The Washington times., 1937-05-20
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
BY Louis SObOl-
Diary Of q COIyumist's
Pup!
N'Whiskey' hisses-and
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AREN'T. NO, I'm not IhCe1y W
cause there is no pep in them"
He hits the ceiling and shouts,
How can you put pep in them
with everybody in Hollywood or IN
England and the mite clubs most
of them empty and the walters
waiting on each otherp I'm no
miracle man." The Lady says,
"Well, I manage to see plenty OF
folks the few times you take me
out with you," and he says, VINO,
for instance?" and she says, wei,
Myrna Low and Helen .VinSon and
Edward G. Robinson and Ben
Bernie and the Douglas Fair
bankseS and Junior Laemmle-my
goodness, the towns teeming with
people that you could write about"
"They won't be here long" he
SAYS. "EverybOdy's deserving
Broadway. Sophie fuckers buy.
ing q home in Hollywood and
plans to spend most Of her time
on the Coast. Ben Bernie, TOO.
Gertrude Niesen is building .
home there, Eddie Cantor Is get
ting rid of all ihS holdings here,
Jack Benny spends about nine
months q year there and now
there's talk that Lou HOtz Is
going out thereto stay. Vim
cent Lopez is in HOllywOod-tne
LOmbardOs are preparing TO go
Out-nObOdy seems to want 70
stay here"
"Don't be silly" says the Queen,
bee Lilies here, Bert Lahr's here,
Abe Lyman, Benny Fields, Benay
Venuta, Belle Baker, Nancy Car
roll-millions Of people" zone
gets you 15Ka that by the fall, most
Of them will be on the Coast
laments Droop- Chin.
Wednesday-Grumpo was at
Jack Whites last mite and got
talking to some people who live
in different parts Of the world and
he tells the Queen at last he's met
some interesting people. News
papermen, no doubt" she purrs
and he losses her the eye-ice and
says: They're businessmen. One
is Ashworth of Nairobi, Africa.
Another one was E. H. Fitz OF
East London, South Africa. Then
there was j. M. Barrera Of Mexico
City, D. R. Wadia Of Bombay
India, DR.. Riheriero Of Rio de
Janeiro and S. Lubin Of Tel Aviv'
Palestine"
"What are they doing here?"
the Lady wants to know and Brain
Leak says, They're radio men and
what amused me is they were all
worn out because Broadway was
too exciting-get that-BroadWay
exciting! That's rich!"
There you see.' says the Queen.
cts all a state of mind"
Thursday: IT was thinking
about all those interesting men
who live in such interesting
places" murmurs the Queen. "and
I'VE changed my plans" What
plans?" asks Drizzle-Pan, and she
says, my trip. have decided 1t
would be a shame to waste all
those months in just italy and
France so have decided to go to
Egypt and Africa and "Switzer-
land, too" oh" he snarls,
you have decided that, have you?
why not Palestine and Portugal
and the North Pole?" And She
purrs, 20 those places, too-except
the North Pole. What would I
want to go to the North Pole
for silly?"
ooh, for nothing, I guess" he
explodes, except maybe you can
find some new way to spend
money there which I haven't got.
You should have married q sea
captain" And the Queen signs,
ut would have been heavily"
"Then listen in to the broad
cast Of q couple Of fellows named
Merrill and Lambie who have
just flown back across the ocean,"
and MeaIy.MOuth says: PLENTY
of mOxie there. Plenty" and she
says: "S0me men do such daring
things" "Oh," he snaps,
"you would like for me to go. out
In . drench like today and just
fly around like q bat so ] can
be brave" and the Queen giggleS
and says: 81 think it would be so
Cute-yOu in an aviation suit,
posing for the newsreel men,"
and he gives her q grOwI and
stops talking to her.
Friday: They went up to Gros.
singers with Abe Lyman, Nick
Kenny and Mack Millar and Dys-
pepsia broke two clubs on the golf
course and gave it up. So he went
to Ross Sobel who is the ProfeS-
sional up there but not a relative
and took some lessons. IT have
decided" he says when he gets
home tonite, ''to give up this crazy
game. I'm going to take up target
practice-there'S more comfort in
It,"
II saw Mack Newman" says
the Queen to change the subject,
and he told me to tell you he
has . word for 1t when q lady
asks for alimOny when she's get
ting q divOrce-he says It should
be called incOmepatability.'"
Saturday: LooSe-Lips re-
marks that Ward Morehouse is
planning to fly to the Coast-just