pleas
antries," to say nothing of con-
tributiOnS by Courtney Ryley
Cooper, Joseph C. Lincoln, Rob
ert p. AShley-and particularly
good old Jim Brown, who pays
10 cents each for statesmen and
"save my customers about a mil
lion dollars a year." You will
also learn that the Americans
have always been the greatest
consumers of eggs and that in
December the farmer should have
his bins and cellars filled with
the fruits of his handiWOrk, and
this in turn may we'll contribute
to his peace of mind and salts
faction. 1t is safe to assume,
although there is no mention of
1t in the almanac, that in De-
cember the cOlumniSt would have
his spindleS stuffed with nice fat
paragraphs to bring him through
the long, barren Winter.
Milton Berle knows a poor Broad
wayite who suffers horribly from
insomnia because he can only
count up to 10 sheep -. At the sec
ond of the Noel Coward openings,
I sent a note over to DR.. Nathaniel
Lief .. He puzzled over the scrawl
for a few seconds and then came
over to protest he couldn't read
my script, which reminded DR.. Lief
of an Uncle Joe Cannon story :.
One day he scribbled off a note to
the head of a congressional inves-
tigating committee . The fellow
tried desperately to read it, gave
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