The Washington times., 1937-04-01
2 THE VOICE OF
Broad way
BY Louis SObOl-
Diary Of a CoIyumist's
Pup!

Pup!
Thursday-The Big Lament has
been up all night playing 10-card
rummy and is running his blood
shot eyes over the morning rags
and grumbling over everything.
"Drivel," he mumbleS, these guys
are writing nothing but drivel."
Later, the Queen says: Il don't
see Amster SpirO around nights
like he used to be-" And Feeble
wit says: Hes been working on
that newspaper game of his
'Flash-NewS.' He showed it to
me last night and IFS tremen-
dOus. TIN sell like hOtcakes and
put him in the heavy dough.
TIN be bigger than Monopoly"
The Lady signs. Some wOm-
ems husbands are so clever" she
says. "Why didn't you think OF
that game? You've been in the
newspaper business almost Is
years." And he snaps: Il know
guys whO've been in jail rs
years, but they never became
warden"
Friday Hairless tells the
Queen that John Dewey and Di'
ane, the dancer with Dario, will
part for good by getting divorce
in Mexico sometime next week and
then Diane will marry Clarence
Gould, who was once Lorraine
Manville'S husband. II feel so
bad about that" says the Lady,
because I remember how mad
they both seemed about each other
when they were married. I heard
something yesterday at the hair
dresSer's that maybe would inter
est you" And he says: What the
devil could interest me at a hair
dresser Il don't believe in those
hair restorers. I'm wise to that
fuzz they raise for a few weeks"
.. "It'S news I'm talking about"
she says. This girl is Swedish and
she says she comes from the same
home town with Greta Carlo and
knows the whole Gustafson FAM
lily. Well, according to her, Greta
was married to a hometown boy
who worked in a drug store, and
she says, as far as she knows,
Greta is still married to him"
sounds like a cOkey'S dream"
he says. Forget it." And the
Queen says: 81 don't know about
that. When 1 told you two or
three years ago about something
Iheard at the manicurist's about
Mary PickfOrd and Buddy Rogers
having some sort of romance,
you laughed at me then, and a
few weeks later one Of the other
boys broke it. And l was with
you when a press agent we met
at one of the night clubs told
you that Jack Barrymore was
running around with school
girl named Elaine Jacobs and
you laughed in his face and
week later the papers were full
of it-Only she had changed her
name to Barrie"
"Awright, awright," grOwlS Big
Thought; 81 will run a line about
it-just to satisfy you
Saturday-They went to see a
play last night, "Chalked Out,
which Warden Lawes wrote. Dunn
bolo thought it was hokey-but
plenty exciting and he seemed es-
pecially impressed with the real
istic prison scenes but he said the
warden had painted picture that
made prison life look like almost
a bed of roses, which wasn't the
way the boys who wrote to him
from Sing Sing described it.
They had dinner at a place
called Morris in the village, which
they were very fond of because
they know Ma Mort and her two
boys, Ed and Albert. ut is the
most peaceful place I know"
says the Queen, land 1 hope it
don't get spoiled by lot of your
Broadway friends coming down
here" And he says: Half the
people you saw in there last
night are Broadway peOple-Only
they behave better"
Sunday-He was over at Johns
barber shop yesterday afternoon
In Twenty-One with Charlie Mac.
Arthur, Mark Hellinger and Ted
Husing and they tried to get him
to use a machine which is sup.
posed to positively grow hair, and
which Macarthur had installed
there because he says it's bringing
back his hair. Drizzle-pan sneered
at the contraption and they tried
to force it on his head, but he got
away. Finally, Mark says: Lets
drink to hair-lots of it," So they
drank a toast. Then they drank
q toast to John, then one to Es-
telle, the manicure girl; then one
to Musings broadcasts and Hell
fingers Sunday page and Mac.
Arthur'S new screen play. When
Sour-Puss looked up it was after
midnight and he had the cap Of
the hair-raising machine on his
head and Husing was taking
candid camera shots Of him. He