The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-09
VOICE OF
Broadway
By Louis SObOI-
Casual Comment!

Iament1ng his betrayal OF the
newspaper craft by cabling coro-
nation yarns to a little Coast mag,
Script, paying his own toll. "A
newspaperman willing to work
without demanding expenses, etc.
that's paragraph stuff =. Neil,
however, is slightly peeved at us,
we have just learned, and only
3 few minutes ago, cable from
him arrived from Havre -. isn't
1t unfair old man keep up rub
when Liberty Magazine announced
long ago I was their sole only
correspondent coronation Paris
fair Windsor wedding"
Equally disturbed by recent
item here is Mrs. Earl Lindsay,
who takes us to task for line
In which we called attention to
the fact that the famed dance d.
rector, Earl Lindsay, was staging
dances although blind !. Mrs.
Lindsay corrects us by assuring
US her husband is not blind-tt
Is merely the nerves of his eyes
are affected from an illness four
years ago, leaving them very weak
but not SightleSS Mrs. Lind
say points out her husband not
only directs dancing but writes
all his own special material, music
and lyrics and designs the COS
TUNES ALI of which is good
news to Broadway, which was
under the impression Lindsay had
lost his sight completely ). We
hasten to shout our hurrahS.
Most generous tippers are
New Workers. Rarely in our
better mite spots does walter
receive less than q dOllar-more
often twO-and If the party IL
large, from SIS to $40 Inter
( esting, therefore, is this extract
of a letter from a waiter in
Hollywood to a night club man.
ager here in applying for q job
GIVE been working at the
Hotel (BiItmOre)," he says in
part. "For a class hotel, the
payOffS were damned small. 1
spent two months in the main :
dining rOOm-alsO worked In the
club (The Bowl Waited ON
many Of the Hollywood big
shots-stars and all. Imagine
having jeanette Macdonald,
Gene Raymond, q wen-known
film writer and five other stars
at one table during q Junior
League affair and getting
stiffed! Yeah-nOt q one paid
off q red cent. 1 worked for
awhile in the Brown Derby and
one day Katharine Hepburn and
two. other girls come in and eat
81 wOrth-and what does Hep
leave me? so cents. I want
to come to New York."
Graceful Patricia Bowman is
currently featured at the Yer
sailles. Only one familiar face
was missing at her opening
Roxy's. Patricia, they say, wept
q little that night--because this
was her first major opening at
which. the man responsible for
bringing her to fame had not ap-
peared. I don't know whether or
not anyone thought of 1t at the
time, but after Roxy had been
eased out Of Radio City Music
Hall Patricia still remained the
prima ballerina. She saw less and
less of the Snowman, but he kept
in. constant communication with
her. She was disappointed the
night of her closing that he wasn't
around for the farewell night. Un.
aware that Roxy had passed away
that day!
Irving Hoffman reveals the in.
side behind the scoop scored by
LOueIla Parsons on the Martha
Raye.Buddy WestmOre elOpe-
ment. LOuella, having gotten the
tip, started to check and double
check before sending the story
out on the wires. Finally she
called Martha's mama who
pleaded ignorance but promised
to find out and call back. Hours
passed and finally with her dead
line at hand, LOuella called
back. 80 yes" purred Mrs.
Raye, "1t,S true all right. I just
=telephOned the Los Angeles
Times and asked them" LOueIIa
almost swOOned for the Times
is the rival paper-but in spite
of this inadvertent tip-Off, she
still managed to beat the town
with the Hollywood page one
story.
Following a paragraph here, one
Of the special writer's for King
Features syndicate called us to
obtain the address Of Belle Living
stone. We had mislaid a recent
letter from her carrying her new
address, and promised to call back
as soon as we located it. We were
unable to find it and were about
to call up Friday afternoon and
inform the writer we would get the
address for him later in the day
when our eyes spotted a P. head.
line in the journal topping the
story giving Bellies newest address
Bellevue Hospital! She had
been taken there in serious con.
dition after being struck by an
automobile.
Marvin Nelson, twice winner Of
the Hearst long-distance swim,
will attempt a two-way nonstop
swim of the English Channel early
in July Doris Dudley Mrs.
jock Jenkins) becomes a mama