The Washington times., 1937-01-06
KELLEYGRAMS

Progress of a fight: Battling
Kelley VS.. Kid Grippe. Kelley
Spars gently with the microbe.
The germ sends a tough right to
the head and K. wobbles. Another
right to the skull and K. is down.
He's up. He's down. He's up.
(Great day what a fight this isl.
He's down. There's the bell.
Kelley is dragged to his corner
and Handler Gwynn applies
quinine restoratives. After a
count of 3 (days) K. resumes
the battle, much fresher and hop
ing to last the winter. Tempera-
ture normal, pulse the same.
BELASCO IS CLOSED
The Belasco Theater is shut
tered temporarily. May resume
soon under a new policy utilizing
the stage.
DIPLOMATS IN BOXES
PRINCIPAL personages Of the Ger
man Embassy will constitute box
party at the premiere of Fred
erika," at the National Theater
Monday night (January I'D to en-
joy the story of an early romance
in the life of Germany's Eighteenth
Century giant of letters, Goethe.
Another distinguished box party,
given in honor of the composer Of
Merry Widow" fame, will be
headed by the official representa-
tive Of the waltz Kings home
land, Edgar Prochnik, Austrian
minister.
PEACE AT VARIETY
All members of the Variety Club
now speak to each other. The
last personal feud was ended on
Monday night when Carter Bar
ron was installed as Chief Barker
for 1897 So Loew's division man
ager now rules a peaceful cluo
family.
It happened this way. Abe
Lichtman and Sidney Lust, both
neighborhood movie tycoons, have
had a feud on for six years or
more. Rudy Berger, Of M-G-M,
and Joe Morgan were the peace
emissaries between the belliger-
ents. Both at first rejected the
olive branch. When an armistice
seemed impossible Joe Morgan
fished out of his billfold a copy
of a recent Kelleygrams. 1t told
of critics feud that was ended
recently, of how Rudy Vallee for
gave Jerry Wald, of Hollywood,
and urged Walter Winchell and
Ed Sullivan to make up.
Sidney Lust read it and yielded.
Mr.. Lichtman also. Soon they
shook hands and sealed a good
will agreement in a community
cup.
Does this make me eligible for
the Nobel Peace prize in 1887 or
sumfin?
$4,000 FOR CAPITOL
"After the Thin Man" will ring
up close to $4,000 for eight days
at the Capitol Theater by the time
1t checks out Thursday night. For
seven days it will be within few
hundred dollars of the Inaugural
ton week all-time record, set by
Amos m Andy in 1893. Only the
extra length of the picture and
the long stage show provided by
the French Casino Revue prevents
q record beyond dispute. Amos n
Andy did seven shows for two
days, six for the remainder of the
engagement, making possible fire.
quent show turnoverS. The cur
rent show can only be turned over
four times daily.
How to divide credit between
picture and stage show? I give the
picture 65 per cent, stage show
35. Warren O'Hara, company
manager of the Partisan Ooh-lala.
says 60-40 would be nearer cor
rect. Or even $3.50.
Against this is the fact that
Rudy Vallee, with bang-up revue,
had a hard time ringing up an
average week with a cold storage
picture called Sinner Take All"
To break records you have to have
balanced entertainment; j. e.,
good stage show, good picture.
LUISE RAINIER WINS
This looks like a Luise Rainer
year. She announced her engage
ment to Clifford OdetS, brilliant