The Washington times., 1937-06-18
! THE VOICE OF
Broadway
BY Louis SObOl-
.PrattIe and attic!

dIlO dllIC'
The headlined "kissless or!de,'
Sylvia sirota, divorced from Pro
Queer Paul Berney (after the Judge
snubbed an annulment plea)
eloped again last wk. the new
groom being David j. Woloer
Henry Youngman. whose feuc
with Milton Berle is on thu level
now finds himself booked to oper
in the Palace in Chicago July 2
: as the vaudeville feature with the
picture New Faces" starring
Berle!. Radio Tenor Frank Par
ker's new honeychile Is Claire
Conover, Paradise showgel. Co
lumbias Joe Rivkin's newest gift
to zanuck's slave, Leah Ray, is q
riding crop topped with a solid
gold watch-Sign at Co1ey Island
Half Man, Half columnist
in a side-Show??
In the pianiSSiLn0 manner, the
former Mrs. Paul Forester, of
: the better set, has been Mrs.
4, Thomas Van DoIen for a fort
mite Glenn Pope, the mySti.
. fier, is working it alone at the
HollywOod-his pretty sister
" who used to stOoge for him be-
comes Mrs. Jack Frost shortly
(he'S the auto miIlionaire)
Lois De Fee claims Lew Brice
forgot to come through with
that settlement for the sock on
the nose.
Irony: The Standard Gravure
. Corporations louisville, KY cal
endar, which features a picture of
a different movie star each month,
had for its June page-Jean Har-
low! -. Gels in both the Paradise
and Hollywood restaurants have
been warned they will be dismissed
If they romance with members of
the orchestraS in their clubs
So the Hollywood babies are tax.
ing up with Paradise musicians
and vice versa Now that it's
crowded with those sidewalk pho
tographerS, how about re-tagging
it: "Photo-Second Street?" Di.
rector Wesley Ruggles is back in
town latter months on location in
Sun Valley turning out II Met Him
In Paris") IL lbs. heavier
Incidentally, the mag Bachelor
will feature shortly pictures of the
leading columnistS taken when
they were babies They'll have
to use a question mark for us!
Z Ruth ChattertOn's new dia-
mond bracelet is a lOve.geSture
{. of her current heart, Marquis
Tony d'P0rtaga What's this
: about the Richard Barthelmesses
3 1T was denied on the previous
? occasion Ewing Lanes new.
z est catch phraSe-"YOu're a
Solid Sender"-meaning you're
: the tops, you're terrific Also
= dump Me Around in Sugar,
Mercy"-Q'm getting high-Or
ObOy, ObOy, I'm in the clOudS!)
When rOtund Grocery Heir
Eddie Reeves tossed a party the
: other night, he shOOed the cigar
smokers away-"Keep off" he
yelled, "LOkka what happened
to the Hindenburg!" Al JOl-
son beat the nags for 80 gees
b. Saturday.
!. Pauline Louise dupont and Hugh
Mintern have cancelled it already
the engagement was announced
only last Friday. the Grover
'Whalens will home it at Versailles
this summer to be near the Paris
Exposition. incidentally, French
authorities have warned shop
keepers not to repeat their greedy
gestures of other years and to
charge reasonable prices-or
; therell be a law!. . Which won't
mean a thing, as Americans who
have been victimized in Paris be-
fore will tell you The Cobina
(, Wrights, ma and DIR, are both
being screen-tested. What's this.
: a gag? Adolph Schwart, conces-
sionaire of the mouse game at
! Palisades Amusement PIX. an
nounces his engagement to Isabel
Heating, whose pappy is one of
the bigger cheese mfrs! -. That
! loud noise you heard Sunday at
the Ambassador Gardens was no
explosion-merely two of the
shriekingest vests in town Sported
. by Brothers Ralph and Herbert
, Pulitzer-3 huge checks-two vel
low, one black. The new Riviera
is thefting most of the towns mite
biz. .
The McClelland Barclay-virginia
Moore merger, scheduled for next
month, has struck a snag Jack
,Waldron heads for the Trocadero
in Hollywood within the fortnite
(he's in Chi currently The
report is his estranged wife Har-
riet will join him there for a recon-
Citation incidentally, Edith
Roark will follow Waldron into
the Yacht Club in Chi Jim
Brady, son of the Wailin' Waller,
and Madelon Friel are June hope
fulS Tommy Nip. jr., dancer
at the Hollywood licensed EN-.
balmer as a side trade) and Betty
Gear, John Powers eyeful, are On
the Stove Mrs. Paul Yawitz
(Velma Forrest), flew in from the