The Washington times., 1937-02-04
THE VOICE OF
Broad way
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Diary Of a CoIyumist's
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out little leaves on the rose bushes
on the terrace and today she
comes in scrNaming-"The hedges,
the hedges
He gets scared to death until
he catches on that the hedges are
getting leaves, too. The Queen Is
very panicky because she says the
first frost comes along, it will kill
the plants. and he says: Put ice
around the roots and that will cool
them off which is an idea he
got. he tells her, from seeing in
a newsreel how they put ice
around the orange trees when it's
too warm out of season.
Later at breakfast he tells
her that he has just heard Fan
ME Todd Mitchell has gone to
Reno, where she is getting a
divorce from Leon LeOnidoff,
who is one of the big production
executives at Radio City Music
HalI-but the Queen by this
time has new worries because
Jerry, the canary, is refusing to
take a bath.
They worry about everything
that isn't important in this house
but no one pays much attention
to me. Especially BibSie, who will
get plenty of air from me if she
does climb out of that refrigerator
she's built around herself.
ThurSday-He'S reading a piece
in a magazine called Sports" in
which someone named Nal Stew
ems who, its seems, has something
to do with coaching, writes that
marriage is a good thing for ath-
leteS and points out that Max
Schmeling became better fighter
after he got married and that
Johnny Weissmuller is twice as
good a swimmer as he was before,
maybe because he's been married
twice, and there's a picture show
ing how Joe Louis knocks out Max
Baer on the night he's married.
The lady says: That's a silly
article. Anybody with sense knows
that no man ever amounted to
anything until he had wife. He
didn't need to stick to athletics
the best writers are married men
because wife is source Of con-
slant inspiration" Well, he let's
out roar and giggleS until I think
he's surely bats because he's such
a SourpuSS you never see him
laugh at anything, but this strikes
him funny, guess.
Friday-He gets wire telling
him that an Ernest Simpson has
booked passage on a ship, the
Washington, leaving London and
that when he gets to America he's
leaving right away for Mexico.
IF that's the Ernest Simpson,
then there's something behind his
suddenly coming here and then 60
ing to Mexico and I've got to find
out what it's all about" he says.
And the Queen says: You don't
suppose he's going to Mexico to
get a divorce so it'll make it easier
for Mrs. Simpson," And he says:
"No, don't think it'll make much
difference if the Bishop decides
that the London divorce doesn't
hold"
He also says that Horace
Dodge left for England, sud
denly, the other day and that
Mickey Devine sailed on the
same boat, which may mean
that this time they'll probably
become Mister and MisSus, if
Dodge gets himself clear of his
present wife, from whom he's
separated. All he does today is
look at little notes he has Scrib-
bled in a book and read them
out. That's a habit of his.
"LuciuS Beebe," he says, sis on
the way to the Coast to spend
some time as a guest of Libby
Holman in Palm Springs. Ducky
Sloan and Bobby Carmichael
are pretty set for the altar. That
little romance between Earl
Carroll and June Lang didn't
mean a thing, / find out now,
and it's still Beryl Wallace, as
far as he's concerned"
Saturday-Loose-Mouth has been
to a fight between a colored boy
named Louis and a white boy
named Pastor and it SENS it was
more like a track meet or some
thing. "Braddock or Baer or
Schmeling could have killed both
Of them" he squawks. "It was
grand larceny to take $1650 from
customers who came to see a
fight" and the Queen says: How
much did you lose, darling?" and
he says, well, I took the short
end of a 10 to l bet from Jimmy
Kelly and I'll pay up and he can
hand it to the Red Cross because
it ought to hurt his conscience to
take my money with the kind of
fight that Louis put up"
The Lady says: Have you
heard any more about what
Broadway is doing for the
flood" and he says: eyes,
they're all coming through. The
HOllywOOd's running a special
night Thursday and is going to
donate the entire gross. Leon
and Eddie's is going to give so
per cent of Wednesday nights
take. Jimmy Kelly is running
a special night Sunday and is
going to give practically every
thing taken in. Jack and Char
lies are arranging something
special-they're getting up a
big collection at Joe Zelli's.
They're all coming through and
the stars are sending in heavy
checks hut the SMelIeSt raStura