The Washington times., 1936-10-02
THE VOICE OF
BrOadWa Y
By Louis SoboI

Snapshots at Random!
Wednesday afternoon on Broad
way heading toward Firty-eighth
Street, the one-time highly public
lied Vera Milton . . The breaks
have gone against this pretty doll
from England Today she's
dime a-whirl girl in a local dance
den Walking west on Forty
fourth-Philip Merivale, rugged
out like a custom tailor'S day
dream In the st. Moritz
lobby reading as she walks toward
the elevator, a tab explosion of the
Vic Oliver-Sarah Churchill tangle
Mango Crangle, formerly Mrs.
Vic Oliver On West Fifty
seventh Street, near Sixth, staring
into a pharmacy window.
With glaring kliegs summing
the entrance and hundreds OF
rubber neckers blockading tn e
short stretch between Broadway
and Seventh on 48th, the Cot
ton Club makes its impressive
rialto debut. For its maiden
Broadway venture, the expert
enced management has assem-
bled the ariStocracy of Sepian
talent, headed by the perennially
youthful. fast-stepping Bill Rob
inson and the hi-de-hi monarch
of swing, Cab Galloway, provided
them with tuneful syncopationS
by MeSSrS. J. Fred CootS and
Benny Davis, thrust their dane
ing feet and gelatinous thighs
into unique Clarence Robinson
routines and the shapely femme
torsos into colorful Veronica cos
tunes. The result is a paprik-
ishly exciting CONNECTION to set
young pulses double-beating and
senile blood pressure to the dan
ger peak. From this rota-
gravurean ola podrida there
emergeS a potential dance mania
to succeed Notwithstanding
called the SuSi-Q and a tantaliz-
ing moan. Frisco Flo" to sup
plant the bearded Minnie the
Moocher". AS Bobby Clark says,
They've got something there"
Such Of Broadway and tempo
rary Hollywood immigrants as
were pewed near enough to the
floorSide to be observed by this
reporter evidently found the Spir
tied Cotton Club revue completely
satisfactory Respondent in tails
and studs which gliStened with the
fleetfooted chocolate-hued Jesse
Owens, who remarked enigmati-
cally several times during the
evening: This suit sure looks like
an Avery Brundage-sure does"
Bert Wheeler, thanked by his fan
Gee, Sally Haines, and Helen Cos
tello, when asked to pose with his
girl for the lensmen, obliged gra-
ciously by showing his two compan-
ious aside and placing an arm
around the pretty cigarette girls
slim waist. The elusive cham
pion. Mr.. James Braddock. was
joined by the not-so-eluSive ex-
champion, Mr.. Mickey Walker.
Wednesday night at 5Oth and
B'way, dapper George Price with
adhesive tape advertising his
bObbed schnOZ At LaRue'S,
Wednesday night. the American
Betty Bryant, whose fOrebearS
came over shortly after the
maiden voyage of the May
flower, asks: Don't you think
wearing my bangs this way
makes me look very Oriental"
=. .Lyricist Larry Hart comments
on song writer's and song writ
ing and finally comes to a con-
cluSiOn: There are lots of good
songs about Arizona but has It
ever occurred to you there isn't
a single song writer in Arizona"
Tuesday night at the Stork Club
Dick Merrill and the round-the-
world ace, Clyde Pangborn, in a
huddle at a corner table over
ginger ale. Frank Hale joins
them. Wednesday night at "21,"
III d DIOOUlLlS HlOOO al a "dAAGoNIC,
Margalo Gilmore. Later at the
Yacht Club, where Nan Black
stone debuts with her hilariously
rowdy ditties. She is forced TO
encore with her famed Isabella
chant at the request Of Wesley
Ruggles. . Hi-spot of the evening
is toe-magic offered by the dim
pied Floria Vestoff Still later at
the Kit Kat, where Julie Podell
has assembled a riotous group Of
Sepian stars. Here three fetching
colorado-clara frills, the Pope
Sisters, blend harmonious voices
and a 16-year-old shapely Dorothy
Saunders thrills the blase with
enticing yodeling.
On Broadway and Fifty-second,
Friday afternoon, Petite Dorothy
Fox mot the dancer) in a flut-
ter. Its a secret-but I'm tell
ing you. I'm getting married Mon
day to Fred Pfeiffer" AT Leon
and Eddie'S Saturday night Leon
exults: II got a dancer finishes
like nothing you ever seen in all
your born life-she's like fresh
flower-ask Della Carroll?".. -.
Della mods: II guess she's okay" -.