The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-19
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
By Louis SObOl-
SNAPSHOTS at Random!

BY Louis SObOI-
Snapshots at Random!
Loretta Young in flowing chif-
fon, rainbow-hued, floats in the
arms of Gregory Mangin at the
Stork Thursday night Taller
but simpler dressed is the heiress
Gloria Baker .. Her escorts must
adhere to one rule Wherever
they 60 they must ride in her car
piloted by a husky chauffeur,
guarded by a huskier private de-
tective Less guarded are
Georges Metaxa and his bride OF
the Macfadden clan who lure the
admiration of Jesse Livermore as
they twist through a rhumba
Douglas Fairbanks and his Lady
Ashley stir little interest at the
Rainbow Room Wednesday night,
guesting the Basil Blocks of Lon.
don-less, in fact, than the old
time silent screen favorite, Carlyle
Blackwell, whose flouriShing name
is streaked Silvery {. . AT the
Hickory House, Jack Mills reports
that Lupe Velez will succeed Bee
Lille when the latter leaves the
cast of The Show Is On" June l
Jock Whitney, his bride and
David Selznick huddle at "21"
discussing the sequel to "A Star
Is Born" which Ben Hecht is
readying lat $500 per wk.) -.
At another table Betty LawfOrd
and Ted Husing yawn-but not
at each other Benay Venuta
enters with her medicO husband
and Playwright Philip Barry
sits in a corner with a vacant
expression decorating his not
unhandSOme pan. Tuesday
mite at the Plaza'S Persian
Room finds the Peter b. A. Wild
eners dinner companions OF
Jerome Napoleon BOnaparte
and ROdman Wanamaker {.
In Morocco Evelyn Gresham,
publicized object of the Vallee
fist fight, insists all she wants
is a career-nOt publicity {.
Handsome wench. Odd chap,
the man who calls himself The
Wandering Jew You flnd
him usually exhOrting crowds
in Columbus Circle-pieading
with them to renOunce war q.
His two assistants, as he, wear
black skull caps and carry
Torahs His real mOniker
is Jacob Goldstein and he advO-
Gates November 18th as q Day
of Universal Prayer-tO prevent
all wars.
The Frolics Club continues Il
lure the merrymakers Tuesda!
night found Ethel Norman squiree
again by Wally Annenberg VIII
Lee Shubert, rare mite spot visi
tor, accompanied by Harry Kaut
man At another table, pro
Queer Bryan Foy and Directol
Roy Mack At the Versatile:
Wednesday night, Nick Prounii
asks Abe Lyman what he thought
of the Coronation "LongeSt
piece of dialect ever heard on tn
air." says the bandleader."
Tanya Stamina is hostess to ar
interesting group in the Hote
Ambassador Gardens Thursday
night-one man and four womer
illustrator Rockwell Kent ano
Margalo Gilmore. Beatrice Lille
Princess Llama Goltzin and Ilks
Chase In the Savoy Plaza.
cafe lounge, Monday night, Score
tary OF War Woodring and hi!
wife share cocktails with the
Princess Sherbatovsky and thu
Lucius Boomers here again
we find Gloria Baker-with Pau
Brucroft, jr. as her dancing part
ner.
Lament all along Broadway tina
the coronation has lured the SO
called glamour people to Londol
E. well make up for it, )" is Leol
Enken's observation as he shudder
when a waiter drops tray o
dishes near him at Leon & Eddie
Thursday nite-"We'll be putting
up the ropes when the World Fai
opens" The frat boys goinl
through their initiation Salty nit
march down Broadway dresSe'
as burlesque queens, bearing
signs: Bring Back BurleSque."
Wherever you 60 now, the con-
tagius Johnny One-NOte" blasts
out Promises to become
another "Music Goes Round"
etc. Tuesday night at 9Th
Ave. and 49th St., a taxi-driver
reading a copy Of Town and
Country by the light coming
from the barbershOp >. Edw. G..
Robinson behind a black cigar
exits from the HippOdrOme
Wednesday night-SmOkeS 10
cigars a day. 2 packs Of cigar
etteS-and half a dozen pipes.
The bearded man three seat
away from us at the opening G
Captains Courageous" who KEEP
dabbing his wife's eyes with hi
handkerchief and muttering: "Fo
Heavens sake, stop that blubbel