The Washington times., 1937-02-27
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
BY Louis SObOI-
Casual Comment!

"A
There is no doubt that the news
cameraman is the most persistent
and hardest working member OF
the newspaper craft. He has no
fear, nor for that matter, any re-
gard for conventions or for what
YOU might consider your personal
privacy. His job is to get pictures
and he gets them-with or with
out dresses pulled up to the knee
>. Don't ever get in wrong with
a cameraman. He can make that
internal contraption knead your
handsome pan into o m e h / n g
pretty awful...1 don't know
whether President Manuel Quezon
of the Philippines has much re-
gard for cameramen, but the other
night he was at LaRue'S with two
japanese diplomats and several
other people, including three body
guards. One stationed himself at
the door.
When a flock of local lenshounds
arrived, he barred their entrance
:. You can't do that to u.s." they
said. I'VE have a right to enter"
=. Politely, but firmly, the guy
said: You can't come in to take
pictures of the President-scram"
Said one of the cameramen:
Listen, buddy, there's no law
which can bar us from coming
in like any other customer and
getting a drink at the bar. If you
stop us, we'll call a cop and have
you arrested. They had him
there-so, reluctantly, he let them
in. They proceeded Immediately
to Quezon's table, but he raised a
hand in protest. E. II would not
like to have you take my picture, !"
he said. This time, 1t was the
cameramen who were stumped
Because. by peculiar quirk of the
law, your face belongs to you
when you're in a night club or at
a private party.
Mark HelIinger has achieved
something of a reputation for
taking the short end of wagers
and usually coping Sun
day night at Abe Lyman'S guest
night at the New Yorker, when
he started to check his hat, the
cOncesSiOnaire, who didn't rec
OgniZe him, halted him
"'SnO use, mister" he said
'The place is jammed. You can't
get a table" "Oh, 1 can get
in," said the paragrapher, easily
"Betcha five you can't"
snapped the hat-check man
Make it six to five and you're
on" pleaded Hellinger The
bet was made :. The cOlumnist
was ushered in with a great deal
of ceremony by Headwaiter Max
while the hat-checker'S face fell
;. Hellinger collected his bet,
gave him a dollar for q tip and
used the other five for q tip to
the waiter
In compiling statistics among
the girls in Billy Minsky's Repub
lie Theater, it was revealed that
Bobbie Foster, a dancer, is a di
rect descendant of Jefferson Davis
. Agnes Dean, "stripper," was
separated from a baby sister. when
two years old, whom she and hel
mother have been endeavoring tc
locate since Betty Jane Row
land, another "stripper." is a sis
ter of Rozelle Rowland, who will
shortly wed Belgium's richeSt
man, Baron Empain Patricia
Willis, dancer, was raised at the
Sisters of Mercy Convent Lin
da King, dancer, is the daugh
ter OF a minister A Mis-!
frankie Red Moore claims she i!
the third cousin of former PreSi
dent Of the United States.
Beatrice Lille lost a six.kara'
diamond ring in one of the better
spots the other night The Rit,
Brothers, who year ago playec
engagements at $3.50 a week, viii
draw $4,000 in their Boston anc
other engagementS-pluS a per
centage Nancy Sewall anC
Baron Observation-Disclosures ar,
saying it in three languages
The merger of Mrs. Nathan Blu,
kan widow of the lawyer ant
, DR.. Maxwell Maltz is only a mat
ter Of months now Everett
Freeman and Phil Rapp, who uset
to work for the late David Freed
man, are now collaborating OF
play about him When tn,
Fred LewiSohns reach the fina
divide, ntimateS insist, he'll wee
Adele Van Rensselaer,.
Barbara Field, the SOciaIOOker,
and Anthony Bliss, son of Cor.
nelius Bliss, are heading toward
+ a marital mood Report is
\ that ex-Justice Jonah GOldStein
:. may succeed Sol ROsenblOom as
mediator in the cloak and suit
, industry tits .. The two sissies
who gulped half a dozen cOkes
= between them at the St. MOritz'
Y Cafe de la Paix the other night
: were George Raft and Jackie
COOgans