The Washington times., 1937-03-31
THE VOICE OF
Broad WaY
BY Louis SObOI
SNAPSHOTS at Random! !

Helen Morgan, IN severe DlaCk
dress trimmed in white, looking
like convent girl, walls plaintive-
ly, "Why was I born-why am 1
living?" This is at Loew'S
State Friday night, and the loge
is studded with fellow walters, in
Guiding Wini Shaw, Howard Dietz
and his bride, Tanis Montagu,
Irving Hoffman and Mack Millar
Author Thyra Samter WinSloW
is first nighter at Warden LaWes'
"Chalked Out" at the Morosco.
Here for a brief furlough from
Hollywood assignments, Thyra con-
fides that after her divorce, Holly
wood is to be her permanent resi-
dence.
A grinning gent pauses at
Broadway and 49th Tuesday
afternoon to watch a scrap be-
tween two cabbies-Dale Car.
negie, author of "HOw to Win
Friends" etc. Saturday night,
doubling up with giggIes over the
Off-colOr salIies in eyes, My
Darling Daughter"-the gentle
man who keeps our movies clean
Will Hays!
Arm in arm, Friday night, two
young fellows in a quipping mood
as they study the cavorting fish on
the chewing gum sign across from
the AStor Sid Hatfield and H.
L. McCoy-their pappies and
grandpappies said 1t with bullets
in the Kentucky hills Stuart
Erwin and June Collyer at Jack
and Charles with Dick Watts, the
Trib critic, doing most of the lis
tening eli dollar bill for a
nickel-how bout it?" pleads a
pitchman at 48th and Broadway
:. But nobody Stops-or buys .. &.
A commentator and mayed exist
ing from Arthur Murray'S Tuesday
afternoon discuss one of the lesser
paragraphers "Hear he got a
nibble from Hollywood" "Of
what?" sneers the columnist-
"cheese?" Immaculate Paul
Lukas of the films pauses as he
turns into Swing Lane Monday
night to brush mud from his coat,
splashed by passing cab. "A few
seconds later, another cab repeats
but good.
Floyd Gibbons and Gloria
Swanson swing it on the dance
floor of the SavOy's Persian
Room Thursday night Mon
day afternoon at the Cafe
Lounge of the Savoy PIaza-an
unusual twOSOme-yOung John
Jacob AstOr and Hattie Car
negie, the dreSSmaker After
seven years as his star show girl,
starting when she was Is, Marion
Martin gently breaks the news
to Joe Moss at the Hollywood
Thursday night that she is Ieav-
ing, having signed with the Shu-
bertS to replace Gypsy Rose Lee
-. "SiIly girl" sighs Joe, "This
could have been life job"
Bee Lille, Reginald Gardiner
and Ted HuSing join Jack White
and Pat Harrington in the small
hours of Wednesday night at the
18 Club in an old-time vaude song
and-dance routine, while Charles
Macarthur, Helen Hayes and
Duke di Verdura yawn . In the
Waldorf-Astoria main lobby, al
most lost in the profusion of
spring Shrubbery and flowers, Fran
ces Maddux buried in ermine. re-
lateS her experiences in the Carib-
bean from where she's just re.
turned Novelist E. Phillips Op-
penheim studies the merry-makers
at Ell Morocco Saturday night
"It was worth while" he murmurS
Il have my setting for my next
book" At the Stork Club, Fri
day night Have you heard OF
Alma Clayburgh's new diet?"
"What?" mo water. no fish
no meat, no milk" Whats she
going to eat?" Nothing
nothing at all for 100 days is her
plan" -.
Flying trapezist Alma Bray at
MariO's Ell MiradOr cOnfeSSeS
that her daring act is a prelude
to bigger things. I'm think
ing next season Of being shot
out of a cannOn-my clothes fly
Off-and / land In the net with
out Q stitch on. GOOd-aint it?"