The Washington times., 1937-04-14
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
By Louis SObOl-
Snapshots at Random!

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Ed Wynn in Reuben's early
Friday morning laments that in
spite of the six millions he has
made in radio and on the stage,
he is practically broke The
Government and an army of rela-
tives At another table, Phil
Baker commenting upon a notori-
Gus Broadway phoney, signs: mo
matter what you say, he'll leave
his heel-print on the sands OF
time!" At the st. Regis Mai
sonette Russo, Gloria Swanson
bushes a table-hummer chanting
along with Sylvia st. Claire
and then, in confusion, recog-
nizes the rebuked hummer
Grace Moore! Tuesday night
at the vegetarian restaurant Of
Ratner's on Delaney Street. :.
Colorful street-Delancey Its
SPRAYING broadneSS stretches
from the murk of the Brewery
east to the welcoming arms Of the
Williamsburg Bridge "A lively.
saucy wench, this broadway Of
the East Side with its side ar
teries of bustling ghetto life. >.
The neat little shops lining the
thoroughfare offer the fashions
of Fifth Avenue and Paris. AT
Fifth Avenue and Paris prices
(but you can bargain!".
Wednesday afternoon, Morris
Gest tries to persuade Lee Shu-
bert to accompany him to the Ma
tional Academy where Weynan
Adams portrait Of Gest is on ex-
hibition "A masterpiece"
shouts Gest, take my word for
it-a masterpiece"
william KOenig, Metro pro-
Queer, and his bride, have defin.
itely parted this time In let.
tiers to intimates here, Mrs.
KOenig hints the divorce is only
a matter Of . few days, after
which she will come to Manhat-
tan for permanent residence
=. Peaches Browning and her
groom, Bernie Hynes, are
reaching an amicable agree
ment, friends will tell you
Peaches, however, is reluctant
to admit It Before flying out
to be best man at the Dan Top
ping-Arline Judge elOpement,
John "ShipwreCk" Kelly placed
his wrist watch around Sherman
BillingSley'S wrist and begged
him not to take it off, awake or
asleep-until his return
Kelly had . premOnitiOn that
something would happen to the
plane carrying him to Reno
-. BillingSley has kept his word
but the watch won't be much
good when Kelly returns
The StOrk Club man forgot
and took q shower with the
ticker still on his wrist!
A photographer, humping acct
dentally against the table of a
handsome young couple, at the Kit
Kat Wednesday night, apologies
-. II want to shoot some society
people-excuse me" He walks
away from the Blue Books newest
romance-William Aston Dick and
Laura Smith Artist Arthur
William Brown and the dapper
Sport Ward have Gloria Swanson
as their gal friend at cocktails at
the Warwick's Raleigh room Mon
day afternoon Other artists dot
the room-Tony Sarg, McClelland
Barclay and Hal Phyfe =. Bugs
Baer and City Editor AlnSter Spiro,
nervous as freshmen at a senior
prom, play Spiro's newspaper
game, "Flash-News," at Macy's Sat
urday afternoon while hundreds
watch.
Stepin Fetchit, in huge colored
glasses, enters the Cotton Club
Tuesday night with half a dozen
bottles Of beer in a paper bag.
"Allus bring my own" he insists
-. Asked why he wears the tinted
glasses, he murmurs: "Ah' in.
co'nito" Friday afternoon,
Aviatrix Amy Mollison rusheS
breathless into the Savoy-Plaza
cocktail lounge Gust made q
solo flight from the autograph
pests Nightly at the Hickory
House, orchestra men assemble to
listen to q new swing sensation
Joe MARSHA The town still
seems swing mad At the Club
Yumuri bar, Monday night, a bored
gent surveys his gal with her ex.
ceSsive makeup and signs: Gee,
baby, if you were only as beautiful
as you look!"