The Washington times., 1936-07-16
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
BY Louis SObOl'
PrattIe and TattIe!

ner has resumed his courtShip Of
Mary Lou Dix on the Coast. ;.
Walter Kane, Zeppo Marks part
ner, and Anita Counihan COLBY
are Purring and Cooing. Anita,
by the way, has had her contract
renewed by R-K-O. Mort Bern,
who preceded Weldon Hepburn
as Jane Eichelbergers spouse,
merged in the pianisSimo manner
a few weeks ago with Joan
Rouers E. Ramon Ramos and
Scotch Canary Ella Logan have
rekindled the flame =. Mack
Gordon and Harry Revel intro
duced their latest Song-a po-
tential hit - tagged Looking
Around Corners For You''-at the
Grossinger Playhouse - Sample
lines: Searching for trace of
you, to see that lovely face of
you" "A new form of circulation
racket: You receive a note signed
by a girl. The article referring
to us is in (name of mag, page
37". You buy the publication
and turn to the page only to
find some piece about parlor
games or how to kill flies. Add
Hollywooduets - Renee Coleman
and Antonio Moreno.
Ruth Coleman, famed and pref
tiest of the cigarette ad girls, has
been signed by Paramount
From Geneva, William Gaxton
writes to this department an &C.
count of the incident during which
the italian reporters Kissed SelaS
sic . What amused him later was
a visit to the International Labor
Building, where, invading the
room dedicated to Samuel GomperS
by American labor men, he dis
covered that the pictures on the
walls were all Japanese, revealing
their progress in labor and manu-
featuring. AT the time he sent
the letter, incidentally, he was un-
aware his closest friend, Thomas
Meighan, had passed on. Broad
ways famous hat-check girl, Renee
Carroll, of Sardi'S, leaves today
for the Coast, where she will
gather material for a book-her
second.
Ten Eyck Van DuSen, famed
as the Army poet, became a
pappy last wk. . Tony Martin,
who used to be Frances Lang
fOrd's romantic shadow, is now
signing over Alice Faye. Edith
WilkerSOn reports from Holly
wood that Eva Tanguay, half
blind, crippled and very sick is
trying to live on S5 a week that
is being sent to her. ."She
needs help and needs it quick"
writes Miss WilkerSOn. pride
and Prejudice" which Jane
Austen wrote by herself-in long
hand, no lesS-iS to be made
into a picture by Metro, which
has hired four outstanding writ
erS to do the job. Frances Faye
is the current attraction at the
Famous Door in Hollywood while
Louis Prima is on tour. The
Sherman BiIIingSleyS plan to
leave on or about August 1st for
a. months tour of EurOpe-the
StOrk Club hosts first vacation
in seven years. 222 words can
be fashioned from the name
Vanderbilt-try it &. Still one of
the genuinely cOlOrful places in
Manhattan Janet of Frances
operated by the former vaude-
vile star.
Ralph Jay Santobuono, mind
reader at Leon and EddleS, JOINS
the -pushers any day now.
A pathetic appeal from Jerry Rose,
former theater manager and news
paperman. He's in the U. S. Vet
erans Hospital, Whipple, Arizona,
and all he requests is that former
friends write to him. Recon-
mended: Soft chants by Ann
Courtney at the Montclair's
Casino-in-the-A ir. r a d i o and
stage thrush Ann Lester and her
spouse, Lou Licker, have recon
ciled-again . =. We've discovered
what 'ssbecome of some of the Cot
ton Club principals-Cora La
Redd, Leitha Hill and about two
dozen others are in a hot spot
known as Rainbow Gardens, just
outside of Monticello Incident
ally, Herman Stark is trying to
persuade Gordon and Revel to
write the new Cotton Club show,
which opens with Cab Galloway
in the Fall, But the chances are
slim-Hollywood assignments ESQ
gees a pic) will prevent. George
kaufman and Groucho Marx were
discussing a couple of cinema pro-
ducerS who have been feuding for
years. Queer" murmured Kauf-
man, they have so much in COM
mon". What, for i n st an e?"
asked Groucho. u. AN accent"
snapped kaufman. >.
Marya Names (ex-Mrs. 10
MielZiner) former drama critic