The Washington times., 1937-02-12
THE VOICE OF
Broadly WaV
BY Louis SObOl-
Casual Comment!

Let's consider the poor little
(and in most instances) underpaid
cabaret chorus girls. The bene-
fits their bosses make them play
night in and night out-Sometime
two and three night-ought to
entice some stringent law. AT
any rate, this department has a
suggestion which should make us
quite unpopular with the night
club owners. AS long as they in
sist on making these kids play
these various benefits" CASUALLY
for some group OF wine sellers or
petty politicianS), then let them
give each girl night off once a
week-with pay.
Poor misunderstood Jack Kirk
land with large display ads
screaming out the glad tidings that
his Tobacco Road is now in its
fourth year, elsewhere in the news
pages he lures attention in the
headlines because pretty Julie
Laird, his third bride, has left him
for Reno to unravel the tie that
binds Only week or so ago, in
Twenty-On With his arm around
his brand-n 7 wife, Jack 1ntl-
mated that they were to spend the
perfect honeymoon-a trip around
the world The answer to the
Broadway myStery-what'S become
of Rosemarie Dering?-iS an
swered, A letter from London ad-
vises that the pretty dancer has
been the bride Of Magician Morton
for 2 weeks now Jimmy Durante
has gone to all the pains and ex-
penSe of having teleflaSh con-
traption in his hotel suite giving
him instantaneous results Of the
races everywhere This service
is costly, and the giggle is Jimmy's
bets scarcely average SIS a race ..
A bow to an aStute Broadwayite
who landed in the hospital with a
fractured hip. Bored to diStrac-
ton, he had a quarter slot-machine
installed near his cot. The re-
suit? When he left, the quarters
deposited by friends, doctors, and
himself not only paid his entire
bill-but gave him a profit Of
almost $40.
Bitter irony, the sudden death
of Sam Shipman, For, after
years of struggle to climb back
into the limelight and reach the
gold-pots after earlier years of
nationwide fame, the playwright,
with his latest play Behind Red
Lights" running to heavy profits
weekly, bowed to Death instead
of Lady Luck whom he wooed so
ardently. He never knew where
he was born. He once wrote me:
MY parents took one look at my
pan and refused to register the
event Every 10 years I think
myself one year older" He wrote
his first play at the age of 12-
Justice" exposing political graft
He was arrested when the cur
tain dropped and almost landed
in Elmira on the charge Of preach
ing anarchy. . Thereafter, he said,
he never tried to crusade-just to
entertain .Goodby, Sam Ship
man! And remember me to David
Freedman!
In q wholesale art store the
other day, the buyer for a large
MidweStern hotel ordered flock
of framed pictures, selling at $11
each. "HOw does it happen"
$hn
|reOrdering on the So one you
used to buy?" Because" was
the answer, customers used to
take hem from the walls" Our
room rate is $3.50 a day, so it
usually left us so cents in the
hole. We hit upon an idea.
Now when a patron takes a pic
ture from the wall, he'll find the
blank space whitewaShed and
trimmed with a broad stripe Of
red, and in the center Of the
space in red paint he'll read:
"a Picture Has Been Taken from
This Wall The effect is amaZ-
ing. At any rate, we haven't
lost a picture Since-SO now we
can afford higher priced ones"
Three years ago, when Tom
Waring Fred's brother) and Yer
non Rickard, the tenor and
former Notre Dame baseball star,
were working in Chicago, they used
to have their coffee together and
finally worked out a song: Eve
ming Breeze" Shortly after,
they lost track of each other and
it was only a few days ago that
Tom Waring, reading here that
Rickard had opened at the Sap
phire Room, communicated wlL..
the singer. . He sent him a copy of
the song they had written (Which
Rickard had forgotten) words
and music, asked him to sign his
part of the contract and forwarded
him half an advance check :.
Evening Breeze" will be published
next week and Fred Warnings
band will be among the first to
play it.
Will Gordon, critic on the Morn
ing Telegraph, raised no objections
at the premiere of "Be So Kindly"
at the Little Theater Monday night
when an usher asked him would he
mind if lady were permitted to
sit in the extra seat which be-
longed to him but which had no
occupant . AT the conclusion of
the second act he turned to the
girl and said: What do you think