Evening star., 1937-03-29
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
ENVOY.

ENVOY.
THE Dennis Hoeys-he is the &C.
tor and she is his wife-are
going to have very good story
L to tell OF Washington society
when they 60 home to London.
1t Is about jittery woman who at
tended rather grand function with
the Hoeys ct one Of the larger diplo-
matte establishments in Washington
1t was fine place in which to get
lost and the lady got extremely so,
especially when she saw her face in
mirror, decided it needed powder and
went to look for the powder room.
No one knew where it was and the
more she asked the more confused she
became
Finally, taking firm grip on her
self, she surveyed the room to find
precisely the right person to ask.
After studying the various faces, she
selected one which she was posi-
tive wore the expression of the per-
feet servant, one who knew every
thing
She walked over and asked her ques-
ton.
The man said he did not know
And why, indeed, should he-being
the Ambassador of one of the powers
that always are called great" in the
newspaper headlines?
FUTURE.
And, speaking OF great powers,
England probably Would haze
Quaked in its shoes had it been at
certain local thedter the other
night. So, at least, thinks ,Dom-
an uho hears some pretty choice
things by keeping her ears open
betDeen the acts. What she heard
on this occasion pas the tolloWing::
Eyes, I'm going ouer for the coro-
nation. / Uant the children to see
it. There probably neuer UiH be
another coronation in the Dorld
the 1ody things are going and
1Uant them to see one so they cdn
tell their grandchildren about it."
LUCK.
THAT tan which Bill Owens sports
these days is a freak of luck.
Having five minutes to kill on GER
tain recent day IL New York, he
dropped in to see Fred Robbins, the
man who gets jobs for musicians.
Fred was busy on the phone, but he
interrupted the conversation long
enough to ask Bill if he was working
at the moment.
I've got job, but I'm not working
for the next two weeks" Owens ex-
planned, wondering what it was all
about. Fred did not explain until
after he had turned back to the tele-
phone and remarked:
Sure, I'll have him on board to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock"
The next morning at 10 Owens
sailed on a liner bound for Havana,
not merely with all expenses paid, but
with a salary to boot.
BRING -EM-BACK ALIVE.
! A LOT of Cubans smiled in vain
into the lens of John CasWells
movie camera on his recent vacation
in the land of sugar and senoritas.
1t was Mr.. Caswells idea to sort OF
catch the island republic of guard and
bring Havana home with him In un-
retouched celluloid
For whole week, when he was not
doing other things, Mr. Caswell was
out shooting" Cubans at their
variously interesting activities.
He came home feeling pretty happy
over the whole thing. Felt that way,
indeed, until last Saturday morning
when he opened the camera to find
that he had forgotten to put film in
the darned thing.
NATURALS.
IF YOU ever see Art Brown, the
radio man, wearing a long face,
he probably is feeling sad about the
fact that the adults of today are the
boys and girls of yesterday. 1t is Arts
idea that if people never grew up
in this world, they all would be good
radio performers. ct may be some
one else's idea that that is good idea
because then every one could perform
on the radio and no one would have
to listen to it,
At any rate, he never has worked
with child who had mike fright"
And he never has worked with an
adult who didn't.
He has there q pretty practical
reason for liking children.
AUTHORITY.
A husband and -Uite combind-
ton 10aS bound for Dery late party
on Saturday night. The Wite was
doing the driving and When they
arriued the only available parking
space inuolued backing smack
against the bumper OF another cdr.
"You can't do that" said the
husband. "Thdt chap can't get
out" ------
"It's much too late for him to
be going out, dny1Ddy," said the