The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-07
THE VOICE OF
Broadly way
BY Louis SObOI-
Album Of Manhattan!

AOSAAS
Album of Manhattan !
1t is no dark secret that Mr..
Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr., once a
son of the idle rich. is now some
thing of a hard working news
paperman. Mr.. Vanderbilt prides
himself on being a dyed-ln-the-
wool reporter, columnist and fea-
tura writer. But other members
of the Fourth Estate may join me
now in one big groan. For we
have Just come into possession OF
a copy of the cable he dispatched
to Rob Wagner of Script on the
Coast-for whom he conducts a
weekly column. Have just been
allotted one of the only five Amer
lean correspondents seats within
Westminster Abbey May twelfth
stop could cable story my expense
that afternoon stop propositions
and punctuations to be filled IN
by YOU if you could hold up Fri
day edition long enough for my
story stop"
could cable story my ex-
penSe"!! That's one for the
books-and 1 don't mean audi
tors!
War Story
Back from Spain, with tales to
chill your blood, comes a friend
who'd rather forget it all. One
story he does tell which rates
paragraphing. One Sunday morn
ing when the Rebel firing on
Madrid had been unusually heavy,
there came one of those periodic
lulls. Suddenly from the Rebel
side came the clear tenor voice OF
a soldier. 1t thrilled even the
Loyalists and when the voice
stopped, from the Loyalist side
thundered applause and shouts OF
More, more" Up to an elevation
in full view of the enemy stepped
the young singer and sang an
other favorite Spanish melody.
Again there was demand for an
encore, and the young entertainer
waved his hand gaily but shook
his head and returned to his gun.
A few seconds later came the COM
mand from the Loyalist side to
fire. Whether or not the young
soldier-singer fell in the battle
which followed, my friend couldn't
tell.
Fallen Beauty
Not so many weeks ago, Mrs.
Bugs" Baer, of the Ziegfeld Girls
Club, wrote this department a note
urging us to call to the attention
of the club any cases where for
mer Ziegfeld girls were in distress.
Here is case No. l: She was one
of the prettiest Of the Glorifyer'S
pet showgirls, with more than her
share of wealthy playboy suitorS.
Instead, she eloped with a nice
young fellow whom she truly
loved-and still does. They were
happy until he contracted tuber'
culosis. For years now he has
been at Saranac. The girl has tried
bravely to keep working and sup
port her three babies. But she's
no longer sturdy-and work is
scarce. And so she and her chill
dren all live in squalid one-room
apartment and very often there
isn't food enough to go around.
And more often there isn't light
because she can't afford to pay
the bills. Mrs. Baer or any of the
ziegfeld girls may learn the name
of their former showmate-by call
ing US.
Topical Tidbits
Friends are wondering what
Marjorie Hutton Davies, wife of
the Ambassador to Russia, means
in her recent letters emphasizing
she will positively spend the entire
winter at Palm Beach :. Indicat-
ing she will not go back to Soviet
land with her husband Band
leader Dick Gaspare. who leaves
the Ambassador to open in the
Mark Hopkins Hotel, in Sanfran,
received a wire from the manager:
Bring two husky bellhopS with you
to carry your instruments and
bags" (Strikes now paralyzing
hotel service in Frisco :. Heloise
Martin, the coed, has applied for
admission to the summer course
at Columbia Pat Schenck, DIR.
of the late Joe wan and Schenck,
is one of the chorus gals in Sea
Legs" now in rehearsal Terry
Lawlor left yesty to fill theatrical
engagements in England and Ire.
land Her first assignment is
May II at the Theater Royal, in
Dublin-where, according to a
clause in her contract, insisted
upon by the theater manager, she
will be billed as Terry OLawlor.
Theater Note
Something of an event, I fancy,
will be the opening of a brand
new theater May pa newsreel
theater on the main level of Grand
Central Station, opposite Track II.
This is something new in railroad
history, especially since it is a pri-
vate project headed by John Sloan,
a member of the New York State
Racing Commission. The theater
inside a railroad terminal will seat
242 people.
Broadway People
The big executive who doesn't
get anything from life-except old
age The cyIIvS whn uorIr tbair