The Washington times., 1937-02-01
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
BY Louis SObOl-
Weekend Fragments! !

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Weekend Fragments!
Earl Carroll and June Lang are
startling Hollywood these days
with Vic OrSatti and Junior
Laemmle in the discard. Jack
Kirkland and his brand-new bride,
still in the fervent honeymoon
stage, are planning a trip around
the world. >. The Thelma Leeds
Parkyakarkus alliance started as
a studio publicity blaze-but the
flame consumed them Irony:
Paul YaWitz, who used to needle
K. Hepburn when he was colum-
mist here, has been assigned to
turn out her next vehicle at R-K-O.
A Love Like That" The
Alice Faye-Tony Martin romanti-
cutups are beginning to go blah.
Description of Kate Smith:
Three Smart Girls" Which
reminds me, Messrs. Rodgers and
Hart are negotiating with Uni
versal for a temporary release of
startling Deanna Durbin to shove
her into the lead role Of their
forthcoming musical, Babes in
Arms" which will also feature
Mitzi Green.
The Emil NewmanS Eve Far
relD will join the pram pusherS.
DolI-face Anita Louise and
George Brent are still in the
W. k. fog. Ditto Everett Free
man (Sat. Eve. Post writer) and
HortenSe Miller. The effects
Of the late David Freedman are
being grabbed up at the auction
now being conducted - but the
widow is holding on to his famed
gag collection. =. Henry Young
man, Yacht Club clown, lamentS
that most of his girl friends are
giving him a Standup strike.
Joe Rivkin, Hal Roach's casting
director, is torching for Leah Ray,
the chanteuse DR.. James Stot-
ter, plastic surgeon, wires an offer
of beaucoup doremi for an ear
a mans left ear-to be trans
planted to patient who lost his
in an auto crash The Casey
RobinSons Che wrote the script for
Kay Francis Give Me Your
Heart'O are due for an herring e.
The English colony currently in
Manhattan has gone heavily for
poker The players usually are
John Gielgud, Gertrude Lawrence,
Evelyn Laye, Frank Lawton,
Gladys Cooper, Reginald Gardiner.
Brian Aherne and a few bloody
Americans including Gloria Swan
son and the Lawrence Tibbetts =.
The game is held on Wednesday
nights at the apartment of Evelyn
Laye and Frank Lawton 1t is
dealers choice with seven-card
stud the favorite-and the limit
SIS When all assemble, there
are two tables.
Joe Penner has signed a life
time contract with the Rev. Hal
Raynor of the Glendora EpiScO-
palian Church in California
. The clergyman writes all of
Penner's song sillieS. .Zelli'S,
as you may have read before,
now runs ancient Chaplin one
and twO-reelerS while the dane
ing is on each evening. One
gal, the other night, purTed,
"GOsh, they're crude. How
could anybody sit through them
much less pay money for
them?" 81 guess" retOrted
her escort. "Only Chaplin runs
them off these days-On his
yacht" The Paul (VeIma
Forrest) vawitzes are building
in San Fernando Valley-caIl-
ing +h~'r shack Yawitz End!
Desrite contrary rumors,
Rob Alvarado is still Rinnie
Barnes 2 o'clock man Sylvia
Sidney, in an interview. 81 have
never eaten bread and butter"
=. No? Then what's she work
ing for?. "Coronet." which
rIedPed jtsAlf not to accent ads,
is reported weakening-now
that the circulation has scared.
Gene Towne and Betty Brown
(his fraW are in town. Gene is
Walter Wanger's writing ace Chis
latest is You Only Live Once"D
and with his writing partner. Ora
ham. is said to have been the in
spiration for the mad scenarists
around whom Boy Meets Girl"
was written. Also in town is
Lennie Fields, now directing some
scenes here for Republics Frances
Langford-Phil Regan picture.
aside to Jimmie Fidler, ThanxD
Borrah Minevitch's cousin,
Phil, the ork pilot at the May
flower, elopes with Ruth Werner
of Washington. Feb. 81. Jane
Eichelberger, Weldon Heyburn's
society bride, will have the lead
in I'm Gold We Trust She will
be programmed as Judith Barry
Ben ,3ernie's sister, Rose now
operates a milk farm right in the
city here-the gels walk around
! in WOOlen ShOrtieS on an outdoor