The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-29
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
BY Louis SObOl-
Weekend Odd-Ends!

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Weekend Odd-Ends!
To quiet the rumors, Lee
Horne, pretty bride Of Producer
Hal Horne, of the Walter Wanger
outfit, will leave shortly to join her
husband on the Coast Secretly
merged-but denying it-are pull
chritudinous Nora Gale, Of the
Hollywood, and Ned Stewart .
The team of Weber and Fields is
to be reunited Joe Weber leaves
for the Coast May to rejoin Lew
Fields In a picture to be built
around the two Critic Gil
Gabriel leaves for the Coast within
a few days for a 10 weeks assign
ment with Paramount. Gay do
ings wednesday night at the 212th
Armory when the lads Of town in
fancy costume bowled their heads
off in feverish competiSh.
Goodman Ace limited to friend
that he would like to get some
singer who would be willing to sing
eight bars of "Otchi Chernya" on
the Easy Aces program Tuesday
night. For about Is bucks" he
said. The friend who is a singer
said he would be glad to help out
gratuitously and on Tuesday night
it. was his voice that sang eight
bars of the Russian song. The fol-
lowing day the William Morris Of
flee called and asked Ace for the
name of the unknown singer. His
voice sounded as if it had posSibi-
lities and they would like to sign
the fellow. tits a waste of time, y
said Ace. Hes already signed
The unknown was Benny Fields
already under contract with the
Morris agency.
Another reunion is that of Lew
Brown and Ray Henderson, who
not only are working on a play
together but will also do a picture
together. The reunion will be
signalized by a dinner in their
honor at Cafe Venezia, tonight.
Dorothy Gulman, the exploiter,
has written the Minnie the
Moocher satire which Josephine
Huston will feature when she
opens at the Versailles next
Thursday.
Joe Lewis has = story to end
all stories about the early
mOuntaineer marriages. 1t
seems the mountain lad took a
girl for q drive. When she re-
fused to neck, he Squawked:
"Then cit out and hike hOme!"
IT tan't," lithped the baby;
81 haint learned to walk yeti"
Dave Apollon, who leaves short
~ for his Universal assignment,
won't have his brother Joe with
him. Joe came to this country
some years ago from Russia-his
passage paid by the comic. He
refused to work, insisting he was
an inventor. Finally he invented
an absolutely unlockable, unbreak-
able lock for Jail cells. Unfortun-
Ately, it took six other inventors
two months to invent a way to
unlock the lock after it had been
tried on one cell. Dave was all
for sending Joe back to the old
country then. The final straw
came when he was playing in a
LoeWs theater with a picture
which union people decided was
unfair to organized labor. So
they started to picket the house
and business fell off. Dave,
walking out in front, found lead
ing the picketS, his own brother
Joe, whom he was supporting!
Joe left on the next boat with
$500 cash and seven of Apollon'S
best suits!
Success story: Alma Bray, Gig
arctic girl, three weeks ago-Strip
gal on a trapeze two weeks ago
today draws screen test for Para.
mount. The Basil Deans (he'S
!. the London producer and she's
Victoria Hopper are unwinding
For the first time since their
merger, Lillian Roth and Judge
Shalleck will be parted for several
months-when she leaves for Lon.
don in May to open in the music
halls. -
The other p. m. we ran a story
only to learn later it had appeared
few days previously in Irving
Hoffman's column in the Holly
wood Reporter. We called him up
to offer our abject apology. II
wouldn't feel too bad about it,"
said Hoffman, easily. After I ran
it, I learned it appeared in Whit
ney Bottoms column in the Tele-
graph three weeks ago."
The tops in irony: The death