The Washington times., 1937-02-10
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
-ByLOuiS SObOI-
Snapshots at Random !

husky gandarmes battle a per-
sistent but aggressive crowd, clubs
are torn from their hands, cab
doors wrested off and clothes rip
ped from backs as 1000 stayer-up-
perS fight for a chance to reach
Marlene Dietrich making her fran
tic exit, flanked by Clifton Webb
and Director Fritz Lang. Longs
monocle is smashed but he reaches
calmly into a vest pocket "a mir
acle in itself so closely does the
mob press around and fishes out
another single.eyeglass. La DE
trich finally manages to get IN
side a cab when Herman Stark,
standing with legs spread apart
like Colossus, urges her to stoop
down and crawl through the arcn
thus formed into the car. Inc
actress seems bewildered-hut also
thrilled $50 Wonderful-lSn I
itp' she exclaimes over and over
again. Previously, inside the cluo'
she and Webb dancing on the tloor
found themselves suddenly clrcleo
bv: the patrons and were torceo 10
aire what practically amounted 10
q s1lancing exhibition. In strange
contrast this to Thursday nlgnI'
u8sen Dietrich in long, flowing
green evening wrap leaned non
chalantly against the bar az
Twenty-One With Fritz Lang, com
paetely ignored by the other olneES
and cocktail sippers...
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Ted Husing's inspiratiOnal ap-
neal at the Hollywood Thursday
night lures $1,25O from the pa
fN0nS while Ethel Norman, BOD
fToDe. Rossini and others enter
tain AuctiOned kisses from
Bunny Waters, Marion Martln
And Ada Leonard bring SIS, and
one kiss from Ethel Norman
500 from Billy ROse-but the
romantic aftermath is that Air
and stage Star Frank Parker,
Who paid SIS to kiss statuesque
Bunny Waters, met her for the
first time this evening-and IS
now her ardent wOOer Tues
day night at the premiere OF
John Golden's "And Now
Good BY" with Marguerite
Churchill and Philip Merivale
IJOhn Anderson labelled 1t "A
Merivale of Tears" and Irving
hoffman dubbed it, "And Now,
Good.by Mr.. GOIden's ChipsD.
George OBrien sits far 'front.'
Studying his bride miss
ChurchilD on the stage ..
Monday night at the Paradise,
tall, lanky gel, towering over ner
dinlinutive partner as She
dances with him, removes her
sHupers to get down to his size
INT even in stockinged feet, the
thoughtful lass tops him by four
inches.
George Jessel parades up Broad
way toward Forty-seventh FRIDAY
night, filling his lungs with Broad
way air -. Jessel is directing
"Glory for ALL" from which Frank
Craven has withdrawn over
heard at one of the tables in Jack
and Charles wednesday night.
-. "Yep, it's all set. February
2lst-that's when they get mar
ried"-referring to Dan Topping
and. Airline Judge Fannie Hurst
and Edna F'erber (but not to-
gether) watch the unfolding OF the
cinemasterpiece, Good Earth" at
the Astor Tuesday night.
At the Versailles, J m m y
Savo, being introduced to Shep
Fields. shutters: '"The n-n-name's
.Jstj-iimmy," as they shake hands
c"Suppose," drawls Fields, Il
simply call you Jimmy for short" !"
At the st. Regis King Cole
Bar, where the photographers
are barred, Marion Snowden Ros-
piglfosi Reid in huShed tete-a-tete
with Brad Dresser.
Friday night, Maurice Evans
not only revives "King Richard
N' at the st. James Theater-
Int also the curtain speech
II apprecite the confidence Mr..
DOwIing and Mr.. Smith had in
me-" he falterS, because after
all, am just a foreigner.
Thursday afternoon in the one
armed lunchrOOm on 42nd be-
tween Broadway and 9Th, Wal
ter Hampden patiently beseecheS
The girl behind the counter not
to paste mayOnnaise on his tuna
fish sandwich.
The constantly exciting Sepian
nymph at the Harlem Uproar
House. a shapely Ginger (aptly
tagged who prances and twists
and comforts her shapely torso in
complete abandon to the delight
Of Caucasian patrons .. Louise
Rainier, fragile screen emoter,
hides behind five male escorts to
Illustrate as many newspaper
cameramen (but no sign Of Cliff
Odets) This was Thursday
night. Earlier at the Yacht
Club, dimply Mary Brian, squired
by Sonny Werblim and Nanny
SAKE, giggles as Henny Youngman
addresses her seriously: "They
gave me fifty dollars a week in
Hollywood and told me I could
pick up little extra now and
then but on fifty a week, I
couldn't pick up a single one.
At the Cafe Venizia, Monday
hight, the Three Racket Cheers
introduce community singing