The Washington times., 1937-02-13

Lucy Saunders, one of the better
stockholders, are enchanted. 1
like this sign at the backstage
entrance of Minsky'S Oriental:
"Stagedoor JohnnieS will kindly
use the front entrance"!!. . Inter
play romance: Joan Adrian OF
The Women" and Martin Gabel
(Who was Babyface in Dead
EndD >. The average Broadway
ite, says Charlie Lucas, is always
ready to give you a hand-with
the thumb to his nose!
Observation by Shep Fields:
An angle is the shortest dis
tance between a press agent
and a news break!
Another aftermath of the CLUB
Bali pajamanical interlude is a
movement sponsored by John
Ward of the better set. Together
with others, he is forming a So
called Save Society" club which
will be composed of society boys
and men as well as sub debs, debs
and matronS whose main purpose
will be to keep out of the head
lines. "Play-boys" of the flagrant
type will be oStraCiSed in order to
keep clean the name of noted
New York society families of the
400"
A program against the colum-
nists!
IrOnies in the news: Sit-down
strikes spread Hosea RiSley,
of Pleasantville, N. j., dies of a
heart ailment which has forced
him to remain seated most of
his life. Robert Turner, stunt
driver, is seriously injured while
performing in a flOOd-benefit
show Drunken driver crashes
on Long Island road, but he and
four companions escape without
a scratch. Five youths leave
mansions of parents and strike
because they were told to go to
bed Residents of Portsmouth,
Ohio, return to homes to. find
their beds ruined by the flood
E.. AT st. Jean de Mont, police
are concerned over the death by
drowning of n Spaniard - the
second Spaniard in a month
whose body has been found in
the waters. General Jose Mi
ala announces that $4,000 Span
ish rebels were killed in the
siege of Madrid alone EMO
FiermOnte, ex-pugilist, is high
up in the list of the 16 best
dressed men in America. . Gang
guns riddle the Shabbily clad
body of Ex-Pugilist Harry Hal
perrin.
Jimmy Kelly advises he wired
Matthew Spangler oldest Of the
13 starving children recently IN
the news) offering him a job as
a bus boy-but hasn't received an
acceptance to date -. Marion
Martin, the HollyWood's glorified
lovely, will shortly embark on an
air program, presenting beauty
advice. Jack Lee, Louis PrlmaS
manager, and Jeanette Dickson
are a secret combine. Howard
Lang, whose merger with Gwen
Heller exploded after a month, is
now planning a June jaunt to the
justice with ViCky AStlett, Arizona
deb. Elmer Leterman leaves for
Honolulu on self-imposed exile
He and his bride will occupy
the mansion two houses away
from the CromWell-Duke estate.
When she was singing over a
local station a year or more
ago, Dorothy LamOur was pub
IiciZed as the girl with the
"mOSt beautiful skin" In an
interview she was quoted as
saying: "If woman wants to
get anywhere in show business,
she must take good care of her
skin. How can anyone hope to
become a movie star, for in
stance, without a clear, ivory
like, rOse-petal complexion"
Miss LamOur is now Para
mount startling. In her first
picture, jungle Princess" she
plays the featured rOIe-a
brOwn-skinned Malay female
TarZan!
w. Forbes Morgan, treasurer
of the Democratic National Com.
mittee, who at the time the re-
port was printed denied en-
phatically that he would accept
the position of czar Of the liquor
industry, has evidently changed
his mind, and within a day or
two will officially announce his
acceptance as the Will Hays of
hOOch. AS matter of fact, the
March of Time cameramen are
currently preparing their film
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