Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-03-11

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Manhattan Side-Show: Bob Bench
ley pausing by a theater mar
quee which is advertising his latest
movie short. and critically in
specting his photographs displayed
there Sylvia Sidney and Doug
las Montgomery lunching at the Al
gonquin. Katharine Carlisle toy
ing with Swedish hors d'oeuvres
at the Valhalla. A cute, but sad
eyed lass at the Edison Green Room
bar bemoaning her inability to land
a job in the theater. y. "My moth
er's so darned old-fashioned she
won't let me work for the Minskys,"
she complains bitterly. &. Francis
Lederer and Mango applauding at
the debut of Eva Ortega at Club
Guacho. Minor and Root, two OF
the towns better ballroom dancers,
walking along Fifth avenue out OF
step!
Short Story: She came to New
York from away out West at the
beginning of the fall. Her ambition
was to go on the stage and like so
many others, she had star dust IN
her eyes. Again, like so many 9TH
ers who come here similarly blind
ed, her purse was thin. Back home,
she'd worked in millinery shop.
Weary of tramping from agent to
agent, she got job making hats.
One of the shops customers is an
actress, somewhat well-known.
When the youngster learned her
identity, she had heart to heart
talk with her. At the conclusion
the actress asked her how much
she got and was told $35 week.
At that the actress wanted to know
if there wasn't another opening in
that shop. In the last five years
her earnings have averaged less
than SIS. The little girl from the
| West is plying her needle content
edly since back home her weekly
pay was $15.
Names and Events: Early this
year the manner of rooms-his iden-
tity seems to be closely guarded
secret-at the Hotel Montclair be-
slowed on the new banquet hall,
the title of 'Spanish Room" When
the decorators were about halfway
through with their work, the Span
ish civil war broke out and good
taste made such designation Ia
boo. Accordingly the room manner
decided to redecorate and call the
hall the ''King Edward VIII Room"
| And when the room was about fin
ished, King Edward abdicated. So
someone else took hand and sup
piled name, which pays uninten-
tional tribute to modern prophet
of coming events. It's now the
"Crystal Room"
Pet Peeves: Ripe olives. {. Long
winded commercial radio announce
ments. Latecomers in theaters.
4. -. Caulifower. !. !. Writing MAMA
roneck" or "Hamtramck" on the
typewriter. Bridge hand post
mortems. Theater hat checkers.
Red fingernails. Press agents
who try to wisecrack and don't
quite make it. Dirty post card
peddlers. Autoists who race their
motors as am passing. 4. Door
men who slam taxi doors when no
tips are forthcoming. Snooty
walters.
Single Tracks: There are many
specialists in New York. A big
downtown establishment handles
nothing but celery. There are stores
where only pork is sold and others
that deal solely in sausages. On
the Stock Exchange, there are OPP
orators in single lines of securities.
In the wholesale district, I spotted
a store that sells buttonholes. But
over on Ninth avenue, found a real
specialist. He deals only in garlic.
Yelling for Dear Life: Included
in the foregoing list should have
been Phyllis Bolce. She makes her
living screaming. AS federal thea
ter project player, she screams only
once a performance and for that
receives $23.87 a week. She has
earned $50 scream, however. That
was in Joan Crawford picture
of years ago. What with retakes and
| all, her screams brought her ST 900,
q Bell Syndicate.-WNU Service.